"People look at us as if we dropped in from the clouds, even at this phase of human history. I didn’t know that we can still have that kind of reaction, even within New York. It’s not like people voice it out in terms of antagonistic confrontation, but they can still see it in the eyes. The surprise -- “Oh, how do they manage?” You know: “how did that happen?” And all that."
Themes: Race & Ethnicity
Ericka Basile
Oral History
"...So for someone in Tennessee to just say, “Oh, you’re black,” you know, I am. But to me -- living there, when someone says that, it’s almost like -- not a dismissive thing, but it’s like they’re not doing the extra work to understand what other things comprise you."
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.
Corbin Laedlein
Oral History
"At some point in high school, I started to feel some real internalized racism because there was this feeling, like, textbooks are only talking about people who look like my dad. You open a textbook and it shows no contributions to human history of people from who descended from Africa or indigenous people from the Americas..."
Photos from 11th Annual Loving Day Flagship Celebration - NYC
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Photos & updates from Loving Day flagship celebration - 2014
Mixed Blood Photo Project by CYJO
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Portraying NYC and Beijing-based families that include children with mixed races, ethnicities, and cultures.
Mixed Mondays Film Series - Toasted Marshmallows
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Part 3 of Mixed Mondays film series is the first U.S preview of Toasted Marshmallows' documentary about mixed-race women in North America
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
New Books by CBBG Advisors!
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Overlapping diasporas, Jewish fatherhood, Civil Rights murders, & more...
Loving v. Virginia in Historical Context
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As important as Loving v. Virginia (1967) was, prohibitions on interracial marriage were in fact the last segregation laws to be invalidated. Loving reflected these broader political developments in the arena of race more than it caused them.
Why Teach Kids about Mixed Heritage?
Exhibit
Mixed-heritage narratives provide us with the opportunity to teach children from an early age that having a certain skin color, cultural background, or country of origin doesn’t determine a person’s value, despite messages we see in society.
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.
Confronting Claims of Post-Racialism
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A talk by Maureen Walker, PhD, via Wellesley Centers for Women
Millions of Americans Changed their Racial/Ethnic Identity from 2000 Census to 2010 Census
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via Pew Research Center
