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  • Review: Leilani Nishime’s Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture

    Review: Leilani Nishime’s Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture Slant 2014-02-03 Clayton Dillard, Staff Critic In 2003, The New York Times published an article entitled “Generation E.A.” which discussed the emergent role of multiracial people in advertising campaigns and concluded by suggesting that they’re an emerging racial category and a stepping-stone key to…

  • More Than “Black-ish”: Examining Representations of Biracial People

    More Than “Black-ish”: Examining Representations of Biracial People For Harriet 2014-11-08 Aphrodite Kocieda Being biracial can be an uncomfortable subject to talk about, especially because it highlights a sensitive history of colorism, racism, and favoritism within the Black community. The unapologetic presence of biracial people in contemporary media culture is beginning to spark questions about…

  • 241F Performances of Passing, Performances of Resistance

    241F Performances of Passing, Performances of Resistance Hamilton College, Clinton, New York Spring 2014 Yumi Pak, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies An examination of the historical practice of passing in the United States. While the practice has most commonly referred to the history of racial passing for light-skinned African Americans in the early…

  • The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century

    The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century New York University Press April 2014 256 pages 9 halftones and 7 tables Cloth ISBN: 9780814762899 Paper ISBN: 9780814770603 Catherine R. Squires, Associate Professor of Communication Studies University of Minnesota Despite claims from pundits and politicians that we now live in a post-racial America, people…

  • Seahawks’ Russell Wilson Controversy Shows Dangers of Racial Authenticity Tests

    Seahawks’ Russell Wilson Controversy Shows Dangers of Racial Authenticity Tests The American Prospect 2014-11-01 Kevin Cokley, Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology; Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin The ‘are you black enough?’ question is perilously close to the racist one-drop rule of yore—whether called by blacks or whites. Whether…

  • BSt 335U The Multi-Racial Experience

    BSt 335U The Multi-Racial Experience Portland State University Portland, Oregon 2014-2015 Explores what it means to identify oneself or be identified as multiracial/ethnic. Considers how social class, gender, race and other factors shape the multiracial experience. In addition, explores interracial relationship and the representation of multiracials in the media.

  • The End of Race As We Know It?

    The End of Race As We Know It? Stanford+Connects Stanford University 2014-10-09 Michele Elam, Professor of English Stanford University Sharing demographic shifts and a personal story about the use of her photograph in various advertisements, Professor Michele Elam traces multiracial identities from the 1940s to present day. In this talk, she explores how society understands…

  • Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial by Ralina L. Joseph (review) [Ardizzone]

    Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial by Ralina L. Joseph (review) [Ardizzone] African American Review Volume 46, Number 4, Winter 2013 pages 787-790 DOI: 10.1353/afa.2013.0105 Heidi Ardizzone, Assistant Professor of American Studies Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri Joseph, Ralina L., Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the…

  • Commercial music radio, race and identity in South Africa

    Commercial music radio, race and identity in South Africa Media Culture & Society Volume 36, Number 7 (October 2014) pages 901-915 DOI: 10.1177/0163443714536076 Tanja Estella Bosch University of Cape Town, South Africa In South Africa, listeners often believe that radio stations deliberately constitute their audiences in terms of race. This article further explores this notion…

  • Here’s Why Louis CK’s Kids Are White But Their Mother Is Black In ‘Louie’

    Here’s Why Louis CK’s Kids Are White But Their Mother Is Black In ‘Louie’ Business Insider 2014-09-18 Aly Weisman, Senior Editor There’s one mystery on FX show “Louie” that has never really been addressed. While Louie’s ex-wife “Janet” is played by black, Jamaican actress Susan Kelechi Watson, his two daughters are very white, very blonde…