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  • Screening and Discussion of Race: The Power of an Illusion, Episode 1

    Screening and Discussion of Race: The Power of an Illusion, Episode 1 Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street Brooklyn, New York 11201 Monday, 2016-03-28, 18:30-21:00 EDT (Local Time) Join us for the first in a series of screenings and discussions of the thought-provoking PBS series Race: The Power of An Illusion, which uses science, history,…

  • 4th Annual “What Are You?” with Lacey Schwartz’s “Little White Lie”

    4th Annual “What Are You?” with Lacey Schwartz’s “Little White Lie” Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street Brooklyn, New York 11201 Monday, 2015-06-08, 18:30-21:00 EDT (Local Time) A BHS “Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations” program. Top: Lacey Schwartz, photo by Michael Hill; Bottom: Lise Funderburg, photo by Tigist Tsegie On the week of Loving Day 2015,…

  • Accessing the Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Oral History Collection through the Digital Humanities

    Accessing the Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Oral History Collection through the Digital Humanities Brooklyn Historical Society Blog Brooklyn Historical Society Brooklyn, New York 2015-03-23 Julia Lipkins I’m pleased to announce that the Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations (CBBG) oral history collection is now open for research! From 2011 to 2014, a team of oral historians sponsored…

  • Museum Offers Interactive Oral History of Mixed Race Brooklynites

    Museum Offers Interactive Oral History of Mixed Race Brooklynites NY1 News New York, New York 2014-12-29 Jeanine Ramirez, Brooklyn Reporter A new interactive website offers an interracial, multi-ethnic view of Brookynites. NY1’s Jeanine Ramirez filed the following report. Deborah Schwartz clicks on the latest resource at the Brooklyn Historical Society, an oral history project about…

  • A Look at Looking Different

    A Look at Looking Different The New York Times 2014-12-02 Felicia R. Lee ‘Crossing Borders,’ at the Brooklyn Historical Society Alexander David grew up with a Chinese mother and a white Jewish father in the liberal Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. He attended the predominantly Asian elite Stuyvesant High School. He was comfortable in his…

  • Mixed Mondays Film Series at the Brooklyn Historical Society

    Mixed Mondays Film Series at the Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generatons Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street Brooklyn, New York 11201 Mondays, 2014-08-04 through  2014-08-18, 18:30 EDT (Local Time) Hosted by and post-screening discussion with: Erica Chito Childs, Professor of Sociology (author of Navigating Interracial Borders and Fade to Black and White: Interracial Images in…

  • Loving v. Virginia in Historical Context

    Loving v. Virginia in Historical Context Crossing Borders, Bridging Generatons Brooklyn Historical Society June 2014 Renee Romano, Associate Professor of History Oberlin College Renee Romano teaches history at Oberlin College and she is the author of Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America (Harvard University Press, 2003), and co-editor of The Civil Rights Movement in…

  • Race & Its Categories in Historical Perspective

    Race & Its Categories in Historical Perspective Crossing Borders, Bridging Generatons Brooklyn Historical Society June 2014 Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University A native New Yorker, Ann Morning is an associate professor of sociology at New York University and the author of The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about…

  • One Drop of Love – a performance by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni at the Brooklyn Historical Society

    One Drop of Love – a performance by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni at the Brooklyn Historical Society Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations 2014-06-12, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations and the Brooklyn Historical Society is delighted to host One Drop of Love, a multimedia solo performance by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni that incorporates…

  • Zines from the Borderlands: Storytelling about Mixed-Heritage

    Zines from the Borderlands: Storytelling about Mixed-Heritage Brooklyn Historical Society Great Hall 128 Pierrepont Street Brooklyn, New York 2014-04-24, 19:00-21:00 EST (Local Time) How can zines create new narratives and representations for mixed-heritage people, LGBTQ communities, and people of color who are stereotyped or ignored in mainstream media? What is the role of zines, DIY…