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Schema interviewsMyths About Interracial Relationships | New Demographic teleseminar
The New Demographic is an anti-racism training company that goes beyond diversity buzzwords to tackle the real issues behind race and racism, and on Saturday, March 31st at 5pm Eastern / 2pm Pacific, they will be hosting a teleseminar called "Not Just Fetishists and Race Traitors: Challenging the Ways We Look At Interracial Relationships". Interested?
"Even after John and Yoko, and Heidi and Seal, interracial relationships are still considered taboo. Society's discomfort is especially obvious in the media, where interracial couples are constantly exploited for eroticism or shock value. In this seminar, Carmen Van Kerckhove examines the historical origins of this tension and explore the common assumptions made about interracial couples. Carmen demonstrates that while race plays an undeniable role in shaping the dynamics within interracial relationships, it does so in far more complex and subtle ways than people may initially think." (INFO at www.newdemographic.com)
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Not Just Fetishists and Race Traitors: Challenging the Ways We Look At Interracial Relationships
Date: Saturday, March 31, 2007
Time: 5:00 p.m. Eastern time / 2:00 p.m. Pacific time
Length: 60 minutes
Fee: $19.99 for either the live teleseminar or recording
www.newdemographic.com
Here are just some of the questions this teleseminar will address:
* Why is there such a fascination with interracial sex? (try Googling "interracial" and see what you get)
* What historical legacies have created ambivalence towards interracial relationships?
* Why do people associate the race of your partner with your racial loyalty?
* Why is it that images of interracial relationships are dominated by black/white couples, when in reality, blacks are the least likely among people of color to marry interracially?
* Why are Asian women 3 times more likely to marry white men than Asian men are to marry white women?
The PowerPoint slides for this teleseminar to get a sense of what we’ll be covering:
Keynotes and Seminars
* Beyond Diversity Buzzwords and Oppression Olympics:
A New Framework for Discussing Race and Racism
* Not Just Fetishists and Race Traitors:
Challenging the Ways We Look At Interracial Relationships
* Racialicious! When Race and Pop Culture Collide
* Recognizing Racial Stereotypes and Their Impact on the Workplace
* Cute But Confused: Myths and Realities of Mixed Race Identity
* Geishas and Math Nerds: Challenging Stereotypes about Asian-Americans and Understanding Their Origins
* Never The Twain Shall Meet: Interracial Relationships On the Big Screen
* Tragic Mulattos and Exotic Temptresses: (Mis)representations of Mixed Race People in the Media
For information on availability and fees, please email carmen@newdemographic.com.
* New Demographic MySpace:www.myspace.com/newdemographic.
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