Day: July 31, 2015

  • Walter White, 61, Dies in Home Here The New York Times 1955-03-22 Walter White, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, died last night of a heart attack at his home at his home, 242 East Sixty-eighth Street. He was 61 years old. Last October he twice entered the New…

  • Naming this era of racial contradictions The Boston Globe 2015-08-01 Farah Stockman We’re entering a new era of race relations in America — a crazy, conflicting, potentially explosive era yet to be named. Maybe it’s an era of white insecurity about racial identity as the country moves toward a nonwhite majority. Dylann Roof, who murdered…

  • Call for papers: “Mixed Race” in Asia 2015-07-10 This edited volume seeks to focus attention on the neglected topic of “mixed race” in the Asian region. “Mixed race” identities have been the subject of growing scholarly interest over the past two decades. In multicultural societies, increasing numbers of people of mixed ancestry are identifying themselves…

  • What It Was Like Being Mixed-Race Photographed By National Geographic Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2015-07-29 Sharon H Chang Remember these pictures? They were part of National Geographic’s mixed race photo campaign “Changing Faces” published in October 2013. “We’re becoming a country,” stated the magazine, “Where…