#Sonia Smith-Kang

[cr1msonsta1ns]

For anyone interested in me making Headcannons, here are the characters I am willing to do them for.

I do Love and Deepspace, Creepypasta, The Legend Of Zelda, Attack On Titan, Demon slayer, Hunter X Hunter, Mortal Kombat, and Homicipher.

Creepypasta:

Male->

- Laughing Jack

- Eyeless Jack

- Jason the Toymaker

- BEN Drowned/ Benjamin Lawman

- Nathan the Nobody

- Jeff the Killer/ Jeffrey Woods

- Liu Woods/ Homicidal Liu/ Sully

- Bloody Painter/ Helen Otis

- Masky/ Tim Wright

- Hoodie/ Brian Thomas

- Ticci Toby/ Tobias Erin Rodgers

- Zalgo

- Slenderman

- Splendorman

- Trenderman

- Offenderman

- Kagekao

- Herobrine

- Surrenderman

- Hobo Heart

- Candypop

- Black Eyed Children

- Glitchy Red

- Scissormouth

- Smiling man

- X Virus

- Dr. Smiley

- Puppeteer

- Will Grossman

- Lost Silver

Female->

- Jane Everlasting

- Nina the Killer

- Lulu

- Sally Williams

- Lazari Swann

- Nurse Ann

- Judge Angel/ Dina

- Kate The Chaser

- Clockwork

- Zero

- Stripes

- Suicide Sadie

- Sadiya

- Kris Nelar

- Mary Vaughn

- Hachisukasama

- Laughing Jill

- Rouge

Monster->

- Rake

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- Seed Eater

- Mr. Widemouth

- Grinny Cat

- Glitchy Red

- Sonic.EXE

- Skin Taker

- SCP 173

- Red

- Pinkemania

- Momo

- Teki Teki

- Tails Doll

Legends Of Zelda:

Male->

- Link (Any)

- King Rauru (Totk)

- Ganondorf/ Ganon

- Robbie

- Master Kohga

- Sidon

- Deku Tree

- Tulin

- Teba

- King Dorephan

- Yunobo

- Beedle

- Sheik?

- Shad

- Colin

- Dark Link

- Shadow Link

- Ghirahim

- Happy Mask Salesman

- Revali

- Tael

- Zant

Female->

- Zelda (Any)

- Princess Midna

- Princess Mipha

- Queen Sonia

- Purah

- Yona

- Mineru

- Impa

- Paya

- Riju

- Buliara

- Navi

- Great Fairies

- Nabooru

- Princess Ruto

- Saria

- Tatl

-Urbosa

Animal/ Beasts:

- Chickens

- Epona

- Bokoblins

- Keese

- Horoblins

- Lizalfo

- Hestu

- Korok

- Demise

- Skull Kid

Attack On Titan:

Male->

- Levi Ackerman

- Connie Springer

- Eren Jeager

- Armin Arlert

- Grisha Jeager

- Zeke Jeager

- Porco Galiard

- Falco Grice

- Bertholdt Hoover

- Reiner Braustess

- Erwin Smith

- Marco Bodt

- Moblit

- Farlan

- Kenny Ackerman

- Kitz

- Dot Pyxis

- Hannes

- Keith Shadis

- King Fritz

- Nicolo

- Jean Kirschtein

- Onyankopon

- Floch Forster

Female->

- Mikasa Ackerman

- Yelena

- Sasha Braus

- Ymir (both)

- Petra

- Dina Fritz

- Hange Zoë

- Isabel

- Zofia

- Kiyomi Azumabito

- Carla Jeager

- Kuchel Ackerman

- Annie Leonheart

- Pieck Finger

Demon Slayer:

