Month: September 2015

  • All Mixed Up: examining mixed children and unions The Source Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Volume 16, Issue 5 (September 8-22, 2015) Florence Hwang Sharon Chang says she embodies “mixedness.” Chang’s thoughtful examination about growing up multiracial at this year’s Hapapalooza festival: “Raising Mixed Kids: Family Workshop” will be at the Heartwood Community Café, Sept. 19…

  • Spirituality can help us to transcend race consciousness The Orlando Sentinel Orlando, Florida 2015-09-02 Charles Michael Byrd, Guest columnist As someone whom society views as racially mixed, traversing a spiritual path was indispensable for me to achieve happiness by resolving the internal conflicts arising from America’s obsession with the politics of racial identity.. Ultimately the…

  • The Lives of Frederick Douglass Harvard University Press February 2016 350 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches 9 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780674055810 Robert S. Levine, Professor of English and a Distinguished University Professor University of Maryland Frederick Douglass’s fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of…

  • Blended Families Mixed Roots Stories 2015-09-02 Tru Leverette, Associate Professor of English University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida What does it mean to call a family blended? The term still refers to families formed after divorce and remarriage—step-parents and step-children and step-siblings pieced together in new patterns. The term can also encompass families that are…

  • Characterizing Race/Ethnicity and Genetic Ancestry for 100,000 Subjects in the Genetic Epidemiology Research on Adult Health and Aging (GERA) Cohort Genetics August 1, 2015, Volume 200, Number 4 pages 1285-1295 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.178616 Yambazi Banda Mark N. Kvale Thomas J. Hoffmann Stephanie E. Hesselson Dilrini Ranatunga Hua Tang Chiara Sabatti Lisa A. Croen Brad P. Dispensa…

  • Privilege And Pressure: A Memoir Of Growing Up Black And Elite In ‘Negroland’ Code Switch: Fronties of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-09-08 Terry Gross, Host Fresh Air Growing up in the 1950s, Margo Jefferson was part of Chicago’s black upper class. The daughter of a prominent doctor and his socialite wife, Jefferson…

  • ‘Negroland’ by Margo Jefferson The Boston Globe 2015-09-05 Donna Bailey Nurse While a student at University High in Chicago in the early 1960s, Margo Jefferson was introduced to the essays of James Baldwin. The future New York Times drama critic and Pulitzer Prize winner was struck by passages in “Notes of a Native Son’’: “‘One…

  • The top 13 Jewish newsmakers of 5775 JTA: Jewish Telegraphic Agency 2015-08-26 Julie Wiener (JTA) — With the Jewish year winding down, here’s a look back at 13 Jews who repeatedly made the news in 5775. Whether you love them or hate them — or your feelings are purely pareve — it’s hard to deny…

  • Negroland: A Memoir Pantheon 2015-09-08 256 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0307378453 eBook ISBN: Margo Jefferson At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac—here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author’s rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing itself from…

  • What Are You? A Personal Poetry Reading Slide Share 2013-10-18 Gerry Yokota, Professor Osaka University, Osaka, Japan My reading of the 1971 poem by Nobuko JoAnne Miyamoto when I was young kids used to ask me what are you? I’d tell them what my mom told me I’m an American Chin Chin Chinaman you’re a…