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  • What’s Radical About “Mixed Race”?

    On April 20, 2015, the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU hosted “What’s Radical About ‘Mixed Race’?”. Eschewing an apolitical “celebration” of mixed race, this panel examined the movement’s implications for multiracial coalition and the future of race in the US and Canada, asking: does the multiracial movement challenge—or actually reinforce—the logics of structural racism?

  • What’s Radical About “Mixed Race?”

    What’s Radical About “Mixed Race?” Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU 8 Washington Mews New York, New York 10003 Phone: (212) 998-3700 Monday, 2015-04-20, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) | Free Since the 1990s, mainstream media has heralded the growing population of self-identified “mixed race” people in the US and Canada as material proof of a post-racial era…

  • Panel discusses mixed race scholarship

    Panel discusses mixed race scholarship Washington Square News: NYU’s Independent Student Newspaper 2015-04-21 Amanda Morris, Contributing Writer Jared Sexton speaks on the topic of mixed race individuals. Sexton is the director of the African American Studies program in UC Irvine. (Shawn Paik) In studying mixed race identities, the historical focus has been on the individual,…

  • ‘Did Somebody Say “Mulatto”?’ Speaking Critically on Mixed Heritage

    ‘Did Somebody Say “Mulatto”?’ Speaking Critically on Mixed Heritage The Huffington Post The Blog 2014-11-21 A. B. Wilkinson, Assistant Professor of History University of Nevada, Las Vegas Photograph: Ken Tanabe One of the main characters in the award-winning film Dear White People is a mixed “black and white” college student who works to make sense…

  • Reflections on the 2014 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference

    Reflections on the 2014 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2014-11-16 Sharon H. Chang Ah. Where do I begin. I’m sitting on a plane waiting to takeoff to Seattle (correction, taking off) thinking on my last 3 days in Chicago at the…

  • Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality

    Mixed Race Amnesia is an ambitious and critical look at how multiraciality is experienced in the global north. Drawing on a series of interviews she conducted with twenty-four women of mixed race, acclaimed geographer Minelle Mahtani explores some of the assumptions and attitudes people have around multiraciality.

  • Global Mixed Race

    Global Mixed Race New York University Press March 2014 357 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780814770733 Paper ISBN: 9780814789155 Edited by: Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain, Senior Lecturer National University of Ireland, Maynooth Stephen Small, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley Minelle Mahtani, Associate Professor in the Department of Human Geography and the Program in…

  • The Debate: Multiracial Identity

    The Debate: Multiracial Identity The Agenda with Steve Paikin TVO (TV Ontario) Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2011-07-22, 20:00 EDT (Local Time) Also at: 2011-07-25, 05:00 EDT (Local Time) Piya Chattopadhyay, Host Guests (in order of appearance) Rainier Spencer, Director of the Afro-American Studies Program University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Author of three books on multiracialism including, Reproducing Race:…

  • What’s in a name? Exploring the employment of ‘mixed race’ as an identification

    What’s in a name? Exploring the employment of  ‘mixed race’ as an identification Ethnicities Volume 2, Number 4 (December 2002) pages 469-490 DOI: 10.1177/14687968020020040201 Minelle Mahtani, Professor of Geography and Journalism University of Toronto In the last 20 years, we have witnessed an explosion in scholarship and popular media accounts about the experience of ‘mixed race’…

  • A new mixed-raced generation is transforming the city: Will Toronto be the world’s first post-racial metropolis?

    A new mixed-raced generation is transforming the city: Will Toronto be the world’s first post-racial metropolis? Toronto Life 2013-02-12 Nicholas Hune-Brown, Author Kourosh Keshiri, Photography Interviews by Jasmine Budak I used to be the only biracial kid in the room. Now, my exponentially expanding cohort promises a future where everyone is mixed. Last fall, I…