Month: March 2012

  • Mix-d: Museum Mix-d:™ 2012-02-27 Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow London South Bank University Peter Aspinall, Reader in Population Health at the Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent, UK The overall aim of the project is to explore the potential of translating knowledge through technology. Working together with Mix-d, the team will draw on…

  • Studs Terkel’s study of race in the US: 20 years on The Guardian 2012-03-13 Gary Younge What have we learned in the two decades since the oral historian Studs Terkel published his classic book Race? In the introduction to a new edition, Gary Younge weighs up what has changed – and what hasn’t Cultures do…

  • Mexico’s black history is often ignored Los Angeles Times 2008-04-13 John L. Mitchell, Times Staff Writer In Mexico, the story of the country’s black population has been largely ignored in favor of an ideology that declares that all Mexicans are “mixed race.” But it’s the mixture of indigenous and European heritage that most Mexicans embrace;…

  • Being mixed: Who claims a biracial identity? Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 18, Number 1 (January 2012) pages 91-96 DOI: 10.1037/a0026845 Sarah S. M. Townsend, Visiting Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations and Postdoctoral Fellow Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Stephanie A. Fryberg, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Faculty in American…

  • Black identity in biracial Black/White people: A comparison of Jacqueline who refuses to be exclusively Black and Adolphus who wishes he were. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 7, Number 2 (May 2001) page 182-196 DOI: 10.1037//1099-9809.7.2.182 Angela R. Gillem Arcadia University Laura Renee Cohn Arcadia University Cambria Thorne Arcadia University Two biracial college…

  • [Daniel Fiedler] Segregating children is wrong The Korea Herald 2012-03-13 Daniel Fiedler, Professor of Law Wonkwang University This year under the guidance of the Seoul Office of Education a new elementary school and a new high school were opened in the Seoul area. While generally the opening of new schools would not be cause for…

  • Call for submissions: “Mixed Race 2.0” “Mixed Race 2.0: Mixing Race, Risk, and Reward in the Digital Age” is a project dedicated to examining the intersections of multiracial identities that lurk behind the scenes of everyday life in an increasingly networked world. In recent years, multiracial identities have seen increased representation in media, politics, art…

  • Miscegenation: The Courts and the Constitution William and Mary Law Review Volume 8, Issue 1 (1966) Article 7 pages 133-142 Cyrus E. Phillips IV MISCEGENATION: THE COURTS AND THE CONSTITUTION Miscegenation is generally defined as the interbreeding or marriage of persons of different races, but the term will here be used in reference to miscegenetic…

  • Thus the effectiveness of a public policy argument in defense of miscegenation statutes stands on very weak ground today. The mind of the modern Supreme Court was well expressed by Mr. Chief Justice Vinson in Shelley v. Kraemer, when he stated: “Equal protection of the laws is not achieved through indiscriminate imposition of equalities.” Edmund…

  • The suggestion of a fruitless future for the black American is reinforced in the faces of the two young figures. Homer endows the women with traditional Caucasian features by painting them with light skin and slender facial bone structure. By representing the figures with a combination of both prototypical black and white physical characteristics, Homer…