Month: April 2015

  • Gorgeous Black-And-White Portraits Explore The Meaning Of Multiracial Identities The Huffington Post 2015-03-30 Katherine Brooks, Senior Arts & Culture Editor “I began this project because I recognized that I was part of a underrepresented group of people,” artist Samantha Wall explained in an email to HuffPost. “It’s difficult to talk about multiraciality with individuals who…

  • New Book Explores Role of Race for First Lady Michelle Obama Time 2015-03-30 Maya Rhodan, Reporter Author paints the First Lady as the President’s rock, notes the impact her background would have on her future as the nation’s first black First Lady During her senior year at Princeton University, First Lady Michelle Obama couldn’t imagine…

  • Redefining — by not defining — biracialism The Daily Illini: The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 Tuesday, 2015-03-31 Audrey Majors, Opinions columnist Last week controversy arose over Japan’s 2015 Miss Universe contestant, Ariana Miyamoto, because she’s biracial— something critics, many of whom are Japanese, have taken issue with. Miyamoto has…