Day: December 9, 2015

  • Virtual release party for ‘Raising Mixed Race’ – December 11th, 2015 Facebook Release Party 2015-12-11, 17:30-21:30Z (09:30-13:30 PST) Join us for giveaways, Q&A, discussion, and much more as we celebrate the launch of Raising Mixed Race. Publishing in December 2015, Raising Mixed Race by Sharon Chang is the first book to examine the complex task…

  • Analogizing Interracial and Same-Sex Marriage Philosophy and Rhetoric Volume 48, Number 4, 2015 pages 561-582 Isaac West, Associate Professor of Communication Studies Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee “Like race” analogies have been critiqued from various perspectives, and this article enters that conversation to engage those criticisms from a rhetorical perspective. In short, this article makes a…

  • Crossing the Line: Multiracial Comedians University of Michigan Shapiro Undergraduate Library 919 South University Avenue Screening Room 2160 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1185 2016-01-21, 16:00-17:00 CST (Local Time) Karen E Downing, Host Contact This full-length documentary (2007, 59 mins.) analyzes how mixed-race comedians mediate multiracial identities and humor. Crossing lines of racial, ethnic, and cultural acceptability…

  • Chasing Daybreak: A Film About Mixed Race in America University of Michigan Shapiro Undergraduate Library 919 South University Avenue Screening Room 2160 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1185 2016-01-19, 12:00-14:00 CST (Local Time) Karen E Downing, Host Contact This is one of a year-long series of events that explore what it means to be multiracial in a…

  • Sock and Buskin’s new production combines history and mysticism The Brown Daily Herald Providence, Rhode Island 2015-11-16 Jennifer Shook, Staff Writer ‘The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry’ examines journey of Black Seminoles to Oklahoma In Sock and Buskin’s newest production “The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry,” legend and history come together to present…

  • People Of Color With Albinism Ask: Where Do I Belong? Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-12-07 Anjuli Sastry Growing up, Natalie Devora always questioned how she fit into her African-American family. “Everyone was brown, and then there was me,” Devora says. “I’m a white-skinned black woman. That’s how I…