Tag Archives: race

’60s Alum Brings Eclectic Memories to Stage

Eric Conger ‘68 has written a play loosely based on his experiences as a member of Eclectic in the 1960s, “The Eclectic Society,” which is being performed at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia until March 7.  The play depicts Eclectic and Wesleyan when the student body was a lot more homogeneous.  A Playbill article [...]

Student Forum: Mixed Heritage/Multiracial Identity in Contemporary America

[ September 21, 2009; 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM. ] From Alicia Castagno ‘12:
This Fall ‘09 semester, we (Alicia Castagno and Rachel Cross ‘12) will be facilitating a forum on multiracial identity and are looking for prospective students!

The forum will explore the American “mixed experience”, specifically through the study of mixed heritage/multiracial child identity formation, multiracial history, treatment of multiracial individuals [...]

Das Racist explains “blipsters”

Online magazine The Root has this embarrassingly unironic article about the rise of black hipsters, or… blipsters, thus somewhat legitimizing a term that probably should not have become a serious thing.
One Himanshu Kumar explains the advent of black people wearing tight pants to readers:
“You can’t really wear sagging jeans without being embarrassed on your skateboard,” [...]

Hapa Perspectives

Shannon Sun-Higginson ‘10 has created an awesome film featuring other Wesleyan students about being Hapa, or half-Asian. Check it out on Current.com and vote for it!

Hapa Perspectives

Shannon Sun-Higginson ‘10 has created an awesome film featuring other Wesleyan students about being Hapa, or half-Asian. Check it out on Current.com and vote for it!

Vagabond/Photographer/Activist takes on American Racism

Photographer Jacob Holdt presents “American Pictures: A Danish vagabond’s personal journey through the American underclass”
A self identified Danish vagabond presents his show (through a range of multi-media) on American poverty, racism and oppression. After spending many years hitchhiking across the US living among extreme poverty, KKK members, and being arrested by the secret service, he [...]

Vagabond/Photographer/Activist takes on American Racism

Photographer Jacob Holdt presents “American Pictures: A Danish vagabond’s personal journey through the American underclass”
A self identified Danish vagabond presents his show (through a range of multi-media) on American poverty, racism and oppression. After spending many years hitchhiking across the US living among extreme poverty, KKK members, and being arrested by the secret service, he [...]