Month: October 2013

  • Identity Production in Figured Worlds: How Some Multiracial Students Become Racial Atravesados/as The Urban Review June 2013 Aurora Chang Using Holland et al.’s (Identity and agency in cultural worlds, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1998) theory of identity and their concept of figured worlds, this article provides an overview of how twenty-five undergraduates of color came…

  • Mixed Remixed: a media festival celebrating connection October 2013 Mixed Remixed is an exciting new media festival celebrating racial and cultural connectedness which will be held June 14, 2014 at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles. Mixed Remixed brings together film and book lovers, innovative and emerging artists, and multiracial families and…

  • Transcending blackness: from the new millennium mulatta to the exceptional multiracial [Aspinall Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 5, 2014 pages 850-851 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.831934 Peter J. Aspinall, Emeritus Reader in Population Health University of Kent, UK Transcending blackness: from the new millennium mulatta to the exceptional multiracial, by Ralina L. Joseph. Durham and…

  • New faculty: Amy Non links health disparities to genetics and environment Research News @ Vanderbilt Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 2012-11-30 Liz Entman, (615) 322-NEWS For decades, researchers have struggled to identify the root causes behind racial disparities in health. Amy Non, assistant professor of anthropology, takes a multidisciplinary approach. A molecular anthropologist specializing in epigenetics,…

  • Education, Genetic Ancestry, and Blood Pressure in African Americans and Whites American Journal of Public Health August 2012, Volume 102, Number 8 pages 1559-1565 DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300448 Amy L. Non, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Clarence C. Gravlee, Associate Professor of Anthropology;  affiliate appointments in the Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health University…

  • Purple Boots, Silver Stars … and White Parents The New York Times 2013-10-13 Frank Ligtvoet, Founder Adoptive Families With Children of African Heritage and Their Friends, New York, New York “WHEN I wear my cap backwards, don’t copy me,” our 8-year-old son says to his 7-year-old sister. “O.K.,” she answers, “I will put it on…

  • Identity issues Harvard Gazette 2011-01-28 Stephanie Schorow, Harvard Correspondent ‘Black in Latin America’ examines perceptions of race There were laughs of recognition as Silvio Torres-Saillant, professor of English and humanities at Syracuse University, told a story that underscored a major point of the “Black in Latin America” conference, which kicked off on Jan. 27 at…

  • The Influence of Spirituality on the Implicit Identity of Racial African American Women of Ethnically Cherokee Ancestry Argosy University, Washington, D.C. December 2009 141 pages Daryl Harris Thorne Submitted to the Faculty of Argosy University – Washington, DC Campus College of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences In partial fulfillment of The requirements for the  Degree of…

  • Contesting Identities Through Walker Dance: Mestizo Performance in the Southern Andes of Peru Repercussions: a journal dedicated to all areas of music studies University of California, Berkeley Fall 1994, Volume 3, No. 2 pages 50-80 Zoila Mendoza-Walker This article analyzes an event in the city of Cusco, Peru that reverberated throughout the entire region during…

  • Pelo Malo (Bad Hair) Sudaca Films 2013 Venezuela 93 minutes color Written and Directed by Mariana Rondón Produced by Marité Ugás Starring Samuel Lange as Junior Samantha Castillo as Marta Junior is nine years old and has “bad hair.” He wants to have it straightened for his yearbook picture, like a fashionable pop singer. This…