Month: August 2014

  • Collaboration is Key to Psychology Professor Sam Sommers’ Research on Race and Ethnicity Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts School of Arts And Sciences August 2013 Anna Burgess Doctoral Student Sarah Gaither and a Team of Undergraduates Focus on Biracial Perceptions and Identity Flexibility “As a society, the way we think about questions of race and ethnicity…

  • How Ferguson could be America’s future Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-08-23 John Blake (CNN) — The protests in Ferguson, Missouri, have been described as a mirror into contemporary America, but they are also something else: A crystal ball. Look past the headlines — the debates over race and police militarization that have surfaced after the…

  • Let’s Talk About It: Multiracial Identity University of North Carolina, Charlotte Thursday, 2014-09-11, 12:30-13:30 EDT (Local TIme) Union 200 Led by the Multicultural Resource Center (MRC), the Let’s Talk It Discussion Series will focus on areas of diversity through prompts that spark discussion.  These discussions are open to all and will focus on one area…

  • Documentary reveals Jewish mother’s ‘Little White Lie’ The Times of Israel 2014-08-17 Rebecca Spence Lacey Schwartz’s film about reconciling her hidden black paternity to the Ashkenazi Jewish home she was raised in strikes universal themes SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — When Lacey Schwartz celebrated her bat mitzvah more than two decades ago in her hometown of…

  • American Pop Culture Hides, Reveals Multiracial Asian-Americans Voice of America 2014-08-03 Jim Stevenson The discussion of race in the United States has always been complex and often difficult. Yet in an overwhelmingly large percentage of families, it is not difficult to find some evidence of a multiracial influence. LeiLani Nishime is assistant professor of communications…

  • Who Are You? Multiracial Students and Microaggressions on College Campuses NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education 2014-08-01 Brittany Hunt Have you ever been in a situation where you were having a conversation with someone and then all of the sudden you feel them looking at you with a puzzled look on their face? Then…

  • Perceptions of Parents’ Ethnic Identities and the Personal Ethnic-Identity and Racial Attitudes of Biracial Adults Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 21, Number 1 (January 2015) pages 65-75 DOI: 10.1037/a0037542 Cesalie T. Stepney Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Psychology Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey…

  • Talking About Race – An Essay Ms. Food Queen: Cooking Across Difference July 2014 Christine Gregory In the Korean language, “heug–in sa ram” means “black person.” The word “heug” also means dirt. I realized this when I was in high school and confronted my mother about it. She bristled, and said that I was too…

  • Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach Oxford University Press 2014-08-01 528 pages 7-1/2 x 9-1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780199920013 Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach engages students in critical questions related to racial dynamics in the U.S. and around the world. Written in accessible,…

  • On the Trail of Brooklyn’s Underground Railroad The New York Times 2007-10-12 John Strausbaugh LAST month the City of New York gave Duffield Street in downtown Brooklyn an alternate name: Abolitionist Place. It’s an acknowledgment that long before Brooklyn was veined with subway lines, it was a hub of the Underground Railroad: the network of…