Month: February 2015

  • Memories of Metis Women of Saint-Eustache, Manitoba — (1910-1980) Oral History Forum/Forum d’histoire orale Volumes 19-20 (1999-2000) pages 90-111 Nicole St-Onge, Professor of History University of Ottawa Introductory Comments In an article entitled “Hired Men: Ontario Agricultural Wage Labour in Historical Perspective” Joy Parr wrote the following, telling,  words: Scholars too have claimed that from the…

  • Association of Mixed Students hosts celebratory ‘Loving Week’ Student Life: the independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis since 1878 Volume 136, Number 38 (Thursday, 2015-02-12) Page 3 Noa Yadidi, Staff Reporter Featuring speed dating, free cupcakes and a co-programmed dance, this year’s Loving Week, hosted by the Association of Mixed Students, kicked off…

  • One Playwright’s ‘Obligation’ To Confront Race And Identity In The U.S. Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity All Things Considered National Public Radio 2015-02-16 Jeff Lunden Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins may be only 30 years old, but he’s already compiled an impressive resume. His theatrical works, which look at race and identity in America,…

  • Laura Kina: Blue Hawai’i Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery New Jersey City University Hepburn Hall, Room 323 2039 Kennedy Boulevard Jersey City, New Jersey 2015-01-27 through 2015-03-03 Artist Reception: 2015-01-29, 16:30-19:30 EST (Local Time) Artist Talk: 2015-03-02, 17:30-18:30 EST (Local Time) Laura Kina, Canefield Workers, 2013, oil on canvas, 30 x 45 inches. “You won’t find…

  • Dorothy Roberts: Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race University of California, Los Angeles School of Law 385 Charles E. Young Drive East 1242 Law Building Los Angeles, California 90095 2015-02-19, 17:00-18:30 PST (Local Time) Room: TBD Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner…

  • Mixed 101: Creating a Space to Explore Mixed Race Identity Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27708 Counseling & Psych Services (CAPS) Resource Room 0010 Bryan Center – Multicultural Center Thursdays, 17:00-18:30 EST (Local Time) on February 12, 19, 26, and March 5 Marcella Wagner and Cat Goyeneche CAPS is offering a weekly group for students…

  • One Drop of Love Northern Arizona University Ashurst Hall Flagstaff, Arizona Wednesday, 2015-02-18, 18:00 MST (Local Time) Performed by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni. Presented by NAU College of Education One Drop of Love, is an hour-long one woman show. This funny, interactive and moving memoir explores history, family, race, class, justice and love and takes audiences from…

  • Are Mixed Race Asian/Whites, “Basically White”? Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2015-02-17 Sharon H. Chang [She] never told the son who was crippled by polio about her relationship with his father. All she said was that the man was an American, a sergeant in the Army.…

  • Once White in America Nation of Change 2015-02-16 Jane Lazarre Jane Lazarre provides a very intimate post-Ferguson view of what it means to her to raise her two black sons in the “afterlife of such a world.” Are we living in a world of American barbarism? For Adam and Khary Black bodies swingin’ in the…

  • Brother from Another Mother The New Yorker 2015-02-23 Zadie Smith Key and Peele’s chameleon comedy. The wigs on “Key and Peele” are the hardest-working hairpieces in show business. Individually made, using pots of hair clearly labelled—“Short Black/Brown, Human,” “Long Black, Human”—they are destined for the heads of a dazzling array of characters: old white sportscasters…