Author: Steven

  • …And… a conjunction of history and imagination Lulu 2010-02-06 206 pages 4.3 wide × 6.9 tall Paperback ISBN: 5800039355462 Isabel Adonis And… is a psychological memoir of the lives of my mother and father, Catherine Alice and Denis Williams. Inspired in part by Jamaica Kinkaid’s Mr Potter, the writing explores the nature of identity, place,…

  • Is racial mismatch a problem for young ‘mixed race’ people in Britain? The findings of qualitative research Ethnicities Volume 12, Number 6 (December 2012) pages 730-753 DOI: 10.1177/1468796811434912 Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent, UK Peter Aspinall, Reader in Population Health at the Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent, UK Recent…

  • Interracial Love Is No Societal Cure-All truthdig 2012-02-17 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University A recently released report by the Pew Center is a belated Valentine’s Day gift to interracial families. The report indicates that intermarriage across racial and ethnic lines continues to be on the rise in the U.S. and the change is…

  •  The Rise of Intermarriage: Rates, Characteristics Vary by Race and Gender Pew Social and Demographic Trends Pew Research Center Washington, DC 2012-02-16 56 pages Wendy Wang, Research Associate Note from Steven F. Riley: The Pew Social and Demographic Trends data is report from 2010-06-04 for the year 2008, titled “Marrying Out: One-in-Seven New U.S. Marriages is…

  • Onerous passions: colonial anti-miscegenation rhetoric and the history of sexuality Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 4, 2011 pages 319-340 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.2011.605843 Nadine Ehlers, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Ehlers’s analysis revisits Foucauldian conceptualizations of the history of sexuality in order to map the inextricability of race, gender…

  • “Making the Chinese Mexican” is the first book to examine the Chinese diaspora in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It presents a fresh perspective on immigration, nationalism, and racism through the experiences of Chinese migrants in the region during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  • Passing Fancies: Color, much more than race, dominated the fiction of the Harlem Renaissance The Wall Street Journal 2011-09-03 James Campbell Harlem Renaissance Novels, Edited by Rafia Zafar, Library of America, 1,715 pages Harlem in the autumn of 1924 offered a “foretaste of paradise,” according to the novelist Arna Bontemps. He was recalling the dawn…

  • Intermarriage rates soar as stