Multiethnic student group Mixed receives 2016 Perkins PrizePosted in Articles, Campus Life, Media Archive, United States on 2016-03-24 00:36Z by Steven |
Multiethnic student group Mixed receives 2016 Perkins Prize
Cornell Chronicle
Ithaca, New York
2016-03-17
In 2015 members of the student club Mixed at Cornell created the print and digital Cornell Hapa Book Facebook page, featuring photographs and stories of 60 self-identified multiracial students, staff and faculty who answered the question, “What does being mixed mean to you?” The book received more than 8,000 views.
On March 16 in Willard Straight Hall, Mixed was awarded the recently renamed James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial and Intercultural Peace and Harmony by Michael Kotlikoff, provost and acting president, “for its role in supporting and exploring the experience of multiracial/multiethnic individuals.”…
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