Month: August 2010

  • Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race Farrar, Straus and Giroux (an imprint of MacMillan) April 1998 84 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0-374-52533-0, ISBN10: 0-374-52533-1 Patricia J. Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia Law School In these five eloquent and passionate pieces (which she gave as the…

  • My point of departure begins with the social and political fact of being both a Black woman who is Jewish and a Jewish woman who is Black in order to undermine the presupposition of inherent cultural or racial differences that favors the vocabulary of mixed or hybrid identities over the conjunction [both.. and]. Instead of…

  • The New Hollywood Racelessness: Only the Fast, Furious, (and Multiracial) Will Survive Cinema Journal Volume 44, Number 2, Winter 2005 pages 50-67 Mary C. Beltrán, Associate Professor of Media Studies University of Texas, Austin This article interrogates the rise of the “multiculti” action film and the casting of multiracial actors as Hollywood action film protagonists.…

  • Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil Duke University Press 2001 392 pages 46 b&w photos, 1 map, 3 figures Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2731-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2741-7 Jonathan W. Warren, Associate Professor of International and Latin American Studies University of Washington Since the 1970s there has been a dramatic rise in the Indian population in…

  • White Americans, The New Minority? Non-Blacks and the Ever-Expanding Boundaries of Whiteness Jonathan W. Warren, Associate Professor of International and Latin American Studies University of Washington France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Journal of Black Studies Volume 28, Number 2 (November 1997) pages 200-218 Argues that in the United States…

  • “Skinfolks” and “Kinfolks”: Racial Passing in American Films 1930-1960 Department of American Studies University of Virginia Summer 2002 Introduction Characters with a desire to become something that they are not in order to escape their realities have been present from the earliest American films to the present. The popular encyclopedia of American cinema, Videohound, categorizes…

  • ‘A modelling competition with a difference’ is being pioneered by social enterprise mix-d:™ at MMU’s business incubator, Innospace News and Events Manchester Metropolitan University Business School Manchester, England 2010-08-02 A MODELLING competition – the first of its kind in the UK to find the mixed race face of 2010 is being organised by social enterprise,…

  • The social care system and mixed race young people: placing the individual child at the heart of decision making People in Harmony Central London, England 2010-11-11 A one-day conference from People in Harmony which will consider why mixed race young people are over-represented in the care system, how they fare in the system and beyond,…

  • Scholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review The New York Times 2010-08-23 Patricia Cohen For professors, publishing in elite journals is an unavoidable part of university life. The grueling process of subjecting work to the up-or-down judgment of credentialed scholarly peers has been a cornerstone of academic culture since at least the mid-20th century. Now…

  • Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian Testimony: In Search of the “Place” in Displacement The Global Viet Diaspora 2009 This documentary was produced/directed by Rojelio Vo, Long S. Le, and Aaron Hedge. The documentary is based on the lived-experience of a Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian, Khanh Le. “If the individual black self could not exist before the law, it could, and…