Month: January 2013

  • Nation’s First Asian American Rabbi Inspires Social Change KoreAm: The Korean American Experience 2011-12-06 Rebecca U. Cho Unorthodox Rabbi As a child, Angela Buchdahl stood out as the lone Asian face in the synagogue and at Jewish camps. Today, she holds the distinction of being the nation’s first Asian American rabbi and is helping to…

  • How Is Biracialism Changing America – And The Jewish community? RepairLabs: Resources and strategies for volunteer engagement and Jewish Service-Learning 2012-02-10 Diane Tobin, President Institute for Jewish & Community Research As the parent of a Black Jewish child, I want my son to feel at home in the Jewish community. It seems to me that…

  • Welcome! Please Check Your Identity at the Door RJ.org: News & Views of Reform Jews 2012-06-27 Lacey Schwartz, National Outreach/New York Regional Director Be’chol Lashon I just got off the phone with a friend of mine who was planning on enrolling her daughter in a local Hebrew school, a decision she is now reconsidering. Why?…

  • “Mixed-Race in the Bible (“Chino-Chicano” Part II) Jesus for Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity 2013-01-09 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles As an expression of my multiracial struggles, I used to wrestle a lot with the issue of marriage. I…

  • This book explodes the myth of a single authentic Judaism and shines a bright light on the thousands of ethnically and racially diverse Jews in the United States who live full and rich Jewish lives. It is impossible to read “In Every Tongue” without coming away with a deeper respect for and a broader understanding…

  • Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House Paradigm Publishers February 2011 288 pages 6″ x 9″ Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-59451-833-1 EBook ISBN: 978-1-61205-000-3 Kenneth T. Walsh This book examines the intertwined relationships between the presidents and the African Americans who have been an integral part of the White House since the beginning…

  • Census Bureau Names Eric Hamako to National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations United States Census Bureau News Release CB12-R.33 2012-10-12 The U.S. Census Bureau announced today the establishment of the National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations and has named Eric Hamako as a member of the committee.   The…

  • Hall of Fame Has Always Made Room for Infamy The New York Times 2013-01-08 Bill Pennington The Baseball Hall of Fame, the most august fraternity of its kind in American sports, unveils its latest induction class Wednesday. For the first time this year, balloters must weigh the fate of two eminent stars, Barry Bonds and…

  • Tragic No More: Mixed Race Women and the Nexus of Sex and Celebrity University of Massachusetts Press December 2012 176 pages 6 x9; 6 illustrations ISBN (paper): 978-1-55849-985-0 ISBN (cloth): 978-1-55849-984-3 Caroline A. Streeter, Associate Professor of English University of California, Los Angeles A timely exploration of gender and mixed race in American culture This…

  • Being Mixed and Black: The Socialization of Mixed-Race Identity University of Chicago 2012-12-13 92 pages Brett R. Coleman Submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Chicago, 2012 This study examined the relationship between parental racial-ethnic socialization…