Category: Videos

  • Mixed Feelings The Center for Asian American Media 1998 45 minutes, VHS Mikko Jokela, Director/Poducer Through interviews with five UC Berkeley students and teachers of mixed ethnic heritage, filmmaker Mikko Jokela illuminates the experience of what it is like to grow up part Asian in American society. His peers offer personal anecdotes detailing how their…

  • Dorothy Roberts: Bringing Different Perspectives into Class University of Pennsylvania Multimedia 2015-02-12 When Dorothy Roberts was 3 months old, she moved with her parents from Chicago to Liberia, where her mother, Iris, had worked as a young woman after leaving Jamaica. It was the first of Dorothy’s many trips abroad, and one during which her…

  • Katanga’s forgotten people FRANCE 24 2010-03-16 Marlène Rabaud Arnaud Zajtman Like many mixed-race children in Congo, they were born of a Japanese father who came to work in the mines of Katanga in south-east of the country. Today, they accuse their fathers of wanting to kill them so as not to leave behind any traces when…

  • The Children of Loving v. Virginia: Living at the Intersection of Law and Mixed-Race Identity Martin Luther King Jr. Day Special Lecture University of Michigan 2015-01-19 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History University of Michigan University of Michigan Law School Prof. Martha S. Jones, who codirects the Program in Race,…

  • The myth of race, debunked in 3 minutes Vox 2015-01-13 Jenée Desmond Harris You may know exactly what race you are, but how would you prove it if somebody disagreed with you? Jenée Desmond Harris explains. And for more on how race is a social construct, click here.

  • Poet Natasha Trethewey Explores Public and Personal Histories of Race in America The Aspen Institute 2015-01-13 Caroline Tory, Program Coordinator Aspen Words, Aspen Colorado On a recent winter night, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey addressed an Aspen Words audience in Aspen, CO, on the intersection between art and activism. “[I am] a poet interested not…

  • CMRS Mixed-Race Irish Film Keynote Links Mixed Roots Stories 2015-01-11 Zélie Asava, Lecturer and Joint-Programme Director of Video and Film Dundalk Institute of Technology, Louth, Ireland Following my keynote on mixed representations in contemporary Irish cinema and television at the 2014 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, here are some links to the films discussed… View all…

  • Section of Creative Media lecturer to speak at Global Mixed Race conference in Chicago Dundalk Institute of Technology Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland 2014-11-10 Kathryn Moley Communications Office Dundalk Institute of Technology is incredibly proud to announce that Joint Programme Director of Video and Film in the Institute, Zélie Asava, is travelling to Chicago, to participate…

  • Dr. Rebecca King O’Riain gives opening keynote address Maynooth University Maynooth University Department of Sociology Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland 2014-11-27 Dr. Rebecca King-O’Riain gave the opening keynote address on “mixed race, transconnectivity and the global imagination” at the critical mixed race studies conference on 13 November, 2014 at DePaul, University on Chicago, USA. Her talk…

  • Museum Offers Interactive Oral History of Mixed Race Brooklynites NY1 News New York, New York 2014-12-29 Jeanine Ramirez, Brooklyn Reporter A new interactive website offers an interracial, multi-ethnic view of Brookynites. NY1’s Jeanine Ramirez filed the following report. Deborah Schwartz clicks on the latest resource at the Brooklyn Historical Society, an oral history project about…