Oral history allows for multiplicity: for the varied, nuanced, and complicated stories of identity and experience to be told, instead of flattened to static racial categories.
Tag: Ethnicity
Race & Its Categories in Historical Perspective
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Although this historical account of the construction of the race notion in the West is widely accepted, disagreement exists about whether it describes the only instance in which a human society invented a race-like belief.
Millions of Americans Changed their Racial/Ethnic Identity from 2000 Census to 2010 Census
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via Pew Research Center
American Hair
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A traveling exhibit and lecture series about hair, beauty shop culture, race, and identity, by Candacy Taylor
On National Geographic's Prediction for 2050
Article
Will increased racial mixing finally and permanently redefine how we imagine our racial identities?
One Drop of Love - a performance by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni
Article
How does our belief in race affect our most intimate relationships?
PHOTOS: Muslim And...? Portraits of American Muslims
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Photos and report back from Muslim And...? event
"The tormented half-breed in film..."
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INTERVIEWER JEN CHAU: I want to talk a little bit about your thoughts about mixed-heritage identity now [2012].
What's Purity Got to Do with It? Searching Family History & Genealogy
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Part 2 on our readings series Quantifying Bloodlines
Science Fiction and Multiraciality: From Octavia Butler to Harry Potter
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Join us for an interactive presentation and dialogue about mixed-race identity and the role of science fiction in creating racial justice.
3rd Annual: What Are You? - A Discussion about Mixed Heritage
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Let's talk about race, ethnicity, and identity as it relates to art, filmmaking, and media. Join us for a panel discussion and interactive conversation!
Reflections on Critical Mixed Race Studies conference
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Rita Kamani-Renedo reports back from Chicago
Asian-American Interracial Marriage Rates Bucking Trend
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"For Asian-American Couples, A Tie that Binds"