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Month: October 2013

  • Irish and white-ish mixed “race” identity and the scopic regime of whiteness

    Irish and white-ish mixed “race” identity and the scopic regime of whiteness Women’s Studies International Forum Volume 27, Issue 4, October–November 2004 pages 385-396 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2004.10.007 Angeline D. Morrison Falmouth College of Arts, Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom When speaking about the paradoxical “invisibility” of whiteness, I am referring in particular to Richard Dyer’s project to…

  • Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937 by Julia H. Lee (review)

    Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937 by Julia H. Lee (review) Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 16, Number 3, October 2013 pages 340-342 DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2013.0025 Caroline H. Yang, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, English University of Illinois, Chicago Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures,…

  • Cory Booker wins New Jersey Senate race

    Cory Booker wins New Jersey Senate race The Washington Post 2013-10-16 Sean Sullivan Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a rising national Democratic star, was elected to the U.S. Senate Wednesday and will become New Jersey’s first ever African American senator. Booker defeated Republican Steve Lonegan, a former mayor of Bogota. With 58 percent of the vote…

  • The 10 Percenter

    The 10 Percenter The New York Times 2011-10-13 Robert S. Boyton Henry Louis Gates Jr. is having lunch at New York’s Union Square Cafe, hoping Danny Meyer’s chicken soup will soothe his allergies. He has just returned from Newark, where he interviewed Mayor Cory Booker for his new PBS series, “Finding Your Roots.” After lunch…

  • Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical by Todd Decker (review)

    Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical by Todd Decker (review) Theatre Journal Volume 65, Number 3, October 2013 pages 447-448 DOI: 10.1353/tj.2013.0077 Bethany Wood Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical. By Todd Decker. Broadway Legacy series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 238. Todd Decker’s Show Boat: Performing Race in…

  • Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “From the Conservation of Races to the Cosmic Race”

    Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “From the Conservation of Races to the Cosmic Race” Seminar Series: Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-10-23, 10:30 PDT (Local Time) Juliet Hooker, Associate Professor of Government University of Texas, Austin The Mexican philosopher José…

  • Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “Race-ing Toward the Real South Korea: The Cases of Black-Korean Nationals”

    Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “Race-ing Toward the Real South Korea: The Cases of Black-Korean Nationals” Seminar Series: Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-11-07, 10:30 PDT (Local Time) Nadia Y. Kim, Associate Professor of Sociology Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles,…

  • Rearticulating Black Mixed-Race in the Era of Globalization: Hines Ward and the struggle for Koreanness in contemporary South Korean media

    Rearticulating Black Mixed-Race in the Era of Globalization: Hines Ward and the struggle for Koreanness in contemporary South Korean media Cultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 3, 2014 pages 391-417 DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2013.840665 Ji-Hyun Ahn University of Texas, Austin Since the mid-2000s, the term multiculturalism has entered the Korean lexicon as migration has become more and more…

  • Visualizing Race: Neoliberal Multiculturalism and the Struggle for Koreanness in Contemporary South Korean Television

    Visualizing Race: Neoliberal Multiculturalism and the Struggle for Koreanness in Contemporary South Korean Television University of Texas at Austin August 2013 240 pages Ji-Hyun Ahn Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy “Visualizing…

  • Holding Onto The Other Half Of ‘Mixed-Race’

    Holding Onto The Other Half Of ‘Mixed-Race’ the race card project: six word essays Morning Edition National Public Radio 2013-10-14 Steve Inskeep, Host NPR continues a series of conversations about The Race Card Project, where thousands of people have submitted their thoughts on race and cultural identity in six words. Every so often NPR Host/Special…