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  • NYU Guesses Racial, Ethnic Identity of Some Employees

    Because NYU receives federal funding, the university’s office of human resources is required to guess the racial and ethnic identities of employees who do not self-report that information.

  • #BlackLivesMatter in Latin America: Race, Space and Consciousness

    #BlackLivesMatter in Latin America: Race, Space and Consciousness New York University Department of Social & Cultural Analysis 20 Cooper Square New York, New York 10003 Monday, 2016-04-18 18:30-20:00 EDT (Local Time) The hashtag turned social movement, #blacklivesmatter, has thrust police brutality and institutionalized racism into the American consciousness. African descendants in Latin America are concurrently…

  • Study finds mixed-race individuals are fastest-growing demographic group, most discriminated against

    Study finds mixed-race individuals are fastest-growing demographic group, most discriminated against The Daily Targum: Serving the Rutgers community since 1869. Independent since 1980. 2016-03-31 Samantha Karas The fastest growing racial group in the United States is mixed-race individuals, but they are also the ones experiencing increasing amounts of prejudice from white people, according to a…

  • Where We Live Affects Our Bias Against Mixed-Race Individuals, Psychology Study Finds

    Whites living in areas where they are less exposed to those of other races have a harder time categorizing mixed-race individuals than do Whites with greater interracial exposure, a condition that is associated with greater prejudice against mixed-race individuals, a new experimental study shows.

  • AfroLatin@s in Action: Making a Difference through Research, Education & the Arts

    AfroLatin@s in Action: Making a Difference through Research, Education & the Arts Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor New York, New York 10012 Thursday, 2015-10-15, 18:30-20:30 EDT (Local Time) Join us for a discussion led by AfroCuban author, bibliographer, and activist Tomás Fernandez Robaína on the crucial role of books in…

  • 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…

  • Fast Talking PI: A Reading by Selina Tusitala Marsh

    Fast Talking PI: A Reading by Selina Tusitala Marsh Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU 8 Washington Mews New York, New York 10003 Monday, 2015-04-27, 16:00-18:00 EDT (Local Time) Auckland-based poet and scholar Selina Tusitala Marsh reads from her award-winning collection, Fast Talking PI. NYU Performance Studies Graduate student and Indigeneous artist, facilitator, and organizer si dåko’ta…

  • 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,…

  • Volunteers Needed for Linguistic Research! It Pays!

    Volunteers Needed for Linguistic Research! It Pays! 2015-01-31 Nicole Holliday, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Linguistics New York University Nicole Holliday, a graduate student in the NYU Department of Linguistics is seeking participants in the Washington D.C. metro area for a research study on how individuals with one black parent and one white parent talk to…