Month: September 2014

  • Making mixed babies Bump 2 Baby: Pregnancy & Mothering Blog 2014-09-11 Jody-Lan Castle, Linked Data Specialist BBC News As the world becomes increasingly more heterogeneous, having a mixed identity is increasingly common. It’s really important to make children aware of their family background. The memories of my own parents’ family histories had already begun to…

  • One drop or two: Mixed-race identity and politics in America with Sharon H. Chang Rabble Podcast Network 2014-09-09 Charlene Sayo, Co-host Andrew Sayo, Co-host Eirene Cloma, Co-host When Seattle-based researcher and writer Sharon H. Chang wrote an essay that detailed why she tells her mixed-race son that he’s Asian and not white, many readers were…

  • I am not Pocahontas The Weeklings (also in Salon) 2014-09-04 Elissa Washuta AS A COWLITZ Indian child, white-skinned and New Jersey-born, I grew up fielding the question, “How much Indian are you?” without any sense of its meaning. Once I was old enough to know that my mother was Indian and my father wasn’t, I began…

  • Chinese culture fails to make the grade for today’s mixed-race children South China Morning Post Hong Kong, China 2014-09-08 Lijia Zhang, Writer, Journalist, Social Commentator Lijia Zhang recounts her struggle to instill pride and love of all things Chinese in her daughters May, my 17-year-old elder daughter, told me the results of her school exams…

  • In Korea, Adoptees Fight To Change Culture That Sent Them Overseas Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-09-09 Steve Haruch In the Gwanak-gu neighborhood of Seoul, there is a box. Attached to the side of a building, the box resembles a book drop at a public library, only larger, and…

  • “No Rainbow Families” and the Problem with Race-Based Reproduction Policies Impact Ethics: Making a Difference in Bioethics 2014-09-08 Catherine Clune-Taylor, Doctoral Candidate Department of Philosophy University of Alberta, Canada Catherine Clune-Taylor suggests that we should target institutional and interpersonal racism rather than restrict individual reproductive choice A July 2014 Calgary Herald article revealed that Calgary’s…

  • Marina Silva: The political dynamo who has electrified the election season and wants to be Brazil’s first black woman president Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent 2014-09-05 Marina Silva: a pioneer in politics By Primeiros Negros, José Eustáquio Diniz Alves, and Luciana Lima The first black woman candidate…

  • The Penumbral Spaces of Nella Larsen’s Passing: Undecidable bodies, mobile identities, and the deconstruction of racial boundaries Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography Volume 13, Issue 3, 2006 pages 227-246 DOI: 10.1080/09663690600700972 Perry L. Carter, Assistant Professor of Human Geography Texas Tech University Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel, Passing, is a psychological drama…

  • Michele Norris to visit MSU Sept. 15 Michigan State University Today 2014-09-03 Award-winning journalist and National Public Radio contributor Michele Norris will visit MSU Sept. 15 to speak about her best-selling memoir, “The Grace of Silence,” one of the three selections in this year’s One Book, One Community program. This year’s OBOC program is coordinated…

  • Black Dox: Father Figure By Blacks: Canadian Black owned everything 2014-09-04 Nicole Franklin Zun Lee Father Figure – Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood Photographer: Zun Lee www.zunlee.com IG, Facebook: zunleephoto Twitter: @zunleephoto Project Timeframe: September 2011 – present Publisher/Contact/Pre-order: Ceibafoto LLC Book Release: September 19, 2014. Awards: Named on “PDN 30 2014,” Photo District…