Month: August 2016

  • Recognizing the Need to Support Multiracial College Students Insight Into Diversity September 2016 Allen Kenneth Schaidle Roughly 2.4 percent of Americans identified as multiracial in the 2000 census. In 2010, that number increased to 2.9 percent, and the U.S. Census Bureau predicts that individuals identifying as multiracial will dramatically rise in the following decades. This increase…

  • Q&A: Sophomore creates group to discuss mixed-race issues The Ithican Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York 2016-08-24 Celisa Calacal, Opinion Editor Sophomore Walt Martzen created the group IC Mixed, where students can discuss mixed-race issues, a topic Martzen believes is often missing from conversations on race and identity. Jade Cardichon/The Ithacan This semester, sophomore Walt Martzen…

  • “Now, I have a black son in Baltimore,” the white police detective remembered thinking as he cradled his baby boy. Rachel L. Swarns, “‘I Have a Black Son in Baltimore’: Anxious New Parents and an Era of Unease,” The New York Times, August 23, 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/24/us/i-have-a-black-son-in-baltimore-anxious-new-parents-and-an-era-of-unease.html.

  • The mystery of the Melungeons The Economist 2016-08-24 VARDY, TENNESSEE AND BIG STONE GAP, VIRGINIA The story of an Appalachian people offers a timely parable of the nuanced history of race in America HEAD into Sneedville from the Clinch River, turn left at the courthouse and crawl up Newman’s Ridge. Do not be distracted by…

  • Essentialism and Racial Bias Jointly Contribute to the Categorization of Multiracial Individuals Psychological Science Volume 26, Number 10 (October 2015) pages 1639-1645 DIO: 10.1177/0956797615596436 Arnold K. Ho, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Organizational Studies University of Michigan Steven O. Roberts, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Psychology University of Michigan Susan A. Gelman, Distinguished University Professor of…

  • The JewAsian Phenomenon: Raising Jewish-Asian Families JewishBoston: The Vibe of the Tribe 2016-08-10 Judy Bolton-Fasman, Culture Reporter A new book, as well as a conversation with its authors, sheds light on a growing segment of the Jewish population—Jewish-Asian children who are raised as Jews. Helen Kim and Noah Leavitt are the authors of “JewAsian: Race,…

  • BALTIMORE — He assembled the crib and mounted the bookshelves. She unpacked the bedding and filled the closet with onesies and rompers. Then husband and wife stood in the nursery and worried. Bill Janu, a police officer, is white. Shanna Janu, a lawyer, is black. As they eagerly awaited their baby’s birth this spring, they…

  • On passing, wishing for darker skin, and finding your people: A conversation between two mulattos Fusion 2015-06-15 Collier Meyerson In 10th grade, I auditioned for the role of Julie in the musical Show Boat, one of the most famous portrayals of the tragic mulatto trope. I was cast, instead, as Queenie, the mammy. I deserved…

  • Episode 096: Nicholas Guyatt, The Origins of Racial Segregation in the United States Ben Franklin’s World: A Podcast About Early American History 2016-08-22 Liz Covart, Host and Historian Boston, Massachusetts Ever wonder how the United States’ problem with race developed and why early American reformers didn’t find a way to fix it during the earliest…

  • The changing faces of Singapore: Mixed race families Population.sg 2016-08-23 Karen Tee This little red dot may be tiny, but what it lacks in size, it makes up for in diversity. As a society traditionally made up of people of different cultures and backgrounds, coexistence and intermixing is a common theme in our daily experience…