Category: Videos

  • In the future, we will be…: Priyank Shah at TEDx Columbus TEDx Columbus 2012-10-14 Priyank Shah, Demographer, Futurist, Teacher Dr. Shah is a demographer and a very enthusiastic one. He’ll begin our day with baseline picture of where we are headed as a population so we will better understand ourselves as a society. But no…

  • Scot Nakagawa: Dismantling the Fulcrum of White Supremacy GRITtv 2012-08-24 Laura Flanders, Host Scot Nakagawa, Senior Parner ChangeLab Race, according to activist and writer Scot Nakagawa, was an idea created originally to justify the enslavement of a people, and has displayed pernicious staying power in the centuries since. That’s why, as Nakagawa explains in this…

  • Join Mixed Roots Midwest at CMRS Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference DePaul University Chicago, Illinois 2012-11-01 through 2012-11-03 What Mixed Roots Midwest brings selected short films, a panel of filmmakers, and a live show featuring local and national talent whose material explores the Mixed experience to Chicago as part of the 2012 Critical Mixed Race…

  • Local Filmmaker to Give Voice to Biracial Issues News Release Nashville, Tennessee 2012-10-10 Jefferey Martin 615-918-8688 James Southard, Director/Producer Native Nashville, [Tennessee]  filmmaker, James Southard aims to tackle the subject of what it means to be biracial in his forth-coming documentary, “Half-Caste.” The documentary comes from a mixture of personal experience with being biracial, a…

  • Anomaly – Film Screening and Performance Bentley University Wilder Pavilion – Adamian Academic Center Waltham, Massachusetts Wednesday, 2012-10-24, 18:30 EDT (Local Time) Jessica Chen Drammeh, Director/Producer Sharon Smith, Co-Producer Anomaly is an award-winning documentary that provides a thought-provoking look at multiracial identity by combining personal narratives with the larger drama of mixed race in American…

  • New Americans: Rise of the Multiracials: A Documentary A Work-In-Progress Documentary Eli Steele, Producer With more Americans marrying across the color line today than before, it is inevitable that the racial makeup of America’s face will forever change. Of the nine million individuals that identified themselves as multiracial on the 2010 census, more than 50…

  • Black GIs, English women, and ‘brown babies’ (1944-1950) Mix-d: Museum: Timeline Mix-d: 2012-07-10 During the period 1942-45 around one million US servicemen were based in England as part of the preparations for the invasion of Europe in June 1944 and around 130,000 (13%) of these were Black (African American) GIs. This caused endless worry for…

  • British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act (1914) Mix-d: Museum: Timeline Mix-d: 2012-07-10 With the increase of the minority ethnic population in Britain from the turn of the century, popular concerns about interracial relationships grew. The 1914 British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act meant that not only did ‘aliens’ – that is, foreign-born residents,…

  • Complexity of Race In America C-SPAN Video Library Program ID: 305676-1 First Aired: 2012-06-03 New York Historical Society New York, New York 2012-04-12 Brent Staples, Host New York Times Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University Daniel Sharfstein, author of The Invisible Line [:Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White],…

  • 5th Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival Japanese American National Museum Los Angeles, California 2012-06-15 through 2012-06-17 Co-producers: Fanshen Cox, Heidi Durrow, and Jennifer Frappier of the award-winning podcast Mixed Chicks Chat The Festival is a fiscally sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, a non-profit organization, celebrating stories of the…