Month: December 2014

  • I Am a Blacktina: Reflections on Being an Afro-Cuban in the U.S. For Harriet 2014-12-28 Felice León I am a Blacktina. Get it: Black [La]tina? A friend gave me this nickname years ago, and it has stuck. My father is Afro-Cuban, and my mother Afro-American. I identify with both cultures and have tried to balance…

  • Museum Offers Interactive Oral History of Mixed Race Brooklynites NY1 News New York, New York 2014-12-29 Jeanine Ramirez, Brooklyn Reporter A new interactive website offers an interracial, multi-ethnic view of Brookynites. NY1’s Jeanine Ramirez filed the following report. Deborah Schwartz clicks on the latest resource at the Brooklyn Historical Society, an oral history project about…

  • In conservative, dignified Pasadena, Calif.,—a city whose traditional reserve is normally broken only once annually by the famed New Year’s Day “Tournament Of Roses”—a tawny-complexioned mother of two broke the tranquility ahead of schedule.

  • “Love Letter to My Ancestors:” Representing Traumatic Memory in Jackie Kay’s The Lamplighter Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies Volume 36, Number 2 (December 2014) pages 161-182 Petra Tournay-Theodotou, Associate Professor of English European University Cyprus, Engomi, Nicosia-Cyprus Jackie Kay’s The Lamplighter, published in 2008, was first broadcast on BBC radio in…

  • Intermarried Couples and “Multiculturalism” in Japan CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture ISSN 1481-4374 Volume 15, Issue 2 (2013) DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.2216 Kaori Mori Want Shibaura Institute of Technology In her article “Intermarried Couples and ‘Multiculturalism’ in Japan” Kaori Mori Want discusses why hyphenated names for the children of intermarried children are important for the achievement of…

  • ‘Everything I Never Told You’ by Celeste Ng: Unspoken Thoughts About Being Mixed-Race Hapa Mama: Asian Fusion Family and Food 2014-12-28 Grace Hwang Lynch Celeste Ng’s debut novel Everything I Never Told You: A Novel has been at the top of many best books of 2014 lists — and for good reason. It’s a quick…

  • A Mestiza in the Borderlands: Margarita Cota-Cárdenas Puppet Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies Volume 34, Number 1 (June 2012) pages 47-62 Ana María Manzanas Calvo Department of American Literature and Culture Universidad de Salamanca, Spain The article explores the formal and conceptual complexities of a novella that has so far escaped…

  • Why mixed-race comic was ‘born a crime’ Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-12-04 Jessica Ellis Teo Kermeliotis London (CNN) — When it comes to getting ready for a show, fast-rising South African comedian Trevor Noah has it all figured out. “My ideal setting is I walk from the streets, backstage and straight onto the stage,” says…

  • Woman turned away from 1958 Rose Parade because of race to ride in 2015 parade Eyewitness News, KABC 7 Los Angeles, California 2014-12-27 Leanne Suter, Reporter PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) — A woman who was denied the honor of riding in the Rose Parade in 1958 because of her race will finally get her chance in…

  • Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell (Born 1921): Teaching America that black was beautiful. The Lives They Lived The New York Times Magazine 2014-12-25 Touré DeVore-Mitchell during her modeling days. Photograph by Rupert Callender from the DeVore family archive One day in 1946, a black woman showed up at the Vogue School of Modeling in New York, seeking to…