Paintings by Laura Kina and photographs by Emily Hanako Momohara explore the artists’ mixed-heritage roots in Okinawa and Hawai‘i, employing unique strategies that blend fiction and reality to question the stability of memory and identity. In this video, they discuss their families, identity, and their art.
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By Sharon Chang
“Are we bingeing on mixed-race beauty to feel better about racism?”
Source: www.buzzfeed.com
Insight:
This article says so many things I have been thinking.
There is also a thing called beauty privilege, that I do not hear others talking about in that way.
The article is excellent and detailed overall.
The one bit I would say differently is where Sharon says:
“We know race is not biological…”.
Race is exactly biological. The fact that race is about biology does not need to reinforce racism however. “The Nature of Race”, by Ann Morning goes into this and how different scientists view race differently. The big opposing views are between anthropologists and medical scientists.
A thought provoking film that explores how Americans perceive multiracial people, and how multiracial people perceive themselves. Dir. by Malarie Howard
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“…Global Mixed Race, the third biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, will be hosted at DePaul University in Chicago, November 13th-15th, 2014. It will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines around the world to facilitate a conversation about the transnational, transdisciplinary, and transracial field of Critical Mixed Race Studies.”
Source: criticalmixedracestudies.org
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In this series Mixed people from around the world share stories of growing up, Mixed identity and more.
In this episode host Morgan Lynzi talks about being super mixed and being in the media.
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One Drop of Love (www.onedropoflove.com) is a solo performance produced by Ben Affleck, Chay Carter and Matt Damon, along with the show’s writer and performe…
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Americans of mixed race, American Indians, Pacific Islanders and Hispanics were among those most likely to check different boxes.
See on www.pewresearch.org
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About a week ago I had the chance to do something I’ve been wanting to do (and bugging the filmmakers about for a long time) — finally go to a local screening of the documentary Hafu, meaning “half,” which represents 5 stories of mixed heritage Japanese folks navigating their multi/identities in Japan today.
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Catana Tully explores questions of race, adoption and identity, not as the professor of cultural studies that she became, but as the Black child of German settlers in Guatemala who called her their “little Moor.”
See on splitattheroot.com
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