Month: September 2016

  • A space of their own? Yale News 2016-09-21 Noah Kim, Staff Reporter Multiracial students at Yale Haleigh Larson ’18 spent her North Dakotan childhood in a community she characterizes as “almost completely Scandinavian.” She and her two siblings, the adopted children of white parents, are some of the few residents of color in the entire…

  • Mixed race children celebrate their ‘cultural cocktail’ heritage Times Live Johannesburg, South Africa 2016-09-23 Nomahlubi Jordaan, Courts and Law Reporter Food‚ language and tradition of diverse cultures are the essence of the heritage of children born from multiracial families. Mark Andrew Sunners‚ a hip hop producer‚ was born in Liverpool in England from a white…

  • A new exhibition in London challenges the perceptions of what Irish people look like

  • Canada’s racial divide: Confronting racism in our own backyard The Globe and Mail 2016-09-26 Tavia Grant, Reporter Nova Browning Rutherford, who is half black and half white, and has lived in Ontario, Alberta and Los Angeles, poses for a photo at her home in Mississauga, Ont. on Friday. (Michelle Siu for The Globe and Mail)…

  • Afro-Latinos Have a Well-Deserved Place at the New National Museum of African American History Remezcla 2016-09-27 Yara Simón, Trending Editor This weekend marked the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. After Rep. John Lewis and others spent decades battling Congress for funding, the museum opened its doors on Sunday from…

  • For Affirmative Action, Brazil Sets Up Controversial Boards To Determine Race Parallels: Many Stories, One World National Public Radio 2016-09-29 Lulu Garcia-Navarro, South America Correspondent When the test scores came out, Lucas Siqueira, 27, was really excited. His high mark on the Foreign Service exam earned him a coveted position at Brazil’s highly competitive Ministry…

  • Brown Bodies, White Babies: The Politics of Cross-Racial Surrogacy New York University Press September 2016 320 pages Cloth ISBN: 9781479808175 Paper ISBN: 9781479894864 Laura Harrison, Assistant Professor Department of Gender and Women’s Studies Minnesota State University, Mankato Brown Bodies, White Babies focuses on the practice of cross-racial gestational surrogacy, in which a woman—through in-vitro fertilization…

  • ‘Pigmentocracy’ a Major Factor in Brazil, Venezuela Turmoil Fordham Law News: From New York City To You 2016-08-11 Ray Legendre A global audience watched Brazil unveil the 2016 Olympics earlier this month with a flashy, jubilant opening ceremony that celebrated its racial diversity and belied its ongoing political and economic strife. But acting President Michel…

  • Towne Street Theatre Announces Special Events During the Limited Engagement Run of PassingSOLO BroadwayWorld.com Los Angeles 2016-09-21 Towne Street Theatre, L.A.’s premiere African-American Theatre Company, is proud to announce that there will be a number of special events during the limited engagement run of “PassingSOLO.” The production, which runs for three weeks only from October…

  • A hidden bias against interracial couples The Seattle Times 2016-09-23 Allison Skinner, Postdoctoral Researcher Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences University of Washington Although most white Americans self-report little to no racial bias against black people, they tend to show robust implicit, or unconscious, biases. NEXT year marks the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme…