Month: May 2014

  • Herb Jeffries, a.k.a. ‘Bronze Buckaroo’ of Song and Screen, Dies at 100 (or So) The New York Times 2014-05-26 William Yardley Sheelagh McNeill contributed research. Herb Jeffries, who sang with Duke Ellington and starred in early black westerns as a singing cowboy known as “the Bronze Buckaroo” — a nickname that evoked his malleable racial…

  •   “MUTT” at Impact Theatre—laughs, topic, and a great cast make it worth it Examinier.com 2014-05-12 John A. McMullen II Oakland Theater Examiner Sometimes a mediocre play jumps to life when you assemble an extraordinary cast with a primo director. Christopher Chen’s “MUTT” at Impact Theatre means to be sardonic and poignant. Some of the…

  • Kaneesha Parsard on (1)ne Drop and the Multiplicity of Blackness Climbing Vines: A Collection of Short Stories 2014-05-01 Janday Wilson When you think of blackness what do you see? Dr. Yaba Blay’s multiplatform project (1)ne Drop and book (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race complicate the answers to that question. In the book, visually…

  • Geraldo Rivera: On Being Jew-Rican, A Rare Mixed Breed Fox News Latino 2014-05-16 Geraldo Rivero, Senior Correspondent Fox News (From my speech May 14, 2014 at The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s Women’s Philanthropy luncheon) I’d like to talk about being Jewish in a Puerto Rican family by telling you the story of my…

  • Herb Jeffries, a jazz balladeer whose matinee-idol looks won him fame in the late 1930s as the “Bronze Buckaroo” — the first singing star of all-black cowboy movies for segregated audiences — died May 25 at a hospital in West Hills, Calif. He was widely believed to be 100, but for years he insisted he…

  • Mixed:  Four young alums open up about their multiracial heritage and how it shapes them Dartmouth Alumni Magzine May/June 2014 pages 42-47 Book Excerpt from: Garrod, Andrew, Christina Gómez, Robert Kilkenny, Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013). Seeking to be Whole By Shannon Joyce Prince ’09 Whenever I’ve…

  • The Box Doesn’t Fit by becky Martinez Commission for Social Justice Educators Blog 2014-03-04 Becky Martinez To give you context, I am coming off of an intense few weeks of facilitating workshops on Biracial Identity and, as typically happens, after each session there is a small contingent of people wanting to connect. Some share their…

  • The words “Latino” and “Hispanic” do not refer to a race—they refer to a multiracial ethnicity composed primarily of indigenous, European and African peoples and, most commonly, people of mixed race. In Latin America, there’s lots of different ways to describe people of mixed race—mestizo (mixed European and indigenous heritage) and mulato (mixed European and…

  • The Census Can’t Fit Latinos Into A Race Box And It’s Causing More Confusion The Huffington Post 2014-05-22 Roque Planas, Editor Pew revealed the findings of a study this month that shows some 2.5 million U.S. Latinos changed their race category from “some other race” to “white” between the 2000 and 2010 censuses. The news…

  • Mixed Feelings North by Northwestern Northwestern University’s leading independent online publication Evanston, Illinois 2014-05-22 Sarah Turbin, Class 0f 2016 Medill School of Journalism There’s no question quite like it. “What are you?” has trailed behind me my whole life, tapping me on the shoulder with a different lilt to its tone each time: curious, doubtful,…