Category: Communications/Media Studies

  • American Pop Culture Hides, Reveals Multiracial Asian-Americans Voice of America 2014-08-03 Jim Stevenson The discussion of race in the United States has always been complex and often difficult. Yet in an overwhelmingly large percentage of families, it is not difficult to find some evidence of a multiracial influence. LeiLani Nishime is assistant professor of communications…

  • Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach Oxford University Press 2014-08-01 528 pages 7-1/2 x 9-1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780199920013 Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach engages students in critical questions related to racial dynamics in the U.S. and around the world. Written in accessible,…

  • Explores how the trope of racial passing continues to serve as a touchstone for gauging public beliefs and anxieties about race in this multiracial era.

  • Mixed Mondays Film Series at the Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generatons Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street Brooklyn, New York 11201 Mondays, 2014-08-04 through  2014-08-18, 18:30 EDT (Local Time) Hosted by and post-screening discussion with: Erica Chito Childs, Professor of Sociology (author of Navigating Interracial Borders and Fade to Black and White: Interracial Images in…

  • This essay lauds the publication of the Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies, then turns immediately to argue that the journal must focus itself on actively becoming the authoritative voice on mixed-race matters, while also speaking out against naive colorblindness and premature declarations of postraciality. This is crucial because the public receives its information on…

  • Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial. Ralina L. Joseph. [Cannon] MELUS: Multi-Ethnic LIterature of the United States Volume 39, Issue 3 (Fall 2014) pages 207-209 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlu028 Sarita Cannon, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature San Francisco State University Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional…

  • Bill de Blasio and the Art of Political Image at… the Mermaid Parade The New York Times 2014-06-23 Vanessa Friedman, Chief Fashion Critic Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York with, from left, his son, Dante; his wife, Chirlane McCray; and his daughter, Chiara, at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade on Saturday. [Tina Fineberg/Associated Press]…

  • LeiLani Nishime explores the Asian American experience in her new book The Seattle Globalist 2014-03-25 Diane Han University of Washington We understand that race doesn’t exist biologically, but it doesn’t mean that race isn’t real. “We think we see race because it exists in the world, but really, we learn to see race,” says LeiLani…

  • Elliot Rodger’s half-white male privilege Salon Thusday, 2014-05-29 Joan Walsh, Editor at Large The killer’s Asian heritage matters. So does his ugly class entitlement. Misogyny crosses lines of race and culture The widespread recognition that Elliot Rodger’s killing spree was the tragic result of misogyny and male entitlement has been a little bit surprising, and…

  • Representations of mixed race Asian Americans in popular culture