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  • Bicultural Identity Negotiation, Conflicts, and Intergroup Communication Strategies

    Bicultural Identity Negotiation, Conflicts, and Intergroup Communication Strategies Journal of Intercultural Communication Research Volume 42,  Issue 2, 2013 pages 112-134 DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2013.785973 Adrian Toomey California State University, Fullerton Tenzin Dorjee, Assistant Professor of Human Communications Studies California State University, Fullerton Stella Ting-Toomey, Professor of Human Communications Studies California State University, Fullerton This qualitative study explores…

  • This Is The Mixed-Race Cheerios Ad All The Idiots Are Complaining About

    This Is The Mixed-Race Cheerios Ad All The Idiots Are Complaining About Business Insider Advertising 2013-05-30 Judith Grey A new commercial for Cheerios featuring a mixed-race family has become a target for idiots on the internet. The anodyne spot features a Caucasian mother, an African-American father and their biracial daughter, but contains no overt messaging,…

  • Seeing Race in Modern America

    Seeing Race in Modern America University of North Carolina Press November 2013 Approx. 264 pages 6.125 x 9.25 10 color plates., 97 halftones, notes, index Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4696-1068-9 Matthew Pratt Guterl, Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies Brown University In this fiercely urgent book, Matthew Pratt Guterl focuses on how and why we come…

  • Dr. Ralina Joseph and Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial

    Dr. Ralina Joseph and Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial I Mix What I Like 2013-01-11 Jared A. Ball, Host and Associate Professor of Communication Studies Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland This is part one of our discussion with Dr. Ralina Joseph about her book, Transcending Blackness: From the New…

  • HIST 574–Modern U.S. History: Miscegenation, Mixed Race, and Interracial Relationships

    HIST 574–Modern U.S. History: Miscegenation, Mixed Race, and Interracial Relationships Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts Summer 2013 Ulli Ryder, Lecturer of History and Africana Studies This class will explore the conditions for and consequences of crossing racial boundaries in the United States. It will take a multidisciplinary approach, utilizing historical scholarship, literature, legal scholarship, and communication…

  • Notes on the Racial Contours of Visual Culture in São Paulo, Brazil

    Notes on the Racial Contours of Visual Culture in São Paulo, Brazil Flow Volume 17 (2012-12-18) Reighan Gillam, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan In this three part series of essays I will consider some of the aspects of race and visuality in Brazil. This article will lay out…

  • Selective Amnesia and Racial Transcendence in News Coverage of President Obama’s Inauguration

    Selective Amnesia and Racial Transcendence in News Coverage of President Obama’s Inauguration Quarterly Journal of Speech Volume 98, Issue 2, 2012 pages 178-202 DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2012.663499 Kristen Hoerl, Associate Professor of Communication Studies Butler University,  Indianapolis, Indiana The mainstream press frequently characterized the election of President Barack Obama the first African American US President as the realization…

  • Researching ethnicity, identity and ‘mixed-race’

    Researching ethnicity, identity and ‘mixed-race’ Social Science Research: Discussing Methods and Resources The British Library 2012-11-19 This post discusses our latest Myths and Realities event on ethnicity, identity and ‘mixed-race’ and points readers in the direction of some relevant British Library collections. On the evening of 13 November we hosted our latest Myths and Realities…

  • AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics

    AfroAsian Encounters is the first anthology to look at the mutual influence of and relationships between members of the African and Asian diasporas.

  • Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial [Gaither Review]

    Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial [Gaither Review] MXDWELL 2013-02-17 Renoir Gaither MXDWELL is a versatile online news source that celebrates and redefines the mixed experience by presenting a variety of cultural and artistic news, while promoting diversity as a vital aspect of our community. Behind her behemoth title, “Transcending…