Month: August 2016

  • ‘Blind Spots’ and Other Problems in Globally Blended Families The Wall Street Journal 2016-08-31 Tracy Slater When the parents are in the majority and the kids are in the minority Perhaps your child, like my two-year-old, and many other children in globally blended families, belongs to the world’s growing mixed-ethnicity population. The World Factbook finds a…

  • Jones: Kaepernick, Lochte cases are as different as black and white The Philadelphia Inquirer 2016-08-30 Solomon Jones SAN FRANCISCO 49ers Quarterback Colin Kaepernick sits down during the national anthem to protest America’s treatment of people of color, and he is accused of being a traitor to his country. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte is facing criminal…

  • Rodney Harrison sorry for saying Colin Kaepernick is ‘not black’ ESPN 2016-08-29 Former NFL player and current NBC analyst Rodney Harrison has apologized on Twitter after criticizing Colin Kaepernick and his refusal to stand for the national anthem while suggesting that the San Francisco 49ers quarterback is not black and doesn’t truly understand racism. In…

  • IN THE WHITE FRAME : An interview with mixed-race dancers Angel Langley & Jasmmine Ramgotra Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2016-08-30 Sharon H. Chang STRANGE COUPLING is an annual juried exhibition of collaborations between University of Washington (UW) student artists and local professional artists. Over a…

  • What Colin Kaepernick’s National Anthem Protest Tells Us About America Rolling Stone 2016-08-29 Morgan Jerkins When black athletes choose to point their aggression towards larger, systematic inequalities, there’s always backlash The role of the famous black athlete has been a polarizing one for as long as sports have dominated American headlines, going all the way…

  • The San Francisco 49ers quarterback on bucking expectations, riding out the haters and how he does it all with a healthy dose of style

  • Celebrating the 1st Annual Mixed Heritage Day at Dodger Stadium (not) Mixed (up): A Biracial Swirl in a Black and White World 2016-08-28 Shannon Luders-Manuel What happens when a young, mixed race boy asks his mother what ethnic day is meant for him? The Los Angeles Dodgers have special days for certain ethnicities, but none celebrating mixed…

  • Black Intellectual History and STEM: A Conversation with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein AAIHS: African American Intellectual History Society 2016-08-29 Greg Childs, Assistant Professor Departments of History and African and Afro-American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts This month, I interviewed Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on the intersections of black intellectual history and STEM. Dr. Prescod-Weinstein is a theoretical…

  • Paulette Ramsay’s study analyses cultural and literary material produced by Afro-Mexicans on the Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca, Mexico, to undermine and overturn claims of mestizaje or Mexican homogeneity.

  • Meet American Olympian Anthony Ervin: The Oldest-Ever Individual Olympic Swimming Gold Medalist Democracy Now! 2016-08-15 Amy Goodman, Host and Executive Producer While Michael Phelps dominated the Olympic headlines over the weekend by scoring a historic 23rd gold medal, another American male swimmer has also made history in Rio. Thirty-five-year-old Anthony Ervin became the oldest-ever individual…