Mixed Race Studies

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Day: November 6, 2012

  • Call for Proposals—Special AALR Issue on Mixed Race

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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…

  • Brazil’s Affirmative-Action Quotas: Progress?

    Brazil’s Affirmative-Action Quotas: Progress? The Chronicle of Higher Education 2012-11-05 Ibram H. Rogers, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies State University of New York, Albany Brazil recently passed what was probably the most sweeping affirmative-action law in the modern history of higher education. While the livelihood of affirmative action in the United States is in the…

  • Quilombismo and the Afro-Brazilian Quest for Citizenship

    Quilombismo and the Afro-Brazilian Quest for Citizenship Journal of Black Studies Volume 43, Number 8 (November 2012) pages 847-871 DOI: 10.1177/0021934712461794 Niyi Afolabi, Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin Between the radicalism of Black Brazilian movements of the 1980s, an aftermath of the negation and rejection of the myth of…

  • Afro-Brazilians: Cultural Production in a Racial Democracy

    An interdisciplinary study on the myth of racial democracy in Brazil through the prism of producers of Afro-Brazilian culture.