Day: January 15, 2014

  • Red, White, and Black: A Personal Essay on Interracial Marriage Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 29, Numbers 2 & 3, 2008 pages 51-58 DOI: 10.1353/fro.0.0021 Jacki Thompson Rand, Professor of History; American Indian and Native Studies University of Iowa About a month before my father died, a long-held question spilled out of my…

  • When an “Educated” Black Man Becomes Lighter in the Mind’s Eye SAGE Open 2014-01-14 9 pages DOI: 10.1177/2158244013516770 Avi Ben-Zeev, Professor of Cognitive Psychology San Francisco State University Tara C. Dennehy University of Massachusetts, Amherst Robin I. Goodrich University of California, Davis Branden S. Kolarik University of California, Davis Mark W. Geisler, Professor of Physiological…

  • 2 Hapa Parents and 19 Hapa artists: Our Visit to War Baby / Love Child at the Wing Luke Multiracial Asian Families: Parenting around race, ethnicity and what it means to be mixed Asian Sunday, 2014-01-12 Sharon H Chang Cold, rain. Gray-stained morning. Husband and I are sitting in the car at 5 till, draining…

  • “A Lot Like You” ~ Where Will Your Cultural Journey Take You? Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2014-01-15, 20:00Z (15:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Eliaichi Kimaro, Filmmaker On today’s episode of Mixed Race Radio, we will meet Activist-turned-filmmaker Eliaichi Kimaro. As the director of 9elephants productions, Eli produces videos for non-profits about social…

  • A Tie That Binds Across Cultures The New York Times 2014-01-10 Booming’s “Making It Last” column profiles baby boomer couples who have been together 25 years or more. Bob and Chiyoko Bermant met in 1973 as graduate students at the University of Kansas. Bob was majoring in psychology, and Chiyoko, who is Japanese, was studying…

  • Gov’t to overhaul services for multicultural families Yonhap News Agency Seoul, South Korea 2014-01-15 Shim Sun-ah SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Yonhap) — The government plans to streamline its support system for multicultural families to help them integrate into society, officials said Wednesday. The move comes as some existing services, including Korean-language education, have been redundant or…

  • Rite Of “Passing” CBS News 2007-10-28 Russ Mitchell For 23 years Bliss Broyard was white, living in tony Greenwich, Conn., isolated from people of color and influenced by the racial attitudes of her surroundings, reports CBS News’ Russ Mitchell. Asked if she used to tell black jokes, Broyard said: “I did, in high school and…

  • Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist by G. Reginald Daniel (review) Hispanic Review Volume 82, Number 1, Winter 2014 pages 116-119 DOI: 10.1353/hir.2014.0008 Mércia Santana Flannery, Lecturer of Portuguese Romance Languages Department University of Pennsylvania G. Reginald Daniel, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist, 336 pages, hardcover ISBN: 978-0-271-05246-5.…

  • UNC professor studies race, drug abuse The Daily Tar Heel University of North Carolina 2014-01-13 Erin Davis Growing up in rural North Carolina, Trenette Clark watched as some loved ones went to jail at young ages and others lost their children to the Child Welfare System. She came to wonder why some drug users’ behavior…