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Month: January 2015

  • Mixed Race Identities: Written by Peter J. Aspinall and Miri Song

    Mixed Race Identities: Written by Peter J. Aspinall and Miri Song The Kelvingrove Review Issue 13: Dialogue Across Decades (2014-05-27) 5 pages Mengxi Pang Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Aspinall, Peter J. and Miri Song, Mixed Race Identities (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 218 pp. As the fastest growing population…

  • Social representations of ‘mixed-race’ in early twenty-first-century Britain: content, limitations, and counter-narratives

    Social representations of ‘mixed-race’ in early twenty-first-century Britain: content, limitations, and counter-narratives Ethnic and Racial Studies Published online: 2015-01-23 19 pages DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.992924 Peter J. Aspinall, Emeritus Reader in Public Health Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent, United Kingdom Over the last two decades, lay and professional interest in Britain’s ‘mixed-race’ population…

  • More Than a Knapsack: The White Supremacy Flower as a New Model for Teaching Racism

    This article suggests that White supremacy versus White privilege provides a clearer and more accurate conceptual understanding of how racism operates, evolves, and sustains itself. This article suggests a specific model for teaching White supremacy, the White supremacy flower, and describes the application and benefits of the model.

  • From an Intimate Distance: A Mixed Perspective on Embracing Gratitude

    From an Intimate Distance: A Mixed Perspective on Embracing Gratitude Mixed Roots Stories 2015-01-08 Kaily Heitz, Guest Blog Coordinator “The problem is not that we all have these different view of things, it is that we each consider our views the only reality. We forget that life is truly a matter of perspective.” –angel Williams,…

  • Overseas American: Growing Up Gringo in the Tropics

    Born in 1941 of a Hawaiian mother and a white father, Gene H. Bell-Villada, grew up an overseas American citizen. An outsider wherever he landed, he never had a ready answer to the innocuous question “Where are you from?”

  • Race and identity in Krazy Kat: Performance, Aesthetics, Perspectives

    Race and identity in Krazy Kat: Performance, Aesthetics, Perspectives University of Oregon June 2014 79 pages Zane Mowery A Thesis Presented to the Department of English and the Robert D. Clark Honors College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts This work marks an attempt to redirect the focus…

  • The Passing of Passing: A Peculiarly American Racial Tradition Approaches Irrelevance

    The Passing of Passing: A Peculiarly American Racial Tradition Approaches Irrelevance BlackPast.org: Remembered & Reclaimed 2014-12-14 Robert Fikes Jr., Reference Librarian San Diego State University, San Diego, California Three Harlem Women, ca. 1925 In the article below, independent scholar Robert Fikes Jr., explores a centuries-old process in the United States where African Americans with no…

  • Kevin Costner Hopes His New Movie Redefines How People Think About Race

    Kevin Costner Hopes His New Movie Redefines How People Think About Race The Huffington Post 2015-01-22 Sasha Bronner, Los Angeles Editor Kevin Costner, who just turned 60 earlier this week, can do a lot of things. “I can make a love story. I can make the American baseball movie. I can make the political thriller,…

  • The Face of Skin, Inc.: An Interview with Chinyere Evelyn Uku by Thomas Sayers Ellis

    The Face of Skin, Inc.: An Interview with Chinyere Evelyn Uku by Thomas Sayers Ellis Graywolf Press August 2013 The cover image of Thomas Sayers Ellis’s Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems features Ellis’s own black-and-white photograph of Chinyere Evelyn Uku, an African woman from Nigeria who has albinism. On the release of the paperback edition…

  • Oxherding Tale: A Novel

    Oxherding Tale: A Novel Scribner (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) 1982 208 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780743264495 eBook ISBN: 9780743277419 Charles Johnson, Pollock Professor of English University of Washington, Seattle One night in the antebellum South, a slave owner and his African-American butler stay up to all hours until, too drunk to face their wives,…