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  • Mixed Race America: Identities and Culture

    Mixed Race America: Identities and Culture Fifteenth Annual American Studies Conference Macalester College 1600 Grand Avenue Saint Paul, Minnesota 55105 2014-02-27 through 2014-02-28 Keynote Address Thursday, 2014-02-27, 18:00-19:30 CST (Local Time) Alexander G. Hill Ballroom Kagin Commons, Macalester Keynote Speakers: Ralina L. Joseph, Associate Professor of Communication University of Washington Author of: Transcending Blackness: From…

  • Miscegenating Racial Representations: Critical Mixed Race Strategies and the Visual Arts

    Miscegenating Racial Representations: Critical Mixed Race Strategies and the Visual Arts College Art Association 102nd Annual Conference Hilton Chicago 720 South Michigan Avenue International South, 2nd Floor Chicago, Illinois 60605 2014-02-15, 14:30-17:00 CST (Local Time) Chairs: Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design DePaul University Margo Machida, Associate Professor of Art History and Asian…

  • “Global Mixed Race,” the 3rd biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, will be held at DePaul University in Chicago November 13-15, 2014.

    “Global Mixed Race,” the 3rd biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, will be held at DePaul University in Chicago November 13-15, 2014. Critical Mixed Race Studies 2013-09-16 Conference Description: Global Mixed Race, the third biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, will be hosted at DePaul University in Chicago, November 13th-15th, 2014. It will bring together…

  • INDIGO: An Exhibit of Textiles

    INDIGO: An Exhibit of Textiles Gandhi Memorial Center 4748 Western Avenue Bethesda, Maryland, 20816 Washington, D.C. Phone: 301-320-6871 Opening Reception: Saturday, 2013-11-16, 14:00-16:00 EST (Local Time) Inaugural Remarks at 14:30 EST INDIGO, an exhibition of textiles by Laura Kina and Shelly Jyoti will be inaugurated at the Gandhi Memorial Center in cooperation with the Embassy…

  • Mixing Racial Messages

    Mixing Racial Messages Hyperallergic: Sensitive to Art & its Discontents 2013-10-30 Ryan Wong Starting with its title, the group exhibition War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art  at Seattle’s Wing Luke museum asks a provocative question: how do those seen by Americans as products of either colonial domination or subversive desire move past those categories? How do…

  • Interracial couples now part of mainstream

    Interracial couples now part of mainstream The Chicago Tribune 2013-10-23 Dawn Turner Trice, Reporter Mixed-race relationships becoming more common in Chicago — and everywhere else Stephen Blessman and Patricia Jones Blessman met in the mid-1990s and fell in love. It didn’t matter to either of them that he’s white and she’s African-American. They have a…

  • Behind the Curtain | Race is common theme in local exhibits

    Behind the Curtain | Race is common theme in local exhibits City Living Seattle 2013-09-19 Jessica Davis, Columnist According to the 2000 Census, Washington state ranks ninth in the country for interracial marriages. Overall, people of color make up more than 34 percent of Seattle residents. “RACE: Are We So Different?” at the Pacific Science…

  • Art at Wing Luke Museum explores mixed-race heritage

    Art at Wing Luke Museum explores mixed-race heritage The Seattle Times 2013-08-19 Robert Ayers, Special to The Seattle Times The thought-provoking “War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian-American Art” exhibition is showing at the Wing Luke in Seattle through Jan. 19, 2014. “War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian-American Art,” currently at the Wing Luke Museum of…

  • War Baby/Love Child~Capturing the Artistry of Mixed Identity

    “War Baby/Love Child~Capturing the Artistry of Mixed Identity Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-08-07, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University Born in Riverside, California in 1973 to an Okinawan father from Hawai’i and a Spanish-Basque/Anglo mother, Laura Kina…

  • War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art Opening Reception

    War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art Opening Reception Wing Luke Museum 719 South King Street Seattle, Washington Thursday, 2013-08-08, 18:00-20:00 PDT (Local Time) Join us for the opening reception of War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art. As an increasingly ethnically ambiguous Asian American generation is coming of age, this multi-platform project…