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Tag: Race

Making Space to Talk About Race
Exhibit

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.

Photos from 11th Annual Loving Day Flagship Celebration - NYC
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Photos & updates from Loving Day flagship celebration - 2014
Mixed Mondays Film Series - My Beautiful Laundrette
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Part 2 of Mixed Mondays film series is Oscar-nominated My Beautiful Laundrette - about mixed, immigrant, and queer relationships in London
Mixed Mondays Film Series - Imitation of Life
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Part 1 of our summer Mixed Monday film series is a 1959 Lana Turner classic - Imitation of Life
The Chosen Exile of Racial Passing
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Historian Allyson Hobbs at TEDxStanford
Race & Its Categories in Historical Perspective
Exhibit
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.
Celebrate Loving Day 2014!
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11th annual celebration in New York!
Confronting Claims of Post-Racialism
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A talk by Maureen Walker, PhD, via Wellesley Centers for Women
What Being White Looks Like
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Photographer Myra Greene examines whiteness (via PBS)
Mixed Experience History Month 2014
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Check in each weekday for a new profile by Heidi Durrow
American Hair
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A traveling exhibit and lecture series about hair, beauty shop culture, race, and identity, by Candacy Taylor
Making Hispanics
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How activists, bureaucrats, and media constructed a new American
Thoughts on "Racial-Type Photography"
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Is modern race-photography celebrating the dismantling of race or...?
On National Geographic's Prediction for 2050
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Will increased racial mixing finally and permanently redefine how we imagine our racial identities?
The Men Who Left Were White
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Personal essay about the history of mixed African and European ancestry
One Drop of Love - a performance by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni
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How does our belief in race affect our most intimate relationships?
The Heathen School
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A new book about a 19th c. mission school & interracial marriages via NPR
Zines from the Borderlands: Storytelling about Mixed-Heritage
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Come talk about race, gender, sexuality and media with four zinesters, activists and media-makers.
Who Coined the Term "Miscegenation"?
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via Brooklyn Historical Society

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