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Day: March 3, 2016

  • The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race

    Is race only about the color of your skin? In “The Latinos of Asia,” Anthony Christian Ocampo shows that what “color” you are depends largely on your social context.

  • Afro-Latin America: Black Lives, 1600–2000

    Of the almost 11 million Africans who came to the Americas between 1500 and 1870, two-thirds came to Spanish America and Brazil. Over four centuries, Africans and their descendants—both free and enslaved—participated in the political, social, and cultural movements that indelibly shaped their countries’ colonial and post-independence pasts. Yet until very recently Afro-Latin Americans were…

  • 2016 Duke Global Brazil Conference

    2016 Duke Global Brazil Conference Duke University Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (FHI Garage) C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse Durham, North Carolina 2016-03-04, 09:00-17:30 EST (Local Time) Co-sponsored by FHI Global Brazil Lab and the Duke Brazil Initiative Invited guests include: Keynote: Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman (USF) – The Color of Love in Bahia Dr. John Collins…

  • ‘Pinky’ and the Origins of Interracial Oscar-Bait

    Twentieth Century-Fox’s Pinky is far from the first Hollywood feature film that depicts an interracial relationship. Despite the evolution of various censorship codes that forbid depicting “miscegenation,” Hollywood has a rich history of mining the salacious or elicit potential from interracial pairing on screen, from Broken Blossoms to Duel in the Sun, Showboat to Imitation…

  • Why I Created #ObamaAndKids

    Why I Created #ObamaAndKids Medium 2016-02-21 Michael Skolnik (Pete Souza/White House) THURSDAY, February 18, 2016. The White House. Washington, DC. President Barack Obama was about to enter the room, when I noticed a young boy standing next to me, dressed in a jacket and tie, looking to get to the front of the crowd. This…

  • “Look, a [picture]!”: Visuality, race, and what we do not see

    “Look, a [picture]!”: Visuality, race, and what we do not see Quarterly Journal of Speech Volume 102, Issue 1, 2016 pages 62-78 DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2015.1136074 Elizabeth Kaszynski Department of Communication and Culture Indiana University This article argues that understanding vision and visuality as associated but distinct terms has significant implications for the ways in which we…

  • Photo Series Celebrates The ‘Black Girl Power’ Of Brazilian Women

    Photo Series Celebrates The ‘Black Girl Power’ Of Brazilian Women The Huffington Post 2016-03-02 Zeba Blay, Voices Culture Writer It highlights women who are Afro-Brazilian and proud. For the past two years, Brazilian journalist Weudson Ribeiro has been documenting the beauty of Afro-Brazilian women by photographing spontaneous portraits of them in an ongoing project. The…

  • Mixed-Race Korean Adoptees Use DNA to Search For Roots

    Mixed-Race Korean Adoptees Use DNA to Search For Roots NBC News 2016-03-02 Young Jin Kim Sarah Savidakis, 55, lived in South Korea until she was nine years old, at which time she was adopted by a Connecticut family. For Savidakis, who says she has grappled with the effects of early childhood trauma, memories of her…