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  • “Family Portrait in Black and White” Arrives on DVD

    “Family Portrait in Black and White” Arrives on DVD Interfilm Productions 2012-11-29 Julia Ivanova, Director Family Portrait in Black and White – Award Winning Documentary on Super-Foster Mom and her 16 Bi-racial Children Arrives on DVD December 4, 2012 On the heels of National Adoption Month comes a documentary that explores the growing pains of…

  • Dorothy E. Roberts: Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race [Vanderbilt University Lecture]

    Dorothy E. Roberts: Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race [Vanderbilt University Lecture] Vanderbilt News Vanderbilt University 2012-10-30 Watch video of Dorothy E. Roberts—recently named Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania—presenting “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race” based on her latest book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create…

  • Sneak peek at next ‘Black in America’

    Sneak peek at next ‘Black in America’ Cable News Network 2012-11-27 What makes someone black in America? Skin color? History? Culture? Soledad O’Brien reports on Sunday, December 9 at 8pm ET/PT.

  • In My Skin: Shaping the Multiracial Identity in Indiana

    In My Skin: Shaping the Multiracial Identity in Indiana Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana April 2012 18 pages Earl L. Harris A CREATIVE PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE MASTER OF ARTS This project takes viewers inside the lives of multiracial individuals in Indiana through a…

  • Who is Black in America? A Soledad O’Brien Report

    Who is Black in America? A Soledad O’Brien Report Cable News Network 2012-12-09, 20:00 EST Soledad O’Brien, Host Black in America is a documentary series reported by CNN’s Soledad O’Brien. In its fifth year, CNN’s Black in America takes a look at “Who is Black in America?” Soledad O’Brien follows two 17-year-olds, Becca Khalil and…

  • Left of Black S3:E10 | Who is Black in Multiracial America?

    American racial history was long framed by the notion of the “one drop” rule, which within a political economy of race and difference, was a blatant attempt to embolden Whiteness and the privilege that derived from it.  Scholar Yaba Blay offers a different view of the “one drop” rule with her multi-media project (1)ne Drop…

  • Left of Black S3:E9 | Racial Passing and the Rise of Multiracialism

    For many African Americans, the practice of ‘Passing’—where light-skinned Blacks could pass for White—remains a thing connected to a difficult racial past. In her new book, Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity (Baylor University Press), Marcia Dawkins, a professor in the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California…

  • Race Under the Microscope: Biological Misunderstandings of Race

    Race Under the Microscope: Biological Misunderstandings of Race Center for Genetics and Society 2012-05-24 Despite the fact that advances in genetics undermine the notion that discrete and distinct racial groups exist at the biological level, the science of genetics is inadvertently reinforcing the myth that race is a biological, rather than a social, category. In…

  • Amerasians

    Amerasians Atmo 1998-10-22 52 minutes Erik Gandini, Director/Producer In 1988, after the Congress passed the Amerasian Homecoming Act, Vietnamese youngsters who could prove they had been fathered by an American were issued with a ticket for the U.S. and granted six months ”upkeep”. Overnight, society’s lowest ranks became ”golden children”, able to take a whole…

  • Family Portrait in Black and White: Documentary by Julia Ivanova

    Family Portrait in Black and White: Documentary by Julia Ivanova Interfilm Productions Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2011 Institutional Use: Double DVD (includes 85 and 52 minute versions) Private Use: 85 minute DVD Julia Ivanova, Director Olga Nenya has 27 children. Four of them, now adults, are her biological children; the other 23 are adopted or…