Tag: Marcia Alesan Dawkins

  • Everyone Looks a Little Bit Asian truthdig: drilling beneath the headlines 2010-10-27 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Like many other Hispanics, I am a member of Generation E.A. (ethnically ambiguous). Over the years I’ve been mistaken for just about every racial or ethnic combination—from Eurasian to Afro-Irish to Arab-Native American. This guessing game…

  • Obama and Race in America The Huffington Post 2010-08-06 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University In his first major comment on race and race relations in our nation since his “A More Perfect Union Speech” on March 18, 2008, President Barack Obama called for frank discussion about race last week. In both a speech…

  • Black, White and Other… Worldwide The Huffington Post 2010-07-27 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Even though the 21st century is seeing an exponential increase in reports of multiracial ancestry worldwide, exactly what makes a person multiracial remains a puzzling concept. According to the Association of Multiethnic Americans and Project RACE, the definition of…

  • Marcia Dawkins to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #153 – Marcia Dawkins When: Wednesday, 2010-05-19…

  • 2010 Census: Stressed Out of the Box The Huffington Post 2010-03-10 Marcia Dawkins, Assistant Professor of Human Communication California State University, Fullerton Robert M. Groves, Director of the U.S. Census Bureau, sent me a letter today. Mr. Groves told me that my 2010 Census form will be arriving sometime next week and that my “response…

  • Passing as Mixed Race Open Salon 2010-03-03 Marcia Dawkins, Assistant Professor of Human Communication California State University, Fullerton Alexandre Dumas has always been one of my favorite writers. Works like The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo and Georges took me on countless adventures in worlds and times much different from my own. But…