Male->

- Tanjiro Kamado

- Inosuke Hashibira

- Zenitsu Agatsuma

- Tengen Uzui

- Sanemi Shinuzugawa

- Giyu Tomioka

- Kagaya

- Obanai Iguro

- Gyomei

- Kyojuro Rengoku

- Muichiro Tokito

- Urokodaki

- Genya Shinuzugawa

- Yushiro

- Muzan Kibutsuji

- Rui

- Kokushibo

- Senjuro Rengoku

- Tanjuro Kamado

- Tecchin Tecchikawahara

- Kotetsu

- Hotaru Haganezuka

- Yoriichi

- Douma

- Akaza

- Hantengu

- Gyokko

- Gyutaro

- Daki

- Enmu

Female->

- Kanae Kocho

- Mitsuri Kanroji

- Amane

- Shinobu Kocho

- Kanao Tsuyuri

- Aoi Kanzaki

- Sumi Nakahara

- Kiyo Terauchi

- Naho Takada

- Nezuko Kamado

- Lady Tamayo

- Spider demon Mother

- Spider Demon Daughter

- Biwa lady/ Nakime

- Hinatsuru

- Makio

- Suma

Hunter x Hunter:

Male:

- Gon Freecs

- Killua Zoldyck

- Milluki Zoldyck

- Master Wing

- Zushi

- Isaac Netero

- Pariston Hill

- Ging Freecs

- Morel

- Hisoka Morrow

- Illumi Zoldyck

- Hanzo

- Kite

- Knov

- Shalnark

- Geretta

- Tonpa

- Zeno Zoldyck

- Silva Zoldyck

- Gotoh

- Kiriko

- Mike???

- Chrollo Lucilfer

- Kastro

- Feitan

- Phinks

- Franklin

- Bonolenov

- Omokage

- Uvogin

- Kortopi

- Razor

- Bloster

- Pokkle

- Meruem

- Shaiapouf

- Menthuthuyoupi

- Meleoron

- Welfin

- Cheetu

- Leol

- Zazan

- Koala

- Flutter

- Rammot

- Ikalgo

- Knuckle

- Shoot

Female:

- Alluka/ Nanika Zoldyck

- Biscut Krueger

- Neferpitou

- Cheadle Yorkshire

- Melody

- Palm Siberia

- Anita

- Ponzu

- Aunt Mito

- Kikyo Zoldyck

- Kalluto Zoldyck

- Amane

- Canary

- Tsubone

- Machi

- Shizuku

- Pakunoda

- Neon Nostrade

- Reina/ Shidore

- Komugi

- Hina

Mortal Kombat:

Male-

- Kung Lao

- Kenshi Takahashi

- Liu Kang

- Johnny Cage

- Bi-han

- Kuai Liang

- Raiden

- Rain

- Kano

- Smoke

- Shang Tsung

-Reptile

- Geras

- Jax

Female-

- Mileena

- Kitana

- Sindel

- Tanya

- Sonya Blade

- Cassie Cage

- Ashrah

- D'vorah

- Nitara

Love and Deepspace:

-Zayne

-Rafayel

-Xavier

-Sylus

Homicipher:

-Mr.Masque

-Mr.Crawling

-Mr.Chopped

-Mr.Stitch

-Ms.Blue Clad

-Mr.Gap

-Mr.Scarletta

-Mr.Machete

-Mr.Hood

-Mr.Silvair

-The Bride

-Ms.Nurse

-Mr.Wheelchair

-Hooded Child

-Hairdresser

-Mr.Hugeface

And these are whom I'm willing to make headcannons of. If you request any of these characters and I will happily make a headcannon of them as you request.

[mnaomaihq]

mw fcs ??

you can check out our other wanted fc posts right here, but here’s a bunch more for you : willow smith, fin argus, cheikh diakhate, sonia ben ammar, theo christine, adrianne ho, celeste o’connor, callum turner, aj clementine, duckie thot, ruairi o'connor, fernanda ly, aidan laprete, lyrica okano, quannah chasinghorse, lizeth selene, alex fitzalan, dana solomon, zack calderon, laura harrier, ok taecyeon, jesse james keitel, alba flores, najib abdi, yang hye-ji, ottawa kwami, tabria majors, song kang, khadijah red thunder, mathieu simoneau, heather baron gracie, bryan mugande, fka twigs, theo germaine, hong kyung, kristine froseth, han hyunmin, sasha lane, froy gutierrez, zion moreno, lil nas x, zhong feifei, tyler posey, kiana madeira, aria shaghasemi, chase sui wonders, shamir bailey, poppy liu !!

