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Day: May 15, 2013

  • Dr. Ralina Joseph and Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial

    Dr. Ralina Joseph and Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial I Mix What I Like 2013-01-11 Jared A. Ball, Host and Associate Professor of Communication Studies Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland This is part one of our discussion with Dr. Ralina Joseph about her book, Transcending Blackness: From the New…

  • What We Mean When We Say ‘Race Is a Social Construct’

    What We Mean When We Say ‘Race Is a Social Construct’ The Atlantic 2013-05-15 Ta-Nehisi Coates, Senior Editor In a world where Kevin Garnett, Harold Ford, and Halle Berry all check “black” on the census, even the argument that racial labels refer to natural differences in physical traits doesn’t hold up. Andrew Sullivan and Freddie…

  • Soledad O’Brien: ‘OK, white person, this is a conversation you clearly are uncomfortable with’

    Soledad O’Brien: ‘OK, white person, this is a conversation you clearly are uncomfortable with’ The Washington Examiner 2013-05-13 Paul Bedard Soledad O’Brien, recently yanked from her morning show “Starting Point” on CNN, plans to continue her focus on racial issues and is charging that whites are afraid of dealing with the nation’s black-white division. O’Brien,…

  • Half/Full

    Half/Full UC Irvine Law Review University of California, Irvine Law School Volume 3, Forthcoming Online: 2013-04-07 pages 101-125 Nancy Leong, Associate Professor of Law University of Denver, Sturm College of Law Research suggests that multiracial identity is uniquely malleable, and I will focus here on the significance of that malleability for mixed-Asian individuals. At various times,…

  • Lecture: What Would Be the Story of Alice and Leonard Rhinelander Today?

    Lecture: What Would Be the Story of Alice and Leonard Rhinelander Today? UC Davis Law Review University of California School of Law Volume 46, Number 4, April 2013 pages 939-960 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law University of Iowa On November 8, 2011, I presented this lecture as part of…