Month: July 2013

  • Where in the World Is Juan—and What Color Is He?: The Geography of Latina/o Racial Identity in Southern California American Quarterly Volume 65, Number 2, June 2013 pages 309-341 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2013.0020 Laura Pulido, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity University of Southern California Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity University of…

  • My greatest challenge in writing this book has been to present the information in a way that does not accelerate racism.  To avoid this, I talked with experts such as Randy Lindsey and Glenn Singleton. Mr. Singleton asked me to consider this question when I wrote the book: “What accelerates racism when dealing with the…

  • Finally, Someone Who “Gets” Me! Multiracial People Value Others’ Accuracy About Their Race Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology Published online: 2013-03-06 DOI: 10.1037/a0032249 Jessica D. Remedios, Assistant Professor of Psychology Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts Alison L. Chasteen, Associate Professor University of Toronto Monoracial people typically encounter correct views about their race from others. Multiracial…

  • Al Jazeera America signs Soledad O’Brien as special correspondent Al Jazeera America 2013-07-01 Al Jazeera America, the new American news channel that will launch in August, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Emmy Award-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien’s production company, Starfish Media Group. O’Brien will contribute short-form segments as Special Correspondent to Al…

  • Self Portraits of an African-Canadian Dressed as Her White Ancestors Explores Her Mixed Heritage feature shoot 2013-07-01 Keren Moscovitch Brooklyn-based photographer Stacey Tyrell’s series Backra Bluid is a dramatic investigation of the artist’s own mixed heritage and the colonialized experiences of non-whites. As an African-Canadian, whose family most recently hails from the Caribbean, she is…

  • In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close contact, leading to new cross-cultural encounters that brought mixed-race families into being. Yet the stories of these families remain largely unknown.

  • ‘White House Down’ and Black Presidents on Screen The New York Times 2013-06-26 Mekado Murphy At one point in the action thriller “White House Down,” which opens June 28, the president of the United States, played by Jamie Foxx, is trying to thwart a paramilitary group that has overtaken the White House. After swapping his…

  • Naked Bodies, Bodies of History Hyphen Magazine: Asian America Unabridged 2013-06-27 Jenny Lee “She mimics the speaking. That might resemble speech. (Anything at all.) Bared noise, groan, bits torn from words…From the back of her neck she releases her shoulders free.  She swallows once more.” So begins the story of the halting diseuse, or female…

  • Who Is White?: Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide Lynne Rienner 2003 230 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-1-58826-337-7 George Yancey, Professor of Sociology University of North Texas “By the year 2050, whites will be a numerical racial minority, albeit the largest minority, in the United States.” This statement, asserts George Yancey, while statistically correct, is…

  • Black/Non-Black Divide and The Anti-Blackness of Non-Black Minorities Still Furious and Brave: Who’s Afraid of Persistent Blackness? 2013-04-03 Robert Reece Department of Sociology Duke University Last week, an Asian-American fraternity at the University of California Irvine posted a parody of a music video featuring one of their members in blackface. Blackface has become the go-to…