[fadcdhq]

FC suggestions for go go Tomago from big hero 6, mary MacDonald from hp, max Caulfield from lis, and the tooth fairy from fairly odd parents?

under the cut is all the fcs.

gogo: adachi rika, asami zdenka, hamabe minami, hirai momo, lyrica okano, minatozaki sana, nana komatsu, murase sea, mitski miyawaki, myoui mina, reina hardesty, rina fukushi, yoshikura aoi, iitoyo marie, takei emi, karen fukuhara, maeda atsuko, matsui rena, watanbe mayu, yamamoto sayaka, asami zdrenka, komiyama haruka, hirai momo, & myoui mina.

mary: auli'i cravalho, danielle rose russell, anna lambe, akina johnson, alva bratt, brec bassinger, brianna tju, chloe bailey, ryan destiny, chou tzuyu, giorgia whigham, hafsanur sancaktutan, kim yeonhee, kim hyunjin, meg donnelly, macarena garcia, park sumin, yara shahidi. zoe love smith, simay barlas, sonia ben ammar, sydney park, yandeh sallah, vajen van den bosch, sabrina carpenter, lee jinsook, lee naeun, lisa onuoha, lovie simone, madison bailey, olivia holt, olivia o'brien, natalia alyn lind, olivia dejonge, ilayda alisan, isabella gomez, jessica vu, kang yaebin, josephine langford, kiernan shipka, kathryn newton, jessica alexander, katie douglas, kristine froseth, maia mitchell, quintessa swindell, sivan alyra rose, ariela barer, ellie desautels, lulu antariksa, bailee madison, liana liberato, maisie williams, victroria moroles, cindy kimberly, becky g, haley lu richardson, alisha boe, courtney eaton, zendaya coleman, samantha logan, ryan destiny, maddison jaizani, katie stevens, kaitlyn dever, moon ga-young, bruna marquezine, & francesca michielin.

max: auli'i cravalho, danielle rose russell, anna lambe, akina johnson, alva bratt, brianna tju, chloe bailey, ryan destiny, chou tzuyu, hafsanur sancaktutan, kim yeonhee, kim hyunjin, meg donnelly, macarena garcia, park sumin, yara shahidi, zoe love smith, simay barlas, sonia ben ammar, sydney park, yandeh sallah, lee jinsook, lee naeun, lisa onuoha, lovie simone, madison bailey, ilayda alisan, isabella gomez, jessica vu, kang yaebin, katie douglas, maia mitchell, quintessa swindell, sivan alyra rose, ariela barer, ellie desautels, lulu antariksa, bailee madison, liana liberato, maisie williams, victroria moroles, cindy kimberly, becky g, haley lu richardson, alisha boe, courtney eaton, zendaya coleman, samantha logan, ryan destiny, maddison jaizani, katie stevens, kaitlyn dever, moon ga-young, bruna marquezine, & francesca michielin.

the tooth fairy: auli'i cravalho, danielle rose russell, anna lambe, akina johnson, alva bratt, brec bassinger, brianna tju, chloe bailey, ryan destiny, chou tzuyu, giorgia whigham, hafsanur sancaktutan, kim yeonhee, kim hyunjin, meg donnelly, macarena garcia, park sumin, yara shahidi. zoe love smith, simay barlas, sonia ben ammar, sydney park, yandeh sallah, vajen van den bosch, sabrina carpenter, lee jinsook, lee naeun, lisa onuoha, lovie simone, madison bailey, olivia holt, olivia o'brien, natalia alyn lind, olivia dejonge, ilayda alisan, isabella gomez, jessica vu, kang yaebin, josephine langford, kiernan shipka, kathryn newton, jessica alexander, katie douglas, kristine froseth, maia mitchell, quintessa swindell, sivan alyra rose, ariela barer, ellie desautels, lulu antariksa, bailee madison, liana liberato, maisie williams, victroria moroles, cindy kimberly, becky g, haley lu richardson, alisha boe, courtney eaton, zendaya coleman, samantha logan, ryan destiny, maddison jaizani, katie stevens, kaitlyn dever, moon ga-young, bruna marquezine, aja naomi king, ana de armas, alexandra daddario, alisha wainwright, amber stevens-west, brenda song, brianne howey, candice patton, crystal reed, dianna agron, emily vancamp, jamie chung, janel parrish, jessica parker kennedy, julia jones, kelly marie tran, lesley-ann brandt, logan browning, megan tandy, nathalie kelley, odette annabelle, olivia munn, teresa palmer, zoe kravitz, & francesca michielin.

