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  • ITYC Interview: Multicultural Psychologist and Author Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

    ITYC Interview: Multicultural Psychologist and Author Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Is That Your Child? Thought in Full Color 2013-02-11 Michelle Clark-McCrary, Host Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Stanford University ITYC had the great pleasure of talking with multicultural psychologist and author Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu about his latest book When Half is Whole: Multiethnic Asian Identities. Through deeply personal, raw storytelling, When…

  • I saw that the antiblack bias at the core of many multiracial organizations had shaped the larger discourse of mixedness and multiracial identity…

    As my critical contemplative response tempered my emotional one, I saw that the antiblack bias at the core of many multiracial organizations had shaped the larger discourse of mixedness and multiracial identity. While many mixed individuals and organizations are engaged and invested in social justice, discussions about mixed identity the realm of popular culture and…

  • CNN’s Who’s Black in America: Some Thoughts

    CNN’s Who’s Black in America: Some Thoughts Is That Your Child? Thought in Full Color 2012-12-12 Michelle Clark-McCrary So here’s an audio journal with my reflections on last Sunday night’s CNN Who’s Black in America special. Ultimately, my view of this special and the entire series as a whole is that conversations about race cannot…

  • Coming Clean About Blackness, Mixed Race Identity and the Multiracial Movement

    Coming Clean About Blackness, Mixed Race Identity and the Multiracial Movement Is That Your Child? Thought in Full Color 2012-12-10 Michelle Clark-McCrary Before I go into my reflections on CNN’s “Who’s Black in America” series, I have to come clean about the evolution of my personal perspective on blackness, mixed race identity and the “multiracial…

  • ITYC Audio Journal #2: What Are You?-Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations

    ITYC Audio Journal #2: What Are You?-Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Is That Your Child? Thought in Full Color 2012-10-07 Michelle McCrary, Host Last Thursday, I attended an event at the Brooklyn Historical Society for their “Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations” series called What Are You? The panel tackled the this perpetual question often aimed at people…

  • That this has been a racially mixed country from the very beginning…

    …And I think with racial issues in the country, historical memory has really played to serve the ends of White Privilege, essentially. And it has done so in any number of ways. The most basic to start with, is simply we have as a nation erased essentially from any of our larger memory the racial…

  • Multiraciality Is As Old As This Country: Gender, Sexuality & Race Mixing with Professor Renee Romano

    Multiraciality Is As Old As This Country: Gender, Sexuality & Race Mixing with Professor Renee Romano Blogtalk Radio 2012-02-10 Michelle McCrary, Host Is That Your Child? Renee Romano, Associate Professor of History Oberlin College Last Friday ITYC had an enlightening conversation with Professor Renee Romano from Oberlin College about the ways in which our country’s…

  • Mixed Race Studies with Steve Riley

    Mixed Race Studies with Steve Riley BlogtalkRadio: Is That Your Child? 2012-01-20, 19:30 EST/16:30 PST; [2012-01-21, 00:30Z] Michelle McCrary, Host ITYC welcomes creator, founder and editor of the site Mixed Race Studies.org Steve Riley to the podcast this week. In his words, Riley began Mixed Race Studies in April of 2009 “in recognition of our…