Month: September 2013

  • Sugar Pie DeSanto: After 50 Years, ‘Go Going’ Strong Fresh Air from WHYY [Philadelphia] National Public Radio 2010-07-29 Terry Gross, Host Ed Ward, Rock Music Commentator Ace Records Sugar Pie DeSanto was born in Brooklyn in October 1935, and was christened Umpeleya Marsema Balinton. Her father was Filipino, her mother African-American. Her mother had been…

  • Cane River: A Novel Grand Central Publishing 2001 560 pages 5-1/4″ x 8″ Paperback ISBN-13: 9780446678452 Lalita Tademy The “New York Times” bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club Pick—the unique and deeply moving epic of four generations of African-American women based on one family’s ancestral past.

  • Making a Non-White America: Californians Coloring outside Ethnic Lines, 1925-1955 University of California Press April 2008 318 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780520253452 E-Book ISBN: 9780520941274 Allison Varzally, Associate Professor of History California State University, Fullerton On the cover: Future R&B singer Sugar Pie DeSanto in San Francisco’s Fillmore District (circa 1940s) Winner of the 2009 Theodore…

  • Visualizing Race, Identity, and Change Proof National Geographic 2013-09-17 Michele Norris, Guest Contributor Proof is National Geographic’s new online photography experience. It was launched to engage ongoing conversations about photography, art, and journalism. In addition to featuring selections from the magazine and other publications, books, and galleries, this site will offer new avenues for our…

  • Chinese Mixed Race in Transnational Comparison (Sawyer Seminar IV) University of Southern California Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Center for Japanese Religions and Culture University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML), Room: 110C 2013-09-27, 13:00-17:00 PDT (Local Time) USC Conference Convenors: Duncan Williams, Associate Professor of Religion University of Southern…

  • Latina/o Healing Practices: Mestizo and Indigenous Perspectives Routledge 2008-05-19 360 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-95420-4 Edited by: Brian McNeill, Professor and director of training for the Counseling Psychology Program Washington State University Joseph M. Cervantes, Professor in the Department of Counseling California State University, Fullerton This edited volume focuses on the role of traditional or indigenous…

  • In China, mixed marriages can be a labor of love The Christian Science Monitor 2013-09-21 Yepoka Yeebo, Contributor In one major Chinese city, marriages between Chinese and Africans are on the rise. In a country known for monoculture, it isn’t easy. GUANGZHOU, China The restaurant that Joey and Ugo Okonkwo own was packed on a…

  • Lecture by Nayland Blake California College of the Arts Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco Campus Graduate Studies Lectue Series 2012-11-27, 19:00 PST Nayland Blake’s mixed-media work in sculpture and installation has been variously described as disturbing, provocative, elusive, tormented, sinister, hysterical, brutal, and tender. Often incorporating themes of masochism, it also manifests two other major…

  • Faculty-Alumnus David Huffman’s “Out of Bounds” at SFAC Gallery a “SHIFT” Toward Dialogue About Race in America California College of the Arts Featured News 2011-09-14 Jim Norrena Alumnus David Huffman (MFA 1998), who is a recently tenured assistant professor in CCA’s undergraduate Painting/Drawing Program and Graduate Program in Fine Arts, is one of three featured…

  • A CD collection featuring the best-selling audiobooks, The Audacity of Hope and Dreams from My Father from Grammy® award-winning author, Barack Obama.