Month: July 2015

  • Long Time No See: A memoir of fathers, daughters and games of chance Periscope 2015-07-24 336 pages 204mm x 138mm Paperback ISBN: 9781859643969 Hannah Lowe Hannah Lowe’s father “Chick”, a half-Chinese, half-black Jamaican immigrant, worked long hours at night to support his family – except Chick was no ordinary working man. A legendary gambler, he…

  • Notable Black and Mixed Race men in Renaissance Europe Bino & Fino: Embracing My Child’s Black African Identity 2015-07-23 Maria Tumolo We are thrilled to bring you our very first guest post from children’s author Maria Tumolo. She is also writes a blog called Tiger Tales which explores parenting as an expat mixed heritage family.…

  • “The Book of Colors” Duke Divinity School News Durham, North Carolina Wednesday, 2015-05-13 Ray Barfield, associate professor of pediatrics and Christian philosophy at Duke Divinity School, has written his first novel, “The Book of Colors,” about a 19-year-old mixed race pregnant girl who faces poverty and finds redemption in an unlikely community of skid row…

  • Here’s what I did when racists complained about an interracial family in my magazine The Washington Post 2015-07-27 Scott Vogel, Editor-in-Chief Houstonia, a city magazine based in Houston, Texas Offended by this image? Houstonia magazine doesn’t want your business. (Photo by Chris Skiles/Houstonia) Don’t compare me to business owners who refuse to serve LGBT customers…

  • How can a 19-year-old, mixed-race girl who grew up in a crack house and is now pregnant be so innocent? Yslea is full of contradictions, though, seeming both young and old, innocent and wise. Her spirit is surprising, given all the pain she has endured, and that’s the counterpoint this story offers—while she sees pain…

  • Q. What have you learned about race while working on this documentary? A. That the conversation has just started. And a lot of the time it’s framed as black and white. Well, where do Latinos and Asians fit in that conversation? Where do biracial people fit into that conversation? Where do multiracial people fit into…

  • The colour black, Mixed-race people Thinking Allowed BBC Radio 4 2015-07-22 Laurie Taylor, Host Black: the cultural and historical meaning of the darkest colour. From the ‘little black dress’ which epitomises chic, to its links to death, depression and evil, ‘black’ embodies many contrasting values. White Europeans exploited the negative associations of ‘black’ in enslaving…

  • As A White Mom, Helping My Multiracial Kids Feel At Home In Their Skin Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-07-24 Kristen Green Last year, after months of watching — and re-watching — the movie Frozen, my daughter Selma, who is 6, announced she didn’t want to be brown. “I…

  • Rachel Dolezal Has Hijacked what It Means To Be Mixed-Race In America ARMED 2015-07-05 Sophia Softky Since the Rachel Dolezal trainwreck began unfolding, each day has brought ever-weirder allegations to light. From her upbringing, days at Howard University, involvement in the NAACP, and position as an Africana Studies professor – along with the predictable flood…

  • Meet the black woman raised to believe she was white The Telegraph 2015-07-12 Jane Mulkerrins Schwartz believes that racial identity is “fluid and contextual” Photo: Nicholas Calcott Growing up, Lacey Schwartz always felt different. It wasn’t until her late teens that she discovered the truth about her parentage – and her race “Throughout my life,…