Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

recent posts

about

Tag: NBC News

  • New Book Confronts Colorism in 21st Century America

    New Book Confronts Colorism in 21st Century America NBC News 2016-12-21 Lesley-Ann Brown “The Masque of Blackness” (1605) is an early Jacobean era “masque” — a popular form of 16th & 17th century amateur dramatic theatre — and is quite possibly the first instance in English literature where the topic of skin color is not…

  • Memoir Uncovers One Woman’s Painful Search for Racial Identity

    Memoir Uncovers One Woman’s Painful Search for Racial Identity NBC News 2016-09-08 Brooke Obie When award-winning journalist Sil-Lai Abrams finally sat down to write her memoir, she hoped to stick to her 8-month contract. Instead, it took Abrams 3.5 years to dive into the pain of her upbringing and emerge ready to tell her story…

  • ‘War Brides of Japan’ To Take Focus in New Documentary

    ‘War Brides of Japan’ To Take Focus in New Documentary NBC News 2016-08-10 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Journalist and filmmaker Yayoi Lena Winfrey is looking for more Japanese “war brides” to interview as she completes the filming for her feature-length documentary film, “War Brides of Japan.” With many of these women in their mid-80s, Winfrey said…

  • Mixed-Race Korean Adoptees Use DNA to Search For Roots

    Mixed-Race Korean Adoptees Use DNA to Search For Roots NBC News 2016-03-02 Young Jin Kim Sarah Savidakis, 55, lived in South Korea until she was nine years old, at which time she was adopted by a Connecticut family. For Savidakis, who says she has grappled with the effects of early childhood trauma, memories of her…

  • The Professors vs. The President: Has Obama Done Enough for African-Americans?

    The Professors vs. The President: Has Obama Done Enough for African-Americans? NBC News 2016-02-28 Perry Bacon Jr., Senior Political Reporter Michael Eric Dyson and Eddie Glaude Jr., two well-respected black intellectuals and professors, make the same argument in books they have released over the last month: President Obama hasn’t done enough on policy to help…

  • Latinos May Be More Educated, Wealthier: Here’s Why We Don’t Know It

    U.S. Latinos may be more educated and have higher earnings than what current numbers suggest, and new research explores why.

  • Mom Writes Book, ‘Bad Hair Does Not Exist!’ For Daughters

    Mom Writes Book, ‘Bad Hair Does Not Exist!’ For Daughters NBC News 2016-02-17 Maya Chung Bad Hair Does Not Exist/Pelo Malo No Existe! is a Children’s Book by Sulma Arzu-Brown. “Bad Hair Does Not Exist!” is a new bilingual book that encourages young Black, Afro-Latino, and multi-racial girls to see themselves, and their hair, as…

  • Biracial Sons More Likely Than Daughters To Identify As Black

    Biracial Sons More Likely Than Daughters To Identify As Black NBC News 2016-02-01 Aris Folley Black-white biracial sons of interracial parents, in which one parent is black and the other is white, are more likely than their female counterparts to identify as black, according to a study found in the February issue of the American…

  • Oregon’s Portland Community College to mark ‘Whiteness History Month’

    Oregon’s Portland Community College to mark ‘Whiteness History Month’ NBC News 2016-01-21 Shamar Walters and Cassandra Vinograd First comes Black History Month and then … Whiteness History Month? A community college in Oregon has set aside April to look at “whiteness” — but not to celebrate what it’s described as a social construct which leads…

  • Diving Into Race, Identity of Multiracial Families In ‘Raising Mixed Race’

    Diving Into Race, Identity of Multiracial Families In ‘Raising Mixed Race’ NBC News 2015-12-31 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Sharon H. Chang’s son with a copy of Kip Fulbeck’s “Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids.” Photograph Courtesy of Sharon H. Chang Scholar and activist Sharon H. Chang’s new book, “Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial…