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  • (19) Half-frican: Black Identity in the Caribbean, England, and the United States

    (19) Half-frican: Black Identity in the Caribbean, England, and the United States The Colloge of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio 2011 Shannon King, Assistant Professor of History During the last presidential election, Rush Limbaugh, the controversial and conservative Republican radio personality, dubbed Barack H. Obama, our 44th President of the United States, as a “Half-frican.” Limbaugh, in…

  • In the Shadow of Her Ancestry: The New Tragic Mulatta

    In the Shadow of Her Ancestry: The New Tragic Mulatta North Carolina State University, Raleigh 2004 60 pages Vonda Marie Easterling A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of North Carolina State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts This thesis examines the plight of the infamous tragic…

  • The Black Peril and Miscegenation: The Regulation of Inter-racial Sexual Relations in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1933

    The Black Peril and Miscegenation: The Regulation of Inter-racial Sexual Relations in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1933 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada September 1991 140 Pages Katherine Gombay A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree  of M.A. For over forty years, at the turn…

  • Sharing Outsider Status and a Style of Coping

    Sharing Outsider Status and a Style of Coping The New York Times 2012-05-25 Jodi Kantor The United States quietly passed a milestone this spring, mostly lost amid the clamor of the presidential race: for the first time, neither party’s candidate is a white Protestant. The contenders are both from outsider groups that were once persecuted,…

  • Left By the Ship

    Left By the Ship Independent Lens Public Broadcasting Service 2010 Filmmakers: Emma Rossi-Landi Alberto Vendemmiati  In the 1970s and 1980s, the world was touched by the stories of Amerasian children, the offspring of U.S. military personnel stationed in Asia and the Pacific in the aftermath of World War II, and during the Korean and Vietnam…

  • The Myth of Majority-Minority America

    The Myth of Majority-Minority America Slate 2012-05-22 Matthew Yglesias, Business and Economics Correspondent It’s rare that a Census Bureau press release dominates the front pages, but last week’s headline “Most Children Younger Than 1 Are Minorities, Census Reports” was the thrilling exception. The shortage of white Anglo babies, the press was eager to tell us,…

  • Beyond Fixed or Fluid: Degrees of Fluidity in Racial Identification in Latin America

    Beyond Fixed or Fluid: Degrees of Fluidity in Racial Identification in Latin America The Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America Princeton University 2012-05-23 60 pages Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University Tianna S. Paschel, Post Doctoral Fellow (Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science as of July 2012) Department of Political…

  • Melungeon DNA Study Reveals Ancestry, Upsets ‘A Whole Lot Of People’

    Melungeon DNA Study Reveals Ancestry, Upsets ‘A Whole Lot Of People’ The Associated Press 2012-05-24 Travis Loller Jack Goins poses with a photo dated to have been taken in 1898 of his step-great-great grandfather George Washington Goins, who died in 1817, left, and great-great grandmother, Susan Minor-Goins who died in 1813 at the Hawkins County…

  • Kept in, kept out: the Formation of Racial Identity in Brazil, 1930-1937

    Kept in, kept out: the Formation of Racial Identity in Brazil, 1930-1937 Simon Fraser University November 1996 95 pages Veronica Armstrong Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Latin American Studies Program This thesis examines the roles of historian Gilberto Freyre and the Sao Paulo…

  • Race and Ethnicity in “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” and “The Rise of David Levinsky”: The Performative Difference

    Race and Ethnicity in “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” and “The Rise of David Levinsky”: The Performative Difference MELUS Volume 29, Numbers 3/4, (Autumn-Winter, 2004), Pedagody, Canon, Context: Toward a Redefinition of Ethnic American Literary Studies pages 307-321 Catherine Rottenberg, Assistant Professor Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics and the Gender Studies Program Ben-Gurion…