[keikilahelas]

𝑺𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒔:

bryce lahela [✰︎, ✰︎, ✰︎]

rafael aveiro [✰︎, ✰︎, ✰︎]

ethan ramsey [✰︎]

aurora emery [✰︎]

tyril starfury [✰︎]

mal volari [✰︎, ✰︎]

nia ellarious [✰︎]

imtura tal kaelen [✰︎, ✰︎]

corrupted aerin valleros [✰︎]

adrian raines [✰︎, ✰︎]

jax matsuo [✰︎]

kamilah sayeed [✰︎, ✰︎]

lily spencer [✰︎]

rheya apostolous [✰︎]

serafine dupont [✰︎]

thomas mendez [✰︎, ✰︎]

raleigh carrera [✰︎, ✰︎]

zadie choi [✰︎]

tom sato [✰︎]

andy kang [✰︎]

aiden zhou [✰︎]

sean gayle [✰︎]

estela montoya [✰︎]

atlas ernhardt [✰︎, ✰︎]

logan [✰︎]

liam rys [✰︎]

jaime lewis [✰︎]

kenna rys [✰︎]

empress azura [✰︎]

hayden young [✰︎]

alana kusuma [✰︎]

charlie smith [✰︎]

sonia alvez [✰︎]

michael harrison [✰︎]

[indescribablechoices]

MC Masterlist

Here’s a list of all of my MCs and their romances to make things easier if people ever wanna send prompts or asks or whatever. Ask box is always open! (gif warning)

The Royal Romance

Name: Alicia Harper

Romance: King Liam Rys

Faceclaim: Gal Gadot

Perfect Match

Name: Kairi ‘Kai’ Park

Romance: Damien Nazario, Hayden Young and Alana Kasuma

Faceclaim: Gina Rodriguez

It Lives In The Woods

Name: Marguerite ‘Maggie’ Young

Romance: Andy Kang

Faceclaim: Lana Condor

It Lives Beneath

Name: Spencer ‘Penn’ Vance

Romance: Tom Sato

Faceclaim: Victoria Justice

America’s Most Eligible

Name: Winnie Reed

Romance: Mackenzie

Faceclaim: Margot Robbie

Bloodbound

Name: Emeline ‘Em’ Martinez

Romance: Adrian Raines

Faceclaim: Nina Dobrev

The Haunting of Braidwood Manor

Name: Hadley Byrd

Romance: Eleanor Waverley

Faceclaim: Tessa Thompson

Veil of Secrets

Name: Marlowe ‘Marli’ Greene

Romance: Flynn O’Malley

Faceclaim: Anna Kendrick

Desire and Decorum

Name: Jess Woodmire

Romance: Luke Harper

Faceclaim: Naomi Scott

The Elementalists

Name: Hallie Russell

Romance: Beckett Harrington

Faceclaim: Zoey Deutch

A Courtesan of Rome

Name: Korina of the Capaldion

Romance: Syphax and Sabina

Faceclaim: Oona Chaplin

The Heist: Monaco

Name: Nina Nazario-Young

Romance: Sonia Alves

Faceclaim: Diane Guerrero

Open Heart

Name: Cora Chase

Romance: Rafael Aveiro (in-game), Kyra Santana (in personal canon)

Faceclaim: Rachael Taylor

Ride or Die: A Bad Boy Romance

Name: Rose Wheeler

Romance: Mona (during the book), Ingrid (at college)

Faceclaim: Zendaya Coleman

Across The Void

Name: Bo Elara

Romance: Sol

Faceclaim: Brie Larson

Wishful Thinking

Name: Kit Huxley

Romance: Jaime Lewis

Faceclaim: Jamie Chung

Passport To Romance

Name: Eleanor ‘Nell’ Shepherd

Romance: Ahmed Khabbaz

Faceclaim: Naya Rivera

Red Carpet Diaries

Name: Bailey Johnson

Romance: Matt Rodriguez

Faceclaim: Karen Gillan

Big Sky Country

Name: Daphne Dehaven

Romance: Sawyer Oakley

Faceclaim: Anne Hathaway

Rules of Engagement

Name: Katherine Leanne ‘Kaylee’ Buchanan

Romance: Leo Rys

Faceclaim: Katherine Langford

Home For The Holidays

Name: Robyn Joy

Romance: Holly Wright

Faceclaim: Emma Watson

Nightbound

Name: Willow Greeves

Romance: Nik Ryder

Faceclaim: Shay Mitchell

Platinum

Name: Adelyn Oliver

Romance: Shane Parker

Faceclaim: Adria Arjona

Bachelorette Party (Not Finished)

Name: Mallory Jackson

Romance: TBD

Faceclaim: DeWanda Wise

Sunkissed

Name: Skylar Bell

Romance: Samson

Faceclaim: Aimee Carrero

Mother of the Year

Name: Lorelei ‘Lori’ Day

Romance: Thomas Mendez

Faceclaim: Gugu Mbatha-Raw

The Royal Masquerade

Name: Ophelia of House Aster

Romance: Kayden Vescovi

Faceclaim: Sophie Skelton

Baby Bump

Name: Theo Cassidy

Romance: Myra Dixon

Faceclaim: Katie McGrath

Blades of Light and Shadow

Name: Aurora Feathertide

Romance: Nia Ellarious

Faceclaim: Aiysha Hart

Distant Shores

Name: Emily Hawthorne

Romance: Charlie Smith

Faceclaim: Jessica Parker Kennedy

The Nanny Affair

Name: June Martinez

Romance: Sam Dalton

Faceclaim: Mila Kunis

Queen Bee

Name: Briar Hughes

Romance: Ian Kingsley (in game), Carter Jackson (post game, or when PB will stop being cowards)

Faceclaim: Caitlin Stasey

The Unexpected Heiress

Name: Marianne Hayes

Romance: John Somerset

Faceclaim: Shannyn Sossamon

Foreign Affairs

Name: Maia Jackson

Romance: Tatum Mendoza

Faceclaim: Hailee Steinfeld

Wolf Bride

Name: Felicity Monroe

Romance: Morgan

Faceclaim: Gemma Chan

[multiracialmedia-blog]

How Do We Self Identify?

The topic of how we self identify in the Multiracial Community is raised a lot both among fellow multiracial people and by monoracial people. Do we pledge allegiance to one or more of our races? Do we reject one or more of our races? And why? And does the way we self-identify upset both monoracial and multiracial people?

Well, this is how I feel about that:

How do we self identify?

How Do We Self Identify? Race is a topic of endless debate—both among monoracial and multiracial people. For monoracial people, there is only one way to self identify. If their parents are the same race, their own race is branded on them from the moment they are born. This isn’t the case with multiracial people. For one thing, our looks can change the older we get. I was born with a darker complexion and straight, very thin hair. As I grew, my complexion lightened and when puberty set in, my hair curled up.

And I looked nothing like either of my brothers—I still don’t. One brother came out several shades darker and with an afro and the other looked Japanese from the moment he was born. And so I suppose we too were branded upon birth. My godmother emphatically told my mother, “you have one Black child, one Japanese child and one White child.”

While looks may tell one story, how we’re raised can tell another. As it happens, my parents had already made up their minds to raise us to self identify as Black. We knew our mother was half Black and half Japanese and our father was White and at home we could embrace all three, but in the street where people “shoot first and ask questions later” (usually only metaphorically speaking), we were Black … period.

And then something interesting happens to us multiracial people: Life experience. How we self identify growing up is subject to change once we’re out in the world in mingling amongst others not raised with us. The older we get, the more life experience we gain, the more race becomes fluid. I so often say that because race is fluid, I can be Black, White and multiracial all within the same conversation.

  There’s obviously no one correct answer, and despite what outside observers might think, it can change from one family member to another—even when they have the same parents.

So How Do We Self Identify?

Check out the survey and see what these contributors are talking about.

Click on the image below and it will open in a new page. Enjoy and I would love to know your comments! (For optimal viewing, I suggest you zoom out about three times.)

I’d like to thank everyone who participated and  Tricia Principe, the graphic designer who took our responses and created this infographic.

  How Do We Self Identify? if you want to check out other voices of the Multiracial Community click here Multiracial Media

[fariharoisin]

Books I’ve read in 2018 (so far)

1. Calling A Wolf A Wolf by Kaveh Akbar

2. The Lyrics by Fanny Howe

3. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen

4. Babette by Sara Denizakant 

5. Essays in Love by Alain De Botton

6. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

7. Goodstock Strange Blood by Dawn Lundy Martin

8. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

9. The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Majahan

10. Feel Free by Zadie Smith

11. Cannibal by Safiyah Sinclair

12. In the Heart of the Heart of a Country by Etel Adnan

13. Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (!!!!!!!!!!!)

14. Homegirls & Handgrenades by Sonia Sanchez

15. Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón 

16. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land by Aimé Cesaire

17. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

18. What Kind of Omen Am I by zakia henderson brown (!!!!!!!!!!!)

19. The Little Edges by Fred Moten

20. Does Your House Have Lions by Sonia Sanchez

21. How To Write An Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee (!!!!!!!!!!!)

22. Wade In Water by Tracy K. Smith

23. American Sonnets For my Past and Future Assassin by Terrence Hayes

24. Shiner by Maggie Nelson

25. Sourheart by Jenny Zhang (!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

26. Surge by Etel Adnan

27. Eye Level by Jenny Xie

28. Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam (!!!!!!!!) 

29. The Shutters by Ahmed Bouanani

30. If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

31. My Private Property by Mary Ruefle

32. White Egrets by Derek Walcott 

[dixie78]

Jobseekers resort to ‘resumé whitening' to get a foot in the door, study shows

It’s a disturbing practice called “resumé whitening” and involves deleting telltale signs of race or ethnicity from a CV in the hopes of landing a job.

And it happens more often than you’d think.

According to a two-year study led by University of Toronto researchers, as many as 40 per cent of minority jobseekers “whiten” their resumés by adopting Anglicized names and downplaying experience with racial groups to bypass biased screeners and just get their foot in the door.

It’s when “Lamar J. Smith” becomes “L. James Smith” or “Lei Zhang” morphs to “Luke Zhang” — and the callback rates soar.

“It’s really a wake-up call for organizations to do something to address this problem. Discrimination is still a reality,” said Sonia Kang, lead author of “Whitened Resumés, Race and Self-Presentation in the Labour Market,” to be released in the Administrative Science Quarterly Journal Thursday.

“It shows us that racial minorities aren’t just passively receiving this discrimination. They are trying to do something about it.”

In the study, only 10 per cent of black job applicants — created by researchers based on real candidate profiles — received callbacks for job interviews if they stuck to their African names and experience with black organizations. However, the callback rate went up to 25.5 per cent if their names were “whitened” and their black experience was removed from their resumés.

In the case of the Asian applicants, only 11.5 per cent received callbacks if they used their Asian-sounding names and experience, compared to 21 per cent using whitened resumés.

When seeking jobs with employers known to have a pro-diversity image, minority job applicants were less likely to “whiten” their resumes, the study found.

But, perhaps most surprising, even with pro-diversity employers, the odds of getting called in for an interview were greater when a minority applicant took steps to hide their race, the research shows.

The study consists of three parts: Focus group interviews with black and Asian university students in both U.S. and Canadian universities about their experience of resumé whitening, a laboratory experiment on how jobseekers tailor resumés to pro-diversity employers and a resumé audit of interview calls from real employers to fictitious job applicants who engaged in varying degrees of resumé whitening.

Thirty-six per cent of the 59 students — 29 blacks and 30 Asians of different disciplines from finance to medicine, law, education and IT — who participated in the in-depth interviews reported they personally engaged in resumé whitening and two-thirds said they knew others who did.

“I am very involved in black organizations on campus... Association of Black Women, Black Students’ Association, Black Christian Fellowship. I was a little hesitant about having so many black organizations on my resumé,” a female college senior told researchers.

“I did take off a couple of black organizations... I think to me it was just trying to tone down the blackness, for lack of a better word.”

“Freshman year in my resumé I put my legal name, which is very Chinese-sounding. And then I went to Career Services, and they told me to put my American nickname on it instead,” said a female senior of Chinese background.

