Month: May 2013

  • Race Is Not Biology The Atlantic 2013-05-23 Merlin Chowkwanyun Departments of History and Public Health University of Pennsylvania How unthinking racial essentialism finds its way into scientific research During the past two weeks, much outrage has arisen over former Heritage Foundation staffer Jason Richwine’s Harvard doctoral dissertation, which speculated that IQ differences between “Hispanic” and…

  • Mixed Race Studies Mixed Race Family 2013-05-18 Elizabeth White For global people who are mixed race, belong to a mixed race family, are starting a mixed race family or who are from the global human race and are interested in learning more about the experiences of global mixed race families. Today I’m off to Leeds…

  • Latino racial choices: the effects of skin colour and discrimination on Latinos’ and Latinas’ racial self-identifications Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 31, Issue 5, 2008 pages 899-934 DOI: 10.1080/01419870701568858 Tanya Golash-Boza, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced William Darity, Jr., Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and…

  • “My dad is samurai”: Positioning of race and ethnicity surrounding a transnational Colombian Japanese high school student Linguistics and Education Available Online: 2013-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2013.03.002 Satoko Shao-Kobayashi Chiba University, Japan Highlights Racial hierarchies in different countries impact transnational students’ positioning in local contexts. Participants Other coethnics by using various labels to destigmatize their own minority…

  • Breaking the Color Barrier: Regina Andrews and the New York Public Library Libraries & the Cultural Record Volume 42, Number 4, 2007 pages 409-421 DOI: 10.1353/lac.2007.0068 Ethelene Whitmire, Associate Professor of Library & Information Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison Chicago native Regina Anderson Andrews (1901–93) was a librarian in the New York Public Library (NYPL)…

  • Halving the Bones: A film by Ruth Ozeki Women Make Movies 1995 70 minutes Color/BW, DVD Ruth Ozeki, Filmmaker, Novelist, and Zen Buddhist Priest Skeletons in the closet? Halving the Bones delivers a surprising twist to this tale. This cleverly-constructed film tells the story of Ruth, a half-Japanese filmmaker living in New York, who has inherited…

  • South Korea’s multiculturalism Al Jazeera The Stream 2013-05-21 How is the nation dealing with its growing diversity? A multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society is an emerging reality that is leading to a lot of racial and social discord in South Korea. Faced with an aging population and an influx of migrant wives, many are clinging to their…

  • LAAPFF 2013: Mix-cultural Asians Find Their Roots 8Asians 2013-05-20 Shako Liu One common theme that has been echoing in some of the documentaries presented in Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival is that mix-raced Asians either in the states or in an Asian country, or Asian immigrants are trying to find out who they are…

  • Multiracial Identity Development and the Impact of Race-Oriented Student Services Kansas State University 2013 46 pages Margaret Roque A REPORT submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree MASTER OF SCIENCE Department of Special Education, Counseling, and Student Affairs College of Education Multiracial identity development has been a topic of study that has…

  • Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan [Presentation] German Institute for Japanese Studies (Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien) Jochi Kioizaka Bldg. 2F 7-1 Kioicho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0094, Japan Wednesday, 2013-06-12, 18:30 JST (Local Time) Leslie Helm, Seattle Business Magazine The DIJ Social Science Study Group is a forum for young scholars and Ph.D.…