This Week in Diversity: In Between

August 20, 2010 – 12:02 pm

Greetings on this fine Friday! We have a couple links for you this week, dealing with interactions and being between cultures or peoples. First, the Times has a look at Anglo-Indian culture: a relic of colonialist times, composed of people of (usually partly) European origins living in India, blending Indian and British cultures while being [...]

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Radio Thursday: Yes, He’s Mine

August 19, 2010 – 5:42 pm

We’re taking a break from Thursday videos this week, and listening to the radio instead! NPR’s Tell Me More has a great segment in which several mothers of multiracial children share their personal experiences being asked if those are their kids, or if they’re the nanny or babysitter. It’s a great piece, so check it [...]

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Your New Voices Award questions answered

August 12, 2010 – 11:48 am

Hi, friends! The deadline grows near for our annual New Voices Award, so first off is a reminder to send us your stories by September 30, 2010 if you are planning to submit. In case you’re not familiar with it, the New Voices Award is open to all authors of color who have not previously [...]

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This Week in Diversity: It’s a Jungle Out There

July 9, 2010 – 12:24 pm

Racialicious starts us off this week with a thoughtful look at books about black southerners written by white authors, and street-lit written by black writers. The Washington Monthly takes a look at some disturbing rhetoric that’s come up in the Elena Kagan hearings—not rhetoric about Kagan, but about Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme [...]

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This Week in Diversity: Heat Wave

June 25, 2010 – 4:23 pm

Most of the country looks poised for a hot weekend, so here are some pieces to read while you lurk in the air-conditioned splendor of indoors. Hampton Stevens, guest blogging for Ta-Nahisi Coates, shares a story of a child trying to puzzle our increasingly globalized world, courtesy of the FIFA World Cup, and points to the [...]

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Video Thursday: Flashback

June 17, 2010 – 3:21 pm

This week’s Video Thursday is a flashback to 1965, and a movie whose distributors sold tickets by using blatant racial scare-tactics. Via Shani Hilton guest-blogging for Ta-Nahisi Coates via PostBourgie via Oscar Willis. Reading a little more about it, the NYTimes description of the movie (which is French) says it’s “more thoughtful and less exploitive [...]

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Video Thursday: Unthinkable

May 27, 2010 – 4:53 pm

Via RaceWire, a new music video from Alicia Keys showcases an interracial relationship—and facing the condemnation of friends and families as a result. No single story—and for all the hopping through time, this is a single story—can represent the variety of interracial relationship and the experiences of people dating cross-culturally, but it’s nice to see [...]

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This Week in Diversity: History, Alternate Reality, and the Future

April 30, 2010 – 1:34 pm

Last Friday haiku Thirty days of poetry Ending with a verse. Let’s start the week’s links with some history! It turns out that there have been biracial people for a long time, and we’re not just talking homo sapiens of European descent with those of African descent: a recent genetic study found evidence of interbreeding [...]

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This Week in Diversity: Freshly Ground

April 23, 2010 – 3:18 pm

Perhaps April is Obviously awesome Especially for Trying to write Rhymes and rhythms Yesterday, today—Poetry Month! Only one more week of Poetry Month—enjoy it! (And yes, that means only one more week of reading my terrible attempts at poetry.) New York Times columnist Charles Blow starts us off with his experience as a black man [...]

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This Week in Diversity: Then & Now

April 16, 2010 – 2:22 pm

In Poetry Month, Links to articles on race Come with a haiku Ta-Nehisi Coates is thinking about Confederate History Month, and brings us a photo and descriptions of recently-emancipated slaves from an 1864 edition of Harper’s Weekly—and like everything we’ve been reading about the census, it’s a telling glimpse into America’s racial makeup and mixtures: [...]

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