Participants said they adopted the whitening techniques in order to signal to prospective employers an ability to “fit in” with white employers and co-workers and to show they are “uninterested” in political racial causes.

In part two of the study, 119 undergraduates were invited to draft resumés for job postings for two companies advertised as “equal opportunity” employers. The study found the proportion of students who whitened their resumé was up to two times lower when the employer was presented as one that values diversity.

In the third part of the research, 1,600 fictitious resumés — with no whitening, a whitened first name, whitened experience or a whitened first name and whitened experience — were sent in response to job ads.

In total, 267 or 16.7 per cent of the applications led to a job interview request. For black applicants, the callback gap between unwhitened resumés and those for which both the name and the experiences were whitened was 15.5 percentage points; for Asians, the gap was 9.5 percentage points.

Kang, an assistant professor of organizational behaviour and human resources management, said employers must go beyond the rhetoric of how they appreciate diversity in their workforce. “By creating a false sense of security, these (diversity) statements merely provide an illusion of diversity that might end up making things worse for minority applicants.”

How minority job applicants ‘whiten’ their resumés:

Unwhitened: Name of a black applicant on resumé appears as “Lamar J. Smith”;

Whitened: Changed to “L. James Smith”;

Unwhitened: Name of an Asian applicant on resumé appears as “Lei Zhang”;

Whitened: Changed it to “Luke Zhang”;

Unwhitened: Lists involvement as vice-president of Aspiring African American Business Leaders and peer counsellor of Black Students’ Association;

Whitened: Removes those organizations and replaces with causes such as “Give Kids a Smile Day” and first-year student orientation;

Unwhitened: Lists volunteer experience and interests that are exclusively within Korean community organizations;

Whitened: Removes them and replaces with hiking, snowboarding and activities common in Western culture;

Unwhitened: Being the political action chair of Black Students Association;

Whitened: Changes that to member of a generic minority business and entrepreneur group;

*Only 10 per cent of the fictitious black job applicants received callbacks for job interviews if they stuck to their African names and experience with black organizations. However, the callback rate went up to 25.5 per cent if their names were whitened and black experience was removed from their resumés.

**Only 11.5 per cent of the Asian job applicants received callbacks for job interviews if they used their Asian-sounding names and experience with Asian groups. However, the callback rate went up to 21 per cent if their names were whitened and Asian experience was removed from their resumés.

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Reflections on the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference (CMRS) 2017

Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference 2017

Following are the reflections of the Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS) Conference 2017 by Thomas Lopez—President of the Multiracial Americans of Southern California (MASC).

Back in February 2015 I met with Duncan Williams, Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Sonia Smith-Kang and Shannon Haugh over Vietnamese fusion food in Atwater Village to kick-off the site planning meeting for the Critical Mixed Race Studies 2016 conference to be held at the University of Southern California (USC). It occurred to me then that fusion food gets its name from the people eating it as much as what is on the menu. As the President of Multiracial Americans of Southern California, I knew my involvement would be more oversight than direct action since seeing to the management of MASC keeps me busy enough. Still, I sat-in in part because I needed to know in what direction we were moving and also in-part for the good eats.

We quickly realized this conference would be unlike any of the ones before. For starters, one of the first things we did was review dates in the Fall to hold the conference to maintain the biannual schedule set by the initial organizers. It soon occurred to us that many dates were unavailable due to USC’s football schedule. For those that don’t know, you don’t want to be anywhere near USC on a game day, unless you’re going to the game. As we started striking out dates due to conflicts we eventually settled on a shift of the conference to the Spring and thus was born the new Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference of 2017.

Personally, this conference would be different because my daughter would be attending at the age of thirteen. As part of her 8th grade parochial school program she needed to do a “synthesis project” in the community so she chose to help out at the conference. Having my “little assistant” tagging along proved to be quite valuable. But more importantly I was surprised by how comfortable she felt among so many academics. At one point, I was facilitating the Latinas and Latinos of Mixed Ancestry (LOMA) caucus and as we went around the room making introductions everyone declared their affiliation. “I’m with Such-and-Such University,” and, “I represent this non-profit program,” etc. When it came to my daughter’s turn without skipping a beat she said “I’m with Our Lady of Lourdes Elementary/Junior High.” Even more awesome was the lack of condescension from anyone there. If only we all gave more respect to our engaged youth.

