Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

“One of the things that interested me in the last campaign, was the byplay having to do with Obama’s racial origins. It struck me that the press and the public generally reserve the ‘mixed race’ label for the offspring of racially mixed marriages. But there is a paradox here. Obama, half black and half white, is, genetically speaking, not much whiter than I am, even though my nearest white forebears were Virginia slave owners who lived and died in the 19th century. Similarly, there are people who think of themselves as black who are, genetically speaking, 70 percent white or more.”…

Brent Staples, quoted in “Up Front: Brent Staples,” The New York Times, September 2, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/books/review/up-front-brent-staples.html.

‘I’m not half of anything’

Posted in Audio, Autobiography, Interviews, Media Archive, Oceania on 2017-07-05 18:28Z by Steven

‘I’m not half of anything’

It’s Not A Race
Radio National
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
2017-06-29

Beverley Wang, Presenter

So how about this idea that biracial and multiracial children are the key to a post-racial future utopia?

And how does it measure up to the lived experience of biracial Australians?

It’s Not A Race explores what it’s really like to grow up as a biracial Australian with Faustina Agolley, Lucie Cutting, Nkechi Anele, and the Hameed sisters, Leona and Monique.

Listen to the podcast (00:24:57) here.

Tags: ABC, Australia, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Beverley Wang, Faustina Agolley, It's Not A Race, Leona Hameed, Lucie Cutting, Monique Hameed, Nkechi Anele, Radio National, RN

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Children of the Occupation

Posted in Audio, History, Media Archive, Oceania on 2013-03-11 17:48Z by Steven

Children of the Occupation

Radio National
Big Ideals
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
2013-03-11

For a decade following the end of the Second World War, foreign troops occupied Japan. During that time, thousands of mixed race children were born, the result of relationships between the occupying servicemen – Australians, Americans, Brits – and Japanese women. What became of those children after their fathers returned home? Former ABC Tokyo based correspondent, Walter Hamilton, has been finding out.

Listen to the episode here. Download the episode here.

Tags: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Japan, Walter Hamilton, World War II

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