Category: My Articles/Point of View/Activities

  • The Born Identity: Race & Identity in the Multiracial Community Districtly Speaking Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library 3160 16th Street, Northwest Washington, D.C. 20010 Thursday, 2015-01-29, 18:30-20:00 EST (Local Time) “Race is not a universal concept — the definitions we go by are often arbitrary, uniquely American and undergo dramatic shifts from one generation to the…

  • Two Chowan Discovery Panels in Chicago Chowan Discovery Group Press Release 2014-10-27 Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director Thursday, 2014-11-13, 09:00 CST (Local Time) and Friday, 2014-11-14, 16:00 CST (Local Time) For the second consecutive conference, Chowan Discovery Group is hosting two panels at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at DePaul University in Chicago. Address…

  • I received more than a few raised eyebrows after describing the recent trip my wife and I took to attend the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey’s Second Annual Convention at Barnard College in New York. If you are tempted to believe that being both Black and German is an oxymoron; think again.

  • The journalistic survey, and monographic studies of Obama have been joined by some important anthologies. One of the first notable anthologies written about race and Obama was edited by historian and political scientist Manning Marable and civil rights attorney Kristen Clarke. This volume, entitled Barack Obama and African American Empowerment: The Rise of Black Americas…

  • MixedRaceStudies.org Celebrates Its Fifth Year! 2014-05-29 Steven F. Riley This month, MixedRaceStudies.org celebrates its fifth year. The purpose of the site, to provide a non-commercial gateway to interdisciplinary English language scholarship about multiraciality, has held steady for the last five years. Since then, the amount of content has mushroomed to over 7,000 posts and I…

  • Complicating Race or Reproducing Whiteness? Heidi Durrow and The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Gino Michael Pellegrini: Education, Race, Multiraciality, Class & Solidarity 2014-04-13 Gino Michael Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California [This is an excerpt from a paper (currently being revised) that I presented last month at the…

  • The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies inaugural issue is now available Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies Volume 1, Number 1 (2014-01-30) ISSN: 2325-4521 Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University of California at Santa Barbaral Saya…

  • A Breakdown & Discussion of Upcoming Events with Our Very Own, Steve Riley Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2014-02-12, 17:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host On Wednesday’s episode of Mixed Race Radio, Steve Riley (mixedracestudies. org) will join me to discuss some upcoming events and performances occurring all over the world. Whether you…

  • PHOTOS: 3rd Annual What Are You? Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Brooklyn Historical Society Fall 2013 Nayantara Sen, CBBG Project Associate All photos by Willie Davis for Brooklyn Historical Society, 2013 Steven Riley, Founder of MixedRaceStudies.org gives a few remarks before introducing one of the panels. A participant in the packed the house in Brooklyn Historical…

  • One Big Mixed Race Classroom: New Models for Digital, Transnational, and Cross-Disciplinary Pedagogy Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association Beyond the Logic of Debt, Toward an Ethics of Collective Dissent 2013-11-21 through 2013-11-24 Washington Hilton 1919 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. Washington Hilton, Columbia Hall 9 (T) Friday, 2013-11-22, 12:00-13:45 EST (Local Time) CHAIR:…