Month: February 2016

  • Mixed marriages are changing the way we think about our race The Washington Post 2016-02-17 Jeff Guo For all the talk about immigrants refusing to embrace American ways — a defining controversy of this GOP presidential race — the evidence has been scant. The National Academies of Sciences deflated most of the myths in a…

  • No, Bill Clinton, we’re not ‘all mixed race’ – and you of all people should know that The Independent London, United Kingdom 2016-02-15 Remi Joseph Salisbury If you’re claiming you’re ‘colour-blind’, you’re not being progressive. You’re part of the problem In a seemingly fear-fuelled attempt to halt the rapidly growing popularity of Bernie Sanders, Hillary…

  • Valentine’s Day special! On love, race and history in Ghana Africa is a Country 2016-02-14 Dan Magaziner, Associate Professor of History Yale University Despite colonial administrators’ attempts to sabotage their marriage plans, Brendan (a district commissioner) and Felicia Knight wed in 1945. Fifteen years later, Felicia staged a successful one-woman-protest in front of Flagstaff House…

  • Rising Sun, “Rising Soul”: Mixed Race Japanese of African Descent University of Southern California, University Park Campus Los Angeles, California Montgomery Ross Fisher Building (MRF) Montgomery Ross Fisher Auditorium (340) Friday, 2016-02-26, 14:00-17:00 PST (Local Time) Rising Soul is a documentary film that explores the question, “What is the impact of Afro-Japanese offspring and their…

  • Let Ohio Vote First The New York Times 2016-02-16 Emma Roller We, as voters and election-obsessed bystanders, made it past the first two contests in this eons-long presidential primary, but seven candidates weren’t so lucky. The winnowed-down field has now moved on to the warmer vote-seeking climes of Nevada and South Carolina. Before moving on…

  • In an increasingly multiracial America, identity is a fluid thing 89.3 KPCC: Southern California Public Radio Pasadena, California 2016-02-16 Leslie Berestein Rojas, Immigration and Emerging Communities Reporter If there’s any part of town that’s solidly Latino, it’s where Walter Thompson Hernandez grew up, in Huntington Park. The city, on the southeast fringe of Los Angeles,…

  • Music does not discriminate | Chi Chi Nwanoku | TEDxEuston TEDx Talks 2016-01-14 Chi Chi Nwanoku speaks at a 2015 TEDx event in London. Chi-Chi Nwanoku MBE is the Founder, Artistic Director of Chineke!, Europe’s first classical orchestra of Black and Ethnic Minority musicians and is also the Principal Double bassist and founder of the…

  • Ordinary Yet Infamous: Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso Not Even Past: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” William Faulkner 2016-02-01 Kali Nicole Gross, Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin Adapted from Kali Nicole Gross’s new book: Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A…

  • How and why did they do it? Harriet Beecher Stowe House 2950 Gilbert Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio 45206 Sunday, 2016-02-28, 13:00 EST (Local Time) Between the the 18th and mid-20th centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and communities. Allyson Hobbs, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of History, Stanford University, will…

  • Soledad O’Brien on #OscarsSoWhite: Why Did It Take So Long to Have This Discussion? The Hollywood Reporter 2016-01-28 Soledad O’Brien, Founder and CEO Starfish Media Group Soledad O’Brien Getty Images In my experience, diversity doesn’t just “happen.” It has to be very intentional. People have to have a genuine desire to make a change. It’s…