Mixed Race Studies

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Day: July 17, 2015

  • My Name is Cool: Stories from a Cuban-Irish-American Storyteller

    Born in Boston to a Cuban father and an Irish-American mother, Antonio Sacre is one of the few leprecanos on the national speaking circuit.

  • The black president some worried about has arrived

    The black president some worried about has arrived The Washington Post 2015-07-15 Janell Ross, Reporter There’s this thing people sometimes say down South. So-and-so is “acting brand new.” Sometimes that’s a reference to people behaving like they don’t know old friends and family — that they have evolved past their old crowd. Sometimes that’s Southern-speak…

  • In The Writer’s Room, One Woman Quietly Makes Late Night History

    In The Writer’s Room, One Woman Quietly Makes Late Night History Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-07-12 Eric Deggans, TV Critic How do you write jokes for a TV comedy about race and culture when there are riots over how police treat black suspects, and a gunman just shot…

  • The sweetness of forbidden fruit: Interracial daters are more attractive than intraracial daters

    The sweetness of forbidden fruit: Interracial daters are more attractive than intraracial daters Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Volume 32, Number 5 (August 2015) pages 650-666 DOI: 10.1177/0265407514541074 Karen Wu Department of Psychology University of California, Irvine Chuansheng Chen, Chancellor’s Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior and Education University of California, Irvine Ellen Greenberger,…

  • Black Dancers, White Ballets

    Black Dancers, White Ballets The New York Times 2015-07-15 Laurie A. Woodard New York University MISTY COPELAND’S elevation to principal dancer with American Ballet Theater is a tremendous accomplishment for her as a ballet dancer and as an African-American ballerina. Neither her talent nor her achievement should be underestimated. But even as she reaches the…

  • The Global African – Mexican Afro-descendants

    The Global African – Mexican Afro-descendants The Global African 2014-12-03 Bill Fletcher, Host Randal Archibold, Bureau Chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean The New York Times (Author of the article “Negro? Prieto? Moreno? A Question of Identity for Black Mexicans”) William Loren Katz Author of: Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage Each week on…