Month: June 2013

  • OMB’s Preliminary Recommendation & an IV Commentary Interracial Voice [1995-2003] July 1997 Charles Michael Byrd The Office of Management and Budget announced last Wednesday (07-09-97) that Americans could choose more than one racial category on Census and other federal forms but would have no new “multiracial” box to check under new rules the agency proposed.…

  • Why the multiracial community must march on July 20! Interracial Voice [1995-2003] July 1996 Charles Michael Byrd Any group needs and deserves to know why someone makes a particular decision, especially when that person asks them to act upon that decision, to contribute and participate. So, too, you need to understand the reasons behind the…

  • Winning the Race NYU Alumni Magazine Fall 2012 Andrea Crawford As the first African-American president runs for reelection, researchers examine the subliminal influence of political ads  In 1990, longtime North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms was trailing challenger Harvey Gantt, an African-American who supported affirmative action, when the Helms campaign produced the infamous “hands” commercial. As…

  • Aisha Sabatini Sloan Trop 2013-05-14 Zoe Ruiz, Saturday Editor for The Rumpus and staff member of FOUND In The Fluency of Light, Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s essays read like meditations on themes of identity, race, and family. Her writing is sharp—one might say spare—and her descriptions, clear and beautiful. Her essays are a guide that help…

  • Backlash greets Cheerios ad with interracial family The Washington Post 2013-05-31 Mary C. Curtis Here we go again, with more proof, if anyone needed it, that the post-racial American society some hoped the election of an African American president signified is far from here. Who would have thought that breakfast cereal would trigger the latest…

  • Senior Interculturalist Profile: Dr. Stella Ting-Toomey Society of Intercultural Education, Training, & Research (SIETAR) Newsletter January 2002 4 pages Susan Rinderle Stella Ting-Toomey is probably the only person who seems surprised that she is considered one of the top figures in the intercultural communication field, dismissing deserved compliments with a simple, “I’m just doing my…