Month: February 2014

  • Mixed-race children ‘are being failed’ in treatment of mental health problems The Guardian 2014-02-22 Tracy McVeigh, Chief Reporter The Observer The fastest growing ethnic group in Britain is still being treated as if it is only integrated into black culture, says report Children of mixed race are at greater risk of suffering from mental health…

  • Mixed Experiences: Growing up mixed race – mental health and well-being Jessica Kingsley Publishers February 2014 96 pages 210mm x 148mm / 8.5in x 5.5in Paperback ISBN: 9781909391154 Dinah Morley and Cathy Street Mixed race is the fastest growing population group of children and young people in England and Wales. The diversity of the mixed…

  • MiC Drop: Let’s talk about race The Michigan Daily The Campus Newspaper of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 2014-01-20 Rima Fadlallah, Michigan in Color Editor Jerusaliem Gebreziabher, Michigan in Color Editor Kayla Upadhyaya, Michigan in Color Editor MiC check 1, 2. 1, 2. Can you hear us? Because we’re here. We are Michigan…

  • Hawai’i’s Interracial History, Culture, and Tradition: Construction and Deconstruction (Sawyer Seminar VIII) University of Southern California, University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library East Asian Seminar Room (110C) Friday, 2014-02-28, 09:00-13:00 PST (Local Time) How are islands connectors of flows of peoples and culture? What types of constructions and deconstructions of race and identity have influenced…

  • “Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey” Performance by Elizabeth Liang Arts at MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology Eastman Laboratories (Building 6) 2014-02-21, 18:00-20:30 EST (Local Time) Written and Performed by Elizabeth Liang Who are you when you’re from everywhere and nowhere? Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey is a funny and poignant one-woman show about growing up…

  • “The Red and The White: A Family Saga of the American West” presentation New Mexico State University Nason House 1070 University Ave Friday, 2014-02-21, 13:00-14:30 MST (Local Time) CLABS-Book Talk to be held Feb. 21 A Center for Latin American Border Studies-Book Talk titled “The Red and The White: A Family Saga of the American…

  • On Race, Medicine, and Reproduction: An Interview with Dorothy Roberts Bluestockings Magazine Brown University February 2014 (2014-02-14) Dorothy Roberts is a scholar, professor, author and social justice advocate, and currently the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She has published a range of groundbreaking articles and books analyzing issues…

  • Identity Politics of the Captivity Narrative after 1848 University of Nebraska Press 2006 160 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-4400-9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-2067-6 Andrea Tinnemeyer, English Teacher The College Prepartory School, Oakland, California Andrea Tinnemeyer’s book examines the nineteenth-century captivity narrative as a dynamic, complex genre that provided an ample medium for cultural critique, a revision of…

  • Kaa-tipeyimishoyaahk – ‘We are those who own ourselves’: A Political History of Métis Self-Determination in the North-West, 1830-1870 University of Victoria, British Columbia 2014 394 pages Adam James Patrick Gaudry Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in the Department of Indigenous Governance This dissertation offers an…

  • On Race and Medicine The Scientist: Exploring Lie, Inspiring Innovation Volume 28, Issue 2 (Febuary 2014) Keith Norris, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, College of Medicine and Science David Geffen School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles Until health care becomes truly personalized, race and ethnicity will continue to be important clues guiding medical treatments. Clinical…