Month: March 2015

  • MIXED Art Conference Mixed in Canada YMCA Central Toronto 20 Grosvenor Street Toronto, Ontario M4Y 2V5 Canada Saturday, 2015-05-02, 09:00-18:00 EDT (Local Time) M.I.X.E.D.: Multidisciplinary.Intersections.Xchanging.Empowering.Dialogue The aim of this multidisciplinary art conference is to co-create an inclusive dialogue about racialized mixed identities and lived realities through an intersectional lens. “Un-Conference” attendees and facilitators will be able…

  • Two decades later, the Midwestern independent hip-hop label is still going strong.

  • Allan Wolper Talks to Lacey Schwartz Conversations with Allan Wolper WBGO 88.3 FM Newark, New Jersey 2015-03-16 Allan Wolper, Professor of Journalism Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, Newark Lacey Schwartz has written, produced and directed a documentary, Little White Lie, detailing how she grew up as a white, Jewish girl in Woodstock,…

  • Millennials Are More Racist Than They Think Politico Magazine 2015-03-09 Sean McElwee Just Look at the Numbers News about race in America these days is almost universally negative. Longstanding wealth, income and employment gaps between whites and people of color are increasing, and tensions between police and minority communities around the country are on the…

  • The Culture of Curls: What Hair Really Means in Mixed Race Societies The Yale Globalist 2013-12-24 Isidora Stankovic Timothy Dwight College Yale University Look through any fashion magazine and you might notice something puzzling. Almost without exception, models of every race have the same sleek, straightened hair. The message from these media sources seems clear:…

  • This Passover Choose Judaism My Jewish Learning Be’chol Lashon 2015-03-10 Alex Barnett My wife and I are an interracial couple. I am a White, Ashkenazi Jewish man from New York. She is a Black woman from Detroit, raised in the Lutheran faith, who converted (to Jewish, not to White. She’s still Black). Our 3 year…

  • Daughter Discovers Father’s Black Lineage National Public Radio 2007-10-02 Farai Chideya, Host Famed literary critic Anatole Broyard carried a big secret most of his life. He was a black man passing as white. His daughter, Bliss Broyard, writes about how she learned of her father’s hidden life and explored her black ancestry in the memoir…

  • We are Afro-Mexican|”I am Blaxican” Life as Karen: Just setting my soul free. 2015-03-12 Karen Salinas This week I decided to interview my dad; my inspiration for this project. The interview was conducted in Spanish, the English version is translated! Esta semana decidi entrevistar a mi papa; la inspiracion para este proyecto. K: ¿De donde…

  • ‘A Chosen Exile:’ Examining African Americans Passing As White In America [VIDEO] NewsOne Now NewsOne 2015-02-27 Author Allyson Hobbs joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” to discuss her new book, “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life.” Hobbs an assistant professor of American History at Stanford University told Martin that when…

  • MIXED RACE 3.0 Cultural Weekly 2015-02-28 Ulli K. Ryder, Ph.D. Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts Ryder, Ulli K. and Marcia Alesan Dawkins (eds.), Mixed Race 3.0: Risk and Reward in the Digital Age (Los Angeles: USC Annenberg Press, 2015). We are scholars who have been thinking with a “mixed mind-set” for quite a while. We are…