Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Communications/Media Studies
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‘White House Down’ and Black Presidents on Screen The New York Times 2013-06-26 Mekado Murphy At one point in the action thriller “White House Down,” which opens June 28, the president of the United States, played by Jamie Foxx, is trying to thwart a paramilitary group that has overtaken the White House. After swapping his…
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Guest: The fury over a Cheerios ad and an interracial family The Seattle Times 2013-06-24 Ralina Joseph, Associate Professor of Communication University of Washington The response to a Cheerios TV ad exposes American discomfort with interracial families, writes guest columnist Ralina Joseph A RECENT Cheerios television ad has all of the elements that viewers usually…
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When Cars Assume Ethnic Identities The New York Times 2013-06-21 Glenn Collins Coming to a showroom near you for 2014: the first sport utility vehicle in its class equipped with a 9-speed automatic transmission. It’s also the first to offer a parallel-parking feature. And, in 4-wheel-drive models, the rear axle disconnects automatically, for fuel efficiency.…
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SoCal multiracial families create their own Cheerios ‘ads’ Multi-American: How immigrants are redefining ‘American’ in Southern California 89.3 KPCC: Southern California Public Radio 2013-06-06 Leslie Berestein Rojas, Immigration and Emerging Communities Reporter Call it a reaction to a reaction. A group of multiracial Southern Californians, happy to see a new Cheerios commercial featuring a mixed-race…
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Keeping our cholesterol and our expectations low By now, most readers of MixedRaceStudies.org and other race-related blogs and social media sites are well aware of the “Just Checking” commercial for the cereal brand Cheerios, a May 28 post on YouTube featuring an interracial family.
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Senior Interculturalist Profile: Dr. Stella Ting-Toomey Society of Intercultural Education, Training, & Research (SIETAR) Newsletter January 2002 4 pages Susan Rinderle Stella Ting-Toomey is probably the only person who seems surprised that she is considered one of the top figures in the intercultural communication field, dismissing deserved compliments with a simple, “I’m just doing my…