Tag: Elliott Lewis

  • Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah is the featured speaker at Syracuse University’s Martin Luther King celebration this Sunday. Noah’s life story as the son of a South African mother and European father has struck a chord with many on campus. SU journalism professor Elliott Lewis explores the ways biracial Americans are answering questions of race and…

  • Heather Curry believes President Barack Obama is denying his white heritage by identifying himself as African-American.

  • The “inter” land: Mixing autobiography and sociology for a better understanding of twenty-first century mixed-race Villanova University October 2009 105 pages Publication Number: AAT 1462397 ISBN: 9781109073102 Felicia Maria Camacho A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of The Department of English Villanova University In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of…

  • Journeys in Multiracial America C-SPAN Elliot Bay Book Company Seattle, Washington 2007-01-27 Elliott Lewis Journalist Elliott Lewis discusses his life as a biracial American at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle. In his memior Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America, the author explains that while he was raised with two parents of mixed racial heritage…

  • Lewis Explores Race During Unity Month The Emory Wheel Volume 91, Number 22 2009-11-13 page 3 Pooja Dhruv, Staff Writer Elliott Lewis, former television news reporter and author of Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America, discussed current American racial issues during his keynote address for Unity Month on Wednesday. According to College sophomores Yan Chen…

  • Firsthand multlicultural experience The Daily Independent (Ashland, Kentucky) 2009-10-22 Mike James Ashland — When he brings up the fact that he is biracial, Elliott Lewis most often hears platitudes. Some of them are flattering, others not so much. The one that drives him nuts is the question, “What are you?” It’s one of the things he…

  • Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America Basic Books an imprint of The Perseus Books Group 2006-12-28 302 pages ISBN: 9780786718825 ISBN-10: 078671882X Elliott Lewis Television journalist Elliott Lewis weaves his memoirs as a black-and-white biracial American with the voices of dozens of multiracial people who are challenging how we think and speak about race today.…