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Month: February 2013

  • National Association of Mixed Student Organizations (NAMSO) – Newsletter 1.3

    National Association of Mixed Student Organizations (NAMSO) – Newsletter 1.3 National Association of Mixed Student Organizations 2013-02-10 Happy spring semester! Dear Mixed Student Organizations and friends,   Hope the new term and new year are off to a great start. Here at NAMSO, we have been busier than ever following the holiday season. In this…

  • France: The Socialists’ New Head, Harlem Désir

    France: The Socialists’ New Head, Harlem Désir The Daily Beast (In Newsweek Magazine) 2012-10-29 Tracy McNicoll, Paris correspondent The faded star of a French anti-racist icon. In a country that went tipsy with Obamania four years ago, Harlem Désir’s election to lead France’s ruling Socialist Party might seem an occasion for bubbly. Désir—whose gifts include…

  • W.N. Herbert and Hannah Lowe: A poetry reading

    W.N. Herbert and Hannah Lowe: A poetry reading NCLA: Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 2013-01-14 Location: Culture Lab, Newcastle University Time/Date: 28th February 2013, 19:15 …Chick is Hannah Lowe’s first collection and is also published by Bloodaxe. With London as their backdrop, Hannah Lowe’s deeply personal narrative poems…

  • Critical Mixed Race Studies: Research and Teaching on the Margins in the Mainstream

    Critical Mixed Race Studies: Research and Teaching on the Margins in the Mainstream University of California, Los Angeles Haines Hall 279 Friday, 2013-02-15, 12:00-13:30 PST (Local Time) G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara In the early 1980s, there emerged several important unpublished doctoral dissertations on multiraciality and the mixed race…

  • Betwixt & Between~Multiracial Identity=A Denial of Blackness

    Betwixt & Between~Multiracial Identity=A Denial of Blackness Mixed Race Radio 2013-02-06, 17:00Z (12:00 EST) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology, teaches courses exploring comparative race and ethnic relations. Since 1989, he has taught “Betwixt and Between,” which is one of…

  • Black History Month Events at Two Colleges

    Black History Month Events at Two Colleges The San Diego Union-Tribune 2013-02-09 Karen Pearlman El Cajon — Both East County community colleges are getting into the commemoration of Black History Month with free events this month. A library exhibit featuring John Robert Clifford, a seminal figure in African-American history (and a forefather of a Cuyamaca…

  • Racial Identity, Phenotype, and Self-Esteem Among Biracial Polynesian/White Individuals

    Racial Identity, Phenotype, and Self-Esteem Among Biracial Polynesian/White Individuals Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies Volume 62, Issue 1, February 2013 pages 82-91 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2012.00743.x G. E. Kawika Allen, Assistant Professor of Psychology Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah Patton O. Garriott, Assistant Professor, Counseling Psychology Program University of Denver Carla J. Reyes,…

  • The Race Conflict in Southern States: An Ethnological Study of the Original Types and the Effects of Hybridity

    Far back in the dim vista of ages, anterior to the current ideas of Noah or Adam, Egyptian records show that there were four great race types, or groups; and clear and distinct as they were orginally portrayed, so have they come down to this our day. Not one has ever been merged into another.

  • Matters of the Heart: A History of Interracial Marriage in New Zealand

    Matters of the Heart: A History of Interracial Marriage in New Zealand Auckland University Press July 2013 312 pages approx 240 x 170 mm, illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-1-86940-731-5 Angela Wanhalla, Senior Lecturer in History University of Otago, New Zealand A history of the intimate relations between Māori and Pākehā, and the intersections of public policy…

  • The Race Talk: Multiracialism, White Hegemony, and Identity Politics

    The Race Talk: Multiracialism, White Hegemony, and Identity Politics Information Age Publishing 2012-10-25 144 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-61735-912-5 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-61735-913-2 eBook ISBN: 978-1-61735-914-9 Pierre W. Orelus, Assistant Professor of Education New Mexico State University Drawing on critical race theory, this book critically examines race through a mosaic lens pointing out various issues directly connected…