Month: June 2013

  • From Medical Innovation to Sociopolitical Crisis: How Racialized Medicine Has Shifted the Scope of Racial Discourse and its Social Consequences Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut May 2013 51 pages Danielle Antonia Craig An essay submitted to the faculty of Wesleyan University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Departmental…

  • love, desire, and impossible measures The State 2013-06-08 Tiana Reid Columbia University Children rule. No, certain children rule the ways in which we measure fantasies of progress. I read Meagan Hatcher-Mays’ Jezebel piece, “I’m Biracial, and That Ad Is a Big Fucking Deal. Trust Me.,” before I saw the Cheerios commercial itself. The commercial, like…

  • In spite of the unique histories of slavery and persons of African descent in each of the six countries discussed in this book, certain themes recur. In a sense, this book is a study of the growth and demise of the sugar economy in many of these countries, along with that of coffee and tobacco.…

  • Photo of the Week: An Interracial Family in 1962 The Brooklyn Historical Society Blog The Brooklyn Historical Society 2013-06-05 Sady Sullivan, Director of Oral History The Bibuld Family, ca. 1962, V1989.22.14; Bob Adelman photographs of Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) demonstrations collection, V1989.002; Brooklyn Historical Society. This photograph from the Brooklyn Congress of Racial…

  • Negro-White Marriages Here Show Rise Despite Problems of Prejudice The New York Times 1963-10-18 Fred Powledge Marriages between Negroes and whites have been increasing in New York and have become a poignant part of the life of the city. The precise number of such marriages may never be known. Documents on file at the City…

  • Black in Latin America New York University Press July 2011 270 pages 50 illustrations Hardback ISBN: 9780814732984 Paperback ISBN: 9780814738184 eBook ISBN: Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor of History Harvard University 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0 million survived the arduous…

  • SoCal multiracial families create their own Cheerios ‘ads’ Multi-American: How immigrants are redefining ‘American’ in Southern California 89.3 KPCC: Southern California Public Radio 2013-06-06 Leslie Berestein Rojas, Immigration and Emerging Communities Reporter Call it a reaction to a reaction. A group of multiracial Southern Californians, happy to see a new Cheerios commercial featuring a mixed-race…

  • Coming Out As Black, When You Were Hispanic Tell Me More National Public Radio 2013-06-06 Celeste Headlee, Guest Host High school senior Elaine Vilorio wrote that she started seriously contemplating her blackness when she stopped straightening her hair. Elaine Vilorio Teen Elaine Vilorio spent years trying to make sense of her racial identity. She describes…

  • Coming Out As Black The Blog The Huffington Post 2013-05-24 Elaine Vilorio, High School Senior Northern New Jersey I’m Black. After many years in the closet, after many years of breathing that stale air of self-denial, I can finally say this. Growing up, I dreaded the question “What are you?” I always proudly answered that…

  • Keeping our cholesterol and our expectations low By now, most readers of MixedRaceStudies.org and other race-related blogs and social media sites are well aware of the “Just Checking” commercial for the cereal brand Cheerios, a May 28 post on YouTube featuring an interracial family.