Media

Featured on ABC 5 Boston's "CityLine": Interracial Relationships, Loving Day and Passing

...TV interview also available at WCVB Boston

Dr. Dawkins discusses the ongoing impact of interracial romantic relationships, multiracial identities and passing in the United States with Loving Day founder Ken Tanabe and CityLine host Karen Holmes Ward.



Interviewed by Mixed Roots Blog: "Where Are They Now?"

...full transcript available at Mixed Roots Blog

Dr. Dawkins shares her experiences as a volunteer at the 2010 Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival in Los Angeles, CA and reveals what she's up to now.


Featured on "Is That Your Child?" Radio: Racial Passing and More

...full audio available at ITYC Podcast

Dr. Dawkins kicks ideas around with Michelle McCrary, host of Blog Talk Radio's "Is That Your Child?," about representations of mixed people in the media, society's thoughts on moms of color, and about her overall research regarding race, rhetoric and identity.


Featured on KPFK Truthdig Radio: On the Freedom Riders

...full audio available at KPFK's Truthdig Radio

Dr. Dawkins talks with Truthdig's Kasia Anderson about her experience meeting the Original and Student Freedom Riders during the 2011 Freedom Ride in Nashville, Tennessee.


Educator Spotlight in Campus Explorer's "The Explorer"

...full interview transcript available at The Explorer

Dr. Dawkins answers questions about the joys and sorrows of her career in education and writing. Stay tuned for her upcoming article for The Explorer on using popular culture in the classroom.


Featured on Truthdig Radio: "Mixed Race, Mixed Up"

...full audio available at KPFK's Truthdig Radio

Dr. Dawkins mixes it up with Truthdig's Kasia Anderson regarding her upcoming book, Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity, and how the press uses 2010 Census results to remix the nation's multiracial history.


"Passing as Property": Plessy v. Ferguson and the Rise of Identity Theft

Dr. Dawkins gives Claremont University a sneak peek of her new book, Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity at the 2011 NAES Conference.



Featured on KPFK's "Truthdig Radio"

...full audio available at KPFK's Truthdig Radio

Dr. Dawkins talks about her latest article on gender, culture and "The Rise of Mad Masculinity" as profitable entertainment and political problem with Truthdig's Kasia Anderson.


Featured on NPR's "Tell Me More"

...full audio and text available at National Public Radio

Dr. Dawkins discusses her forthcoming book Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity and trades expert opinions with Latoya Peterson of Racialicious.Com, Galina Espinoza of Latina Magazine and Farai Chedaya of NPR on beauty, mixed race identity and "mad masculinity" in The Beauty Shop on National Public Radio's Tell Me More.
    



Featured in TIME Magazine: "Mixed-Race Celebrities on Race"

...full text available at TIME Magazine

"Historically, racism is equated with segregation, separating people," says Marcia Alesan Dawkins, a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University. "In turn, we think racial progress is racial mixing. But the problem is, [that progress is] still based on appearance."