Month: March 2014

  • Rutherford’s Bill Galloway reflects on genealogy, racial history NorthJersey.com Woodland Park, New Jersey Thursday, 2014-02-20 Kelly Nicholaides Bill Galloway, a resident with roots that go back to the 1920s in Rutherford, is proud of both his black roots and the “miscegenation” of his family. The longtime-Rutherford resident’s ancestors built a solid foundation with a focus…

  • The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880–1930; and Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans [Smithers Review] The Journal of American History Volume 100, Issue 4 (March 2014) pages 1222-1224 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jau065 Gregory D. Smithers, Associate Professor of History Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia Jolie A.…

  • Betwixt, Between and Beyond: Racial formation and “mixed race” identities in New Zealand and Singapore National University of Singapore 2013 345 pages Zarine Lia Rocha A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY “Mixed race” identities are increasingly important for academics and policy makers around the world. In many multicultural…

  • Being Mixed Race Women of the World Festival 2014 Southbank Centre Belvedere Road, London Blue Room, Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall Saturday, 2014-03-08, 13:30-15:00Z What is being ‘mixed race’? Is there such a thing as a mixed-race identity? In the 2011 census, over a million people in the UK ticked the ‘mixed race’ box—double…

  • Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race and Gender – Dorothy Roberts University of California, Berkeley Alumni House Friday, 2014-03-07, 17:00-19:30 PST (Local Time) Join us for a discussion with Prof. Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania Law School, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century.  Lecture…

  • The Racial Pecking Order in British Theatre and TV Media Diversified: Tackling the lack of diversity in UK media and the ubiquity of whiteness 2014-02-28 Daniel York I’ve been reading a book recently by the American sociologist David T. Wellman with the frankly terrifying title Portraits Of White Racism. I say terrifying because it conjures…

  • Featured Writer: Daniel York Banana Writers​: Where Asian writers get unpeeled 2013-10-11 P. P. Wong Daniel York is a successful scriptwriter, director and actor who is passionate about championing equal rights for creative East Asians. Born of mixed Chinese and English parentage, the talented British writer was selected as part of the Royal Court’s Unheard Voices initiative for emerging East Asian writers.…

  • ‘Chinese, on the Inside’ The New York Times 2014-03-03 Liz Mak, writer and multimedia producer Oakland, California Catie and Kimberly were adopted from China by a couple from Maine, who attempt to pass on a culture they’ve never known firsthand. About a decade ago, Barbara Cough adopted two girls from China, Kimberly and Catie. Barbara…

  • International Blackness vs. Homegrown Negroes: Lupita, Chimamanda, Thandie and me Alternet 2014-02-23 Esther Armah “She is very white!” Revered Swedish film critic Jannike Åhlund watches a clip of actress Thandie Newton playing Olanna, one of the Nigerian twin sisters in the film adaptation of the award-winning novel Half of a Yellow Sun by Nigerian author…

  • Mapping Interracial/Interethnic Married-Couple Households in the United States: 2010 United States Census Bureau Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-04-11 through 2013-04-13 Tallese D. Johnson, Population Division U.S. Census Bureau Rose M. Kreider, Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division U.S. Census Bureau Introduction This poster examines the…