Month: October 2014

  • Should “Latino” be a Race on the Census? National Institute for Latino Policy Guest Commentary 2014-10-26 Thomas Lopez, President Multiracial Americans of Southern California Few questions cause as much existential angst among Latino intellectuals as this one. The Latino origin question was added to the Census in such a hurry back in 1970, that little…

  • The End of Race As We Know It? Stanford+Connects Stanford University 2014-10-09 Michele Elam, Professor of English Stanford University Sharing demographic shifts and a personal story about the use of her photograph in various advertisements, Professor Michele Elam traces multiracial identities from the 1940s to present day. In this talk, she explores how society understands…

  • I was a typical Southie kid, one of six, born to a single mother, raised in a triple-decker, surrounded by Whitey Bulger’s violence and fierce Irish pride. There was only one thing that kept me on the outside: Despite my mother’s claims to the contrary, we were black.

  • On blackness and autism, identity and essence Ray Hemachandra @ Golden Moon Publishing: Autism, spirit, beauty. Compassion. Love. Kindness. Sparks of light. 2014-02-24 Ray Hemachandra Often I’m asked “What are you?” Racial and ethnic identity still inform so much in our culture. The question asked really is a question of identity. “What are you?” masks…

  • Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial by Ralina L. Joseph (review) [Ardizzone] African American Review Volume 46, Number 4, Winter 2013 pages 787-790 DOI: 10.1353/afa.2013.0105 Heidi Ardizzone, Assistant Professor of American Studies Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri Joseph, Ralina L., Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the…

  • ‘I Hope My Son Stays White’ Ebony News & Views 2014-09-02 Calvin Hennick A White father of a biracial son admits his fears for what happens when his child gets older and can no longer ‘pass‘ I am a white man, and part of the privilege that comes along with that fact is this: I…

  • M.I.X.E.D: Multidisciplinary.Intersectional.Xchanging.Empowering.Dialogues Art Show Call for Entries 2014-08-29 M.I.X.E.D. is a 100% volunteer run event & art show created in order to make space for progressive discussion around mixed-race identity and our many other intersecting identities. To learn more about “intersectionality”, please visit: http://mixed-me.ca/intersectionality This year’s event will take place on Saturday May 2nd, 2015.…

  • Call for Submissions: “Black and White: Parenting on the Colorline,” an anthology edited by Caroline Berz, Jessie Scanlon and Kim DaCosta When General Mills aired a Cheerios commercial featuring a family with a white mother, a black father and a biracial child, many viewers reacted positively, but the ad’s YouTube page was filled with so…

  • Why Latinos won’t become white Al Jazeera America 2014-10-22 Gabriel Arana Assuming Latinos will join the white majority ignores the stark divisions in a racially diverse group In the lead-up to the midterms, President Barack Obama has been parroting the conventional wisdom about the GOP’s future: Republicans are doomed if they keep up their opposition…

  • Take the current Irish dance “it” girl, Julia O’Rourke. She was born in New York, and has Filipino and Irish ancestry. At age 15, she is a two-time world champion and star of the Irish dance documentary “Jig.” That film follows dancers from around the world who are training for and traveling to the 2010…