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  • Call for Papers—Inaugural Issue: Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies

    Call for Papers—Inaugural Issue: Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies “Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies” The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies (JCMRS) is a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS). Launched in 2011, it is the first academic journal explicitly focused on Critical Mixed Race Studies. Sponsored by…

  • This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature

    This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature Temple University Press November 2010 216 pages 5.5 x 8.5 1 halftone paper ISBN: 978-1-43990-217-2 cloth ISBN: 978-1-43990-216-5 eBook ISBN: 978-1-43990-218-9 Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies (founder of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN).) San Francisco State…

  • Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father and African American Literature

    Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father and African American Literature European Journal of American Studies 1, 2011, Varia Document 6 DOI: 10.4000/ejas.9232 Daniel Stein Georg-August-Universität Göttingen This article provides a series of close readings of Barack Obama’s autobiography Dreams from My Father. It places the narrative within the history of African American literature and rhetoric…

  • The Great Seducer: writings on Gilberto Freyre, from 1945 until today (O Grande Sedutor: escritos sobre Gilberto Freyre de 1945 até hoje)

    The Great Seducer: writings on Gilberto Freyre, from 1945 until today (O Grande Sedutor: escritos sobre Gilberto Freyre de 1945 até hoje) Cassará Publishing House (Blog) 2011 724 pages 16 X 23 cm ISBN: 978-85-64892-01-9 Edson Nery da Fonseca, Professor Emeritus University of Brasilia The book is the result of more than sixty years of study…

  • University of Missouri Press to Shut Down in July

    University of Missouri Press to Shut Down in July Riverfront Times St. Louis, Missouri 2012-05-25 Aimee Levitt The Post-Dispatch was not the only publishing institution in Missouri to have a bad week. Yesterday morning, Tim Wolfe, the president of the University of Missouri system, announced plans to shut down the University of Missouri Press.  The…

  • The Significance of Mixed-Race: Public Perceptions of Barack Obama’s Race and the Effect of Obama’s Race on Public Support for his Presidency

    The Significance of Mixed-Race: Public Perceptions of Barack Obama’s Race and the Effect of Obama’s Race on Public Support for his Presidency Social Science Research Network Working Paper Series 2011-08-15 55 pages DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1910209 Samuel Sinyangwe Stanford University This research paper seeks to understand white, black, and mixed-race Americans’ perceptions of President Barack Obama’s racial…

  • Author Q&A: Jessica Maria Tuccelli

    Author Q&A: Jessica Maria Tuccelli The Washington Independent Review of Books 2012-05-29 In the autumn of 1941, Amelia J. McGee, a young woman of Cherokee and Scotch-Irish descent, and an outspoken pamphleteer for the NAACP, hastily sends her daughter, Ella, alone on a bus home to Georgia in the middle of the night — a…

  • Glow, A Novel

    Glow, A Novel Viking (an imprint of Penguin Press) 2012-03-15 336 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780670023318 ePub eBook ISBN: 9781101560976 eBook Adobe Reader ISBN: 9781101557563 Jessica Maria Tuccelli In the autumn of 1941, Amelia J. McGee, a young woman of Cherokee and Scotch-Irish descent, and an outspoken pamphleteer for the NAACP, hastily sends her daughter, Ella,…

  • The future of whiteness

    The future of whiteness Salon 2012-05-29 Michael Lind Both Republican and Democratic racial politics are doomed. How culture shifts will reshape American ideas on race The Census Bureau has announced that a majority of new-born infants in the U.S. now belong to categories other than what the U.S. federal government calls “non-Hispanic white.”   While…

  • Neither Fish, Flesh, nor Fowl: Race and Region in the Writings of Charles W. Chesnutt

    Neither Fish, Flesh, nor Fowl: Race and Region in the Writings of Charles W. Chesnutt African American Review Volume 34, Number 3 (Autumn, 2000) pages 461-473 Anne Fleischmann The Supreme Court’s decision in The 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case is notorious for having sewn racial segregation into the fabric of American society. One of the…