Incognito manages to avoid the trite tropes of the old racial passing narrative where the shock of black ancestry is revealed, seems repulsive and, as a result, goes unreconciled.
Holly Cara Price | Posted 03.23.2011 | Entertainment
"Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard. But I think....OH BONDAGE UP YOURS!" ~ X-Ray Spex, 1977 Photo Credit: Fabrizio Rainone...
Daniel Koh | Posted 04.19.2011 | College
A significant portion of colleges did not allow me to represent myself accurately on the application. This issue symbolizes a significant problem with race identification in America and deserves to be addressed with all possible expediency.
Marcia Dawkins | Posted 04.11.2011 | Entertainment
It is easy to see how making racial victims or racial healers out of multiracial people really only serves to let everyone else off the hook. We as a society need to realize that racial reconciliation is everybody's job.
Rebecca Walker | Posted 03.23.2011 | Living
What if blindness bridged the gap between different races, different economic and educational backgrounds and an age difference sometimes called May-December?
Marcia Dawkins | Posted 03.23.2011 | Impact
Last week, Nettleton Middle School was forced to drop its 30-year policy of race-based selections for school government and homecoming positions.
Marcia Dawkins | Posted 03.23.2011 | World
Even though the 21st century is seeing an exponential increase in reports of multiracial ancestry worldwide, exactly what makes a person multiracial remains a puzzling concept.
Marcia Dawkins | Posted 03.23.2011 | Living
Though this Saturday marks the 43rd anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, discrimination against interracial couples persists.
Marcia Dawkins | Posted 03.23.2011 | Politics
The number of boxes we check on the Census depends on the ways in which we think about race and ethnicity as well as the material resources and privileges attached to those ways of thinking.
Marcia Dawkins | Posted 03.23.2011 | Media
Should the media industry take responsibility for its formations of mixed race subjects, forging of interracial relations, and imagining "ambiguous" identification in today's increasingly diversifying world?
Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 03.23.2011 | Politics
First Lady Michelle Obama's great-great-great grandmother, a 14-year-old slave girl named Melvinia, was impregnated by a white slave owner.
Gautam Dutta | Posted 03.23.2011 | Politics
Harris is certainly the first African American woman to become a District Attorney in California. But she's also the first Asian American to accomplish that impressive feat.
Earnest Harris | Posted 03.23.2011 | Politics
Barack Obama is both black and white and he is neither black nor white, and he is mixed and he is half. He is all of those things and he is none of those things.
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 03.23.2011 | Entertainment
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Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 03.23.2011 | Politics
When Obama was born, it was illegal in 16 states for blacks to mary whites. Today the product of a relationship between a black man and a white woman is the President of the United States.
Twanna A. Hines | Posted 03.23.2011 | Style
I was raised to be a strong black woman who stuck it to The Man, but I've spent the past decade sticking it with him. Several of them.
Dipayan Gupta | Posted 03.23.2011 | Entertainment
When the team behind rising British songstress Leona Lewis chose to ditch the UK video of "Bleeding Love" and create a different US version, they must have done so for a reason.
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Marcia Dawkins | Posted 04.01.2011 | Arts