Month: February 2016

  • Participants Needed for Study on the Concept of Bi-Racial Ethnic Belongingness Saint Mary’s University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 2016-02-23 Jasmine Moreash The need to belong is a fundamental aspect of life. For bi-racial individuals, ethnic belongingness can be more complicated compared to a monoracial individual. Belongingness contributes to self-esteem and for bi-racial individuals their perceived…

  • DNA ancestry tests branded ‘meaningless’ The Telegraph 2013-03-07 Nick Collins, Science Correspondent Customers are being charged up to £300 to learn whether they have links to famous people or societies despite the fact many of the tests are not backed up by scientific evidence, experts said. The amount of DNA any individual inherits from relatives…

  • Filmmakers Behind ‘Invisible Roots’ on Finding Afro-Mexicans Living in Southern California Remezcla 2016-02-16 Walter Thompson-Hernández Los Angeles, California Photo: NOTIMEX/JAVIER LIRA OTERO Almost a year before the Mexican government officially acknowledged Afro-Mexicans as a distinct racial and ethnic group, directors Tiffany Walton and Lizz Mullis first began working on their film, Invisible Roots: Afro-Mexicans of…

  • Bocafloja Confronts Anti-Blackness Across the Americas in New Documentary ‘Nana Dijo’ Remezcla 2016-02-17 Walter Thompson-Hernández Los Angeles, California When musicians and filmmakers Bocafloja and Cambiowashere first set out to create Nana Dijo, a gripping documentary about the African diaspora in the Americas, both wanted to stray away from traditional documentary approaches that have tended to…

  • Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide William Morrow (an imprint of HarperCollins) 2015-09-08 384 pages Trimsize: 6 in (w) x 9 in (h) x 1.21 in (d) Hardcover ISBN: 9780062305251 Paperback ISBN: 9780062305268 E-book ISBN: 9780062305275 Joy-Ann Reid Barack Obama’s speech on the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the fiftieth anniversary of…

  • This photo of Obama and a little visitor at a Black History Month celebration is remarkable The Washington Post 2016-02-20 Janell Ross Clark Reynolds, 3, is greeted by President Obama during a Black History Month Celebration held Feb.18, 2016, at the White House in Washington, D.C. (Pete Souza/White House) For 3-year-old Clark Reynolds, Thursday began…

  • Storytelling matters to Stanford historian Allyson Hobbs Stanford News Stanford University, Stanford, California 2016-02-19 Kate Chesley, Associate Director of University Communications Allyson Hobbs and her award-winning book, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life ALLYSON HOBBS, assistant professor of American history, finds much of the inspiration for her research in the…

  • 9 Benefits of Being in an Intercultural Marriage Masala Mommas: An Online Magazine for Today’s Moms with a South Asian Connection 2016-02-17 Alexandra Madhavan My husband is from South India and I am Canadian. We are the living, walking, breathing epitome of cultural differences – he is Hindu, I am Catholic; he is a strict…

  • ASA 115: Mixed Race Expeiences University of California, Davis 2012-2016 Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies “Even after our first ‘black’ president ushered in a so-called ‘post racial America,’ we understood that there is much more to the race issue than what has been presented.” Using the theme of Race Traitors, this…

  • I sat beside Obama at the Black Lives Matter meeting. This was no political show The Guardian 2016-02-20 Brittany Packnett The author sits beside Barack Obama’s in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on 18 February. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP Some political meetings devolve into theater. Not this one: we all spoke direct truth to…