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  • Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century

    Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century W. W. Norton and Company April 2010 590 pages 6.2 × 9.3 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-93070-2 Hazel Rose Markus (Editor) Stanford University Paula M. L. Moya (Editor) Stanford University A collection of new essays, written by a team of interdisciplinary authors, that gives a comprehensive introduction to…

  • ART & DESIGN FACULTY – Shelleen Greene awarded IRE Faculty Diversity Research Award

    ART & DESIGN FACULTY – Shelleen Greene awarded IRE Faculty Diversity Research Award Peck School of The Arts News University of Wisconsin, Madison 2010-06-15 The award will allow Assistant Professor Shelleen Greene to complete her book project, Equivocal Subjects: Mixed-Race Identity in the Italian Cinema. The book examines the representation of mixed-race subjects of Italian…

  • What’s at stake in claims of “post-racial” media?

    What’s at stake in claims of “post-racial” media? FlowTV Department of Radio, Television, and Film at the University of Texas at Austin 2010-06-03 Mary C. Beltrán, Associate Professor of Media Studies University of Texas, Austin Tracy Morgan, comedic actor best known for his role as comedic performer Tracy Jordan on the NBC series 30 Rock…

  • Home on the Range: Kids, Visual Culture, and Cognitive Equity

    Home on the Range: Kids, Visual Culture, and Cognitive Equity Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies Volume 9, Number 2 (April 2009) pages 141-148 DOI: 10.1177/1532708608326606 Lorna Roth, Associate Professor of Communication Studies Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada This essay focuses on Binney and Smith’s creation and marketing of Crayola fleshtone art products from the late 1950s…

  • Marcia Dawkins to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Marcia Dawkins to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #153 – Marcia Dawkins When: Wednesday, 2010-05-19…

  • Changing the stereotypes

    Changing the stereotypes The Daily University of Washington 2010-02-25 Kristen Steenbeeke Sophomores Gabbie Duncalf and Fitsum Misgano were taking a class about mixed race when they first learned about the organization Mixed. After hearing that the group — which caters specifically to mixed-race students but is open to anyone — was lacking officers, they decided…

  • The Politics of Biracialism [Issue]

    The Politics of Biracialism [Issue] The Black Scholar Journal of Black Studies and Research Fall 2009 (2009-09-22) Volume 39, No. 3/4 Guest Editors: Laura Chrisman, Professor of English University of Washington Habiba Ibrahim, Assistant Professor of English University of Washington Ralina Joseph, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington Why a biracial issue, and why now? As…

  • Post-Race on America’s Next Top Model

    Post-Race on America’s Next Top Model International Communication Association, TBA 2007 Conference San Francisco, CA 2007-05-23 Ralina L. Joseph, Assistant Professor of Communications, American Ethnic Studies and Women Studies University of Washington African American supermodel Tyra Banks’s popular reality show for aspiring young models, America’s Next Top Model, both reflects and produces twenty-first century ideals…

  • Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America

    Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America State University of New York Press July 2007 295 pages Hardcover ISBN10: 0-7914-7099-7; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7099-2 Paperback ISBN10: 0-7914-7100-4; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7100-5 Catherine R. Squires, Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity and Equality University of Minnesota Explores contemporary news media coverage of multiracial people and identities. When modern…

  • Multiracial Identity in the Post-Civil Rights Era

    Multiracial Identity in the Post-Civil Rights Era Social Identities Volume 11, Issue 5 (September 2005) pages 531-549 DOI: 10.1080/13504630500408164 Gino Michael Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California This article, which utilizes personal experience as well as other perspectives and theories on race and mixed race, suggests that multiracial identity is…