Mixed Race Studies

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Month: February 2013

  • Interview with PhD Student Karla Lucht: Children’s Literature about Mixed-Race Asian Americans/Canadians

    Interview with PhD Student Karla Lucht: Children’s Literature about Mixed-Race Asian Americans/Canadians The Center for Children’s Books Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign February 2013 Tad Andracki, CCB Outreach Coordinator “Everyone deserves to see themselves represented in a book. And a good book at that.” GSLIS doctoral student Karla…

  • Mixed feelings

    Mixed feelings NOW. 2012-06-30 NOW is the online source for news, features, analysis and much more, covering Lebanon, the Lebanese diaspora and the Middle East. “The people photographed are so beautiful they make you feel like having mixed race babies,” said Kevork Baboyan, one of many attendees at Wednesday’s opening of the photography exhibition, Mixed…

  • Possibilities Abound in a Nation That Is Diverse, CNN Journalist Says

    Possibilities Abound in a Nation That Is Diverse, CNN Journalist Says Yale News 2009-11-20 Susan Gonzalez When CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien was growing up, her mother in­structed her never to let anyone tell her that she wasn’t black or Hispanic because of her mixed ethnic and racial heritage. So, when she was asked to identify…

  • Japanese-Brazilian Music and Ethnic Identity in the Post-Dekasegi Era: A lecture by Shanna Lorenz

    Japanese-Brazilian Music and Ethnic Identity in the Post-Dekasegi Era: A lecture by Shanna Lorenz Barnard College, Columbia University Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall 3009 Broadway, New York, New York 2013-02-28, 18:00 EST (Local Time) Shanna Lorenz, Assistant Professor, Music; Advisory Committee, Latino/a and Latin American Studies Occidental College, Los Angeles This talk explores how…

  • It’s all in the mix

    It’s all in the mix NOW 2009-05-22 NOW is the online source for news, features, analysis and much more, covering Lebanon, the Lebanese diaspora and the Middle East. “I am apartment hunting with Hala who looks like a cheap whore,” read the text message that Hala’s friend accidently sent to her while they were walking…

  • A racist is not going to ask them whether they are mixed-race.

    Sabrina Jacobucci: “Mixed race children often face the same issues black mono-heritage children face. No matter their skin tone, they are seen as black and therefore it is healthier and more empowering for them to identify as such, without denying their dual heritage at the same time. A racist is not going to ask them…

  • US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey on the legacy of the Civil War

    US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey on the legacy of the Civil War The Washington Post 2013-01-30 Ron Charles One hundred and fifty years later, Americans are still fighting the Civil War, US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey said at the Library of Congress on Wednesday. The field of battle is now historical memory, and gatling guns…

  • Beyond Black and White: When Going Beyond May Take Us Out of Bounds

    Beyond Black and White: When Going Beyond May Take Us Out of Bounds Journal of Black Studies Volume 44, Number 2 (March 2013) pages 158-181 DOI: 10.1177/0021934712471533 Katerina Deliovsky, Assistant Professor of Sociology Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario Tamari Kitossa, Assistant Professor of Sociology Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario This article examines a selection of…

  • ‘Romance of Race’ reveals rich cultural history

    ‘Romance of Race’ reveals rich cultural history BGSU News Bowling Green, Ohio Thursday, 2013-02-14 A new book by Dr. Jolie Sheffer is further confirmation that one should never doubt the power of the pen. “The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1890-1930,” published in January by Rutgers University Press, explains…

  • An evening wtih Lawrence Hill

    An evening wtih Lawrence Hill Central YMCA 20 Grosvenor Street Toronto, Ontario, Canada Thursday, 2013-02-21, 18:30-21:00 EST (Local Time) RSVP Deadline: 2013-02-19 Join us for an evening celebrating Black History Month with renowned Canadian author, Lawrence Hill. Lawrence Hill has written a number of award winning books including The Book of Negroes…. For more information,…