Mixed Chicks Chat

Episode - Dr. Erica Chito Childs

Erica Chito Childs is a leading qualitative researcher on issues of race, gender and sexuality, particularly in the areas of multiracialism, families, media and popular culture. She is also currently involved in research in urban public schools and childcare options in  New York City. She is a popular and engaging speaker and is frequently invited to lecture on multiracial issues in the United States, Britain and South Africa. Her work has also been featured in various media outlets.  

Episode - Mixed Chicks Chat with Mary Beltran

It was really great speaking with Ms. Beltran today.  Here's her impressive, extensive bio & a link to listen to the show in case you missed it!

Mary Beltrán, an Assistant Professor of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, is of Mexican and German, English, and Scotch Irish heritage. Her research is focused on the production and narration of race, ethnicity, gender and class in U.S. television, film, and celebrity culture, with an emphasis on Latina/o and mixed race representation. 

She is the co-editor (with Camilla Fojas) of Mixed Race Hollywood (NYU Press 2008), an anthology of scholarship on mixed-race representation in film, television, new media, and celebrity culture. She also is the author of Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meanings of Film and TV Stardom (University of Illinois Press, 2009), which explores the construction and marketing of Latina and Latino stars in the U.S. in relation to the evolving status of Mexican Americans and other Latinos since the 1920s.

Mary is a former journalist and social worker; her experiences working in San Francisco with Latina and African American teens and interest in the complexities of popular culture and its impact on young people of color spurred her to pursue a career that would allow her to combine her various interests and conduct research at the intersections of race, class, and gender and entertainment media studies. Since becoming a faculty member of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and now the University of Texas, Beltrán has taught  a variety of classes on race and entertainment media, including first-ever courses at both universities on Mixed Race and U.S. Media Culture. Aside from her books, she has published on such topics as mixed-race actors and characters in U.S. media culture, racial representation in millennial television, ethnic media activism targeting the television networks, and the racial politics of beauty and body ideals as reinforced in Hollywood media productions.

She has been conducting research for a new book, Post-Race Pop: Interrogating Racelessness in Millennial Media Culture. Post-Race Pop explores the emphasis on racial ambiguity and utopic representations of racial and ethnic diversity in contemporary television and other millennial media culture, particularly in light of the imperatives of the media industries to appeal to an increasingly diverse audience and popular political rhetoric that has utilized notions of post-racial America to widely divergent ends.

Episode 254 - Brian Bantum

Brian Bantum is Assistant Professor of Theology at Seattle Pacific University and author of Redeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity.  Thanks so much for joining us today!

Episode: Nicole Rabin

We had a wonderful chat with Nicole! She's a storyteller AND a scholar - a great combination! Here's a link to two of her articles on mixedracestudeis.org: http://www.mixedracestudies.org/wordpress/?tag=nicole-myoshi-rabin

Listen to our chat here:

Episode 253: Samantha Farrell, singer-songwriter extraordinaire

Wow! We love Samantha Farrell, singer-songwriter extraordinaire --and fellow mixed chick!  You will love her too.  Don't miss this great chat.

 

Episode - Mixed Chicks Chat with Andrew Jolivette

Andrew Jolivette received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is associate professor and chair of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University where he is an affiliated faculty member in Race & Resistance Studies and the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership. He is the author of three books,Cultural Representation in Native America (2006), Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed Race Native American Identity(2007), and Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority (2012). Jolivette is currently working on a new book, Indian Blood: Mixed Race Gay Men, Transgender Women, and HIV. He is a former Ford Foundation postdoctoral fellow and the editor of a special volume of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, “Indigenous Landscapes Post-Katrina: Beyond Invisibility and Disaster.” He is the board President of and a national speaker with the Institute for Democratic Education and Culture-Speak Out, the Co-Chair of the GLBT Historical Society Board, Vice-Chair of the board of the DataCenter for Research Justice, and the former Board President of iPride—an organization for multiracial youth and families. Jolivette currently serves on the 2-Spirit HIV/AIDS Advisory Board of the Native American Health Center in Oakland, California. Dr. Jolivette was the Indigenous People’s Representative at the United Nations Development Programme’s Global Forum on HIV and the Law in 2011.  Professor Jolivette is an IHART (Indigenous HIV/AIDS Research Training) Fellow at the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute at the University of Washington in Seattle. His current research which includes a pilot study at the Native American AIDS Project in San Francisco focuses on Indigenous stress coping mechanisms, inter-generational trauma, healing, and cultural leadership in the context of HIV risk in urban American Indian populations.

Links to his work:

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/O/bo13320228.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hll5rS5TlA

http://www.amazon.com/Obama-Biracial-Factor-American-Majority/dp/1447301005/

http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Out-writer-Andrew-Jolivette-on-Obama-and-race-/36250.html

http://www.speakoutnow.org/userdata_display.php?modin=50&uid=424

http://www.nativewiki.org/Andrew_Jolivette

Episode 251: Filmmaker Maria Breaux

Don't miss this chat with filmmaker Maria Breaux!  And special guest co-host actor and founder of Sweet Blackberry, Karyn Parsons!

Episode 250: Justin Tutt shares his mixed experience

We are so happy that Justin Tutt was able to join us. Yep, brother of co-host Jennifer Frappier chats with us about growing up mixed.  

Justin's "stickin' up" hair.                        Big Sis and little Bro.

        

Episode 249 - We chat with mixed chick Kyla Kupferstein

We were excited to talk to educator and writer, Kyla Kupferstein about growing up mixed in New York City and what it all means now--don't miss this episode.

Episode 248 : Michael Durrow Talks about His Mixed Experience

We were excited to talk with Michael (Micro) Durrow (pictured on the right) about his Mixed experience.  Yes, the brother of co-host Heidi, opens up about growing up African-American and Danish!