Month: November 2012

  • Barack Obama Reelection Signals Rise Of New America The Huffington Post 2012-11-07 Howard Fineman NEW YORK—President Barack Obama did not just win reelection tonight. His victory signaled the irreversible triumph of a new, 21st-century America: multiracial, multi-ethnic, global in outlook and moving beyond centuries of racial, sexual, marital and religious tradition. Obama, the mixed-race son…

  • Thank you for making CMRS 2012 and Mixed Roots Midwest a success Laura Kina 2011-11-04 Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University We’ve just finished four days of the Critical Mixed Race Studies conference and Mixed Roots Midwest festival hosted by DePaul University in Chicago, IL. Thank…

  • Rejuvenated Obama reelected as president after bruising campaign The Washington Post 2011-11-07 David A. Fahrenthold Barack Obama was elected to a second presidential term Tuesday, defeating Republican Mitt Romney by reassembling the political coalition that boosted him to victory four years ago and remaking himself from a hopeful uniter into a determined fighter for middle-class…

  • Divided U.S. Gives Obama More Time The New York Times 2012-11-06 Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg Barack Hussein Obama was re-elected president of the United States on Tuesday, overcoming powerful economic headwinds, a lock-step resistance to his agenda by Republicans in Congress and an unprecedented torrent of advertising as a divided nation voted to give…

  • President Barack Obama defeats Romney to win re-election BBC News 2012-11-07 President Barack Obama has been re-elected to a second term, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney. America’s first black president secured more than the 270 votes in the electoral college needed to win. In his victory speech before supporters in Chicago, Mr Obama said he…

  • Call for Proposals—Special AALR Issue on Mixed Race The Asian American Literary Review 1110 Severnview Drive Crownsville, Maryland 21032 2019-09-17 Editors-in-Chief Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis Gerald Maa Thanks to political organizing, scholarship, and the arts, not to mention media coverage, mixed race has become hyper-visible. So what’s next? AALR’s special issue on mixed race, due out…

  • Han Suyin Dies; Wrote Sweeping Fiction The New York Times 2012-11-05 Margalit Fox Han Suyin, a physician and author known for writing the sweeping novel that became the Hollywood film “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” and for her outspoken championing of China under Mao Zedong, died on Friday at her home in Lausanne, Switzerland. As…

  • Han Suyin’s Many-Splendored World The New York Times 1985-01-25 Georgia Dullea Being remembered as the author of  ”A Many-Splendored Thing,” the semiautobiographical love story of a Eurasian physician and a British journalist in Hong Kong, which inspired a sentimental movie and an even more sentimental song, is a bore, says Han Suyin, 33 years and…

  • Social workers ‘at rock bottom’ over issue of race and adoption The Guardian 2012-11-06 Hugh Muir, Diary Editor Professional body to tell Lords committee that political stereotyping has hampered efforts to rehome vulnerable children Morale among social workers has been driven to rock bottom by cuts, targets and ministers making the issue of race and…

  • Racial Framing and Superstorm Sandy: A Black Mother Begs for Help While Her Children Drown We Are Respectable Negroes 2012-11-04 Chauncey DeVega Superstorm Sandy has made the divisions of class in the New York City area very clear. The “haves” are able to muster the resources to somehow survive. The “have nots” are left to…