Month: March 2010

  • 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…

  • Barack Obama’s rise marks America’s first multiracial decade Yahoo News 2009-12-09 Thomas Kelley Everyone has a day of awakening when it comes to race. For me, it was a cool September day when I was eight years old. My family had recently moved to Colorado from Tennessee and like any child starting a new school,…

  • Biracial Identity: Beyond Black and White The Boston College Chronicle 2003-02-13 Volume 11, Number 11 Sean Smith, Chronicle Editor Sociologist’s expertise built on experience, not just scholarly inquiry The man in the next seat had been eyeing her furtively for a while, so Asst. Prof. Kerry Ann Rockquemore (Sociology) figured it was only a matter…

  • Through Russwurm’s Eyes: ‘The Conditions and Prospects of Haiti’ Campus News Bowdoin College 2010-03-01 John B. Russwurm, the College’s first African-American graduate and thought to be the third African-American to graduate from an American college, delivered a commencement address in 1826 that resonates nearly 184 years later. The speech, “The Condition and Prospects of Haiti,”…

  • The remarkable saga of a mixed-race family in nineteenth-century America

  • Malaga Island: A Brief History Compiled by the Students of ES 203 Service Learning Project Bowdoin College 2003 Adrienne Heflich Anna Troyansky Samantha Farrell Malaga Island is located in Casco Bay, near the mouth of the New Meadows River, and is roughly a half-mile long by a quarter-mile wide in size. It sits approximately one…

  • RACE: Are We So Different? A Project of the American Anthropological Association 2007 We expect people to look different. And why not? Like a fingerprint, each person is unique. Every person represents a one-of-a-kind, combination of their parents’, grandparents’ and family’s ancestry. And every person experiences life somewhat differently than others. Differences… they’re a cause…

  • Blended Nation: A Portrait of Mixed-Race America Yes! Magazine 2010-02-10 The fear and xenophobia in the aftermath of 9/11 got Mike Tauber and Pamela Singh thinking about how race and ethnicity are based on visual cues. They began photographing a network of mixed-race friends in the spring of 2002, eventually working with organizations like Swirl,…

  • Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America Channel Photographics 2009-08-11 140 pages 11 x 11 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-9773399-2-1 Mike Tauber Pamela Singh What are you? On the 2000 U.S. Census, for the first time, multiracial individuals were allowed to indicate more than one race. Nearly seven million Americans did so. Blended Nation: Portraits…

  • Mixed Race Americans Picture A ‘Blended Nation’ Weekend Edition Sunday National Public Radio 2009-11-08 Liane Hansen, Host The 2000 U.S. census was the first to give Americans the option to check more than one box for race. Nearly 7 million people declared themselves to be multiracial that year, a number that’s expected to shoot up…