INTERVIEW WITH TEDDY ZEE
Carmen chats with movie producer Teddy Zee about the current state of representations of Asian-Americans in film and television. Zee is president of Ironpond, an entertainment company that bridges Hollywood and Asia. Previously, he was a top-level studio executive at Columbia and Paramount. He produced Hitch, Saving Face, The Pursuit of Happyness, and recently completed West 32nd.

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by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove
Every Friday afternoon we sum up the week’s best posts from New Demographic’s various projects. Here we go!
CONSCIOUS MEDIA MAKER
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One year later, how has BET changed? [...]

INTERVIEW WITH DANIEL GOLDEN
Carmen interviews Daniel Golden, author of The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges — and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates. Here’s the book description:
Every spring thousands of middle-class and lower-income high-school seniors learn that they have been rejected by America’s most exclusive colleges. What [...]

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by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove
Every Friday afternoon we sum up the week’s best posts from New Demographic’s various projects. Here we go!
RACE CHANGERS
a community of people working towards an anti-racist future, one week at a time

Assignment 7 – Talking about international adoption: This week, grab a friend, a co-worker, or a family member [...]

Sorry everyone, we’ve been really slammed and haven’t been able to put together a new episode this week. But check back next for a great interview with Daniel Golden, author of The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges — and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates.

by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove
Every Friday afternoon we sum up the week’s best posts from New Demographic’s various projects. Here we go!
Race Changers
a community of people working towards an anti-racist future, one week at a time

Assignment 6 – How our views of international adoption were shaped: Take some time this week to think [...]

INTERVIEW WITH PROF. MARLA BRETTSCHNEIDER
Jen interviews Professor Marla Brettschneider, author of the new book The Family Flamboyant: Race Politics, Queer Families, Jewish Lives. In the book, Marla Brettschneider draws on her own experience in a Jewish, multiracial, adoptive, queer family in order to theorize about the layered realities that characterize families in the United States [...]

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by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove
Every Friday afternoon we sum up the week’s best posts from New Demographic’s various projects. Here we go!
Race Changers
a community of people working towards an anti-racist future, one week at a time

Assignment 5 – Understanding the complexities of international adoption: We hope that through this assignment, we will all [...]