Thomas Lopez with Maria P. P. Root

About 25 years ago I went to my first multiracial conference at Cal State San Francisco. The keynote speaker was this little but feisty lady that dropped a tone of wisdom on us. Her name was Maria P. P. Root and her words would become known as the “Bill of Right for People of Mixed Heritage,” arguably the most prolific document to emerge from the multiracial movement. At the conference we honored her with a standing ovation and she demonstrated she’s still as feisty and dedicated to the mixed community as ever. And then to follow that up with a keynote by my colleague and fellow Latino of Mixed Ancestry Rudy Guevarra as a one-two punch was programming genius. Rudy confided with me the day before that he had written a different keynote speech but felt compelled to revise it due to the results of the recent election. Well, I think most of us were glad he did. He spoke our minds about “45” and reminded us that it’s easy to break down walls; even the Kool Aid man can do it. OH YEAH!

Continuing the walk down memory lane I was surprised to run into my old friend Greg Mayeda, one of the founders of Hapa Issues Forum. We were both students at Cal back in the day. He was getting his degree in law; I was getting my bachelor’s in engineering. I’m always amazed how sometimes you meet someone after years apart and it’s as if no time has passed. I swear Greg looked exactly the same. He reminded me that I look different, namely the hair. Not only is it much shorter (as in no longer down to my elbows) but there’s a lot less of it in general. To then see my old friends connect with my new ones, such as Jeff Chiba-Stearns, is truly something special and the circle is now complete.

I have this saying that “you never really get to enjoy your own party.” Add to that file of experiences the following. MASC presented on its multiple educational initiatives but I couldn’t attend my own panel. The board sent me on an errand to attend another panel on child education that worked out well because I was able to hear Joanne Calore’s presentation on multiracial elementary education in the San Francisco Bay Area. And then the panel on multiracial studies history with Maria Root, Reginald Daniel, Paul Spickard, and Cindy Nakashima (what Paul called the OG panel) was scheduled the same time as my own roundtable on the proposed Census changes. While our roundtable was an important topic, I have to admit we wrapped up as quickly as we could to ditch our roundtable and catch the tail end of the OG. I was just able to catch Paul Spickard’s call to resistance of the current administration when I received an urgent text to help clean-up the registration room because the reservation time was about to expire. Conference organizer Laura Kina knows about trying to enjoy your own party better than anyone. Now there’s someone that earned a vacation! Can’t wait to hear the recorded panel.

Don’t get me wrong. There was still much of this conference for which to be thankful. MASC premiered its elementary parent/teacher guide “Being All of Me” that went flying off our table before the Hapa Japan Concert. Raising money was great, but even more exciting was the excitement people had to have a resource like this available. Kudos goes to Farzana Nayani, the guide author and past MASC President, for her talent and foresight to create such a thing. The next conference in March of 2018 at the University of Maryland is already shaping up to be momentous and given recent events that have happened on campus, this is an event that can’t come soon enough.

The closing night screening of Mixed Match by Jeff Chiba-Stearns was a bittersweet moment. Not only was the film very touching, but it was six years in the making and I’m going to miss not seeing Jeff at so many events hovering around with his camera. For several years MASC has been the fiscal sponsor for Mixed Marrow, Athena Asklipiadis’s brainchild and major subject of the film. I have come to accept Mixed Marrow as more than just another program of MASC but rather a mission to save lives. There were so many good memories crammed into that weekend I can’t easily dump them all here. I already miss seeing all these people whose lives I usually only get to catch in glimpses on Facebook. However, this conference still served its primary purpose in my life: to recharge my batteries and inspire me to keep doing what I do every day, moving the multiracial movement further along. Thank you to everyone involved and thank you Critical Mixed Race Studies.

Thomas has been a member of MASC for over fifteen years and is a past president of the organization. He has made numerous television, print, and on-line media appearances and speaking engagements as a keynote and panelist. As a long-time board member he has also organized conferences, a mini-film festival, and diversity training workshops. Apart from MASC, Thomas is a mechanical engineer having worked in multiple industries the most recent being medical devices. He was born and raised in Southern California with parents from Mexican American and German-Polish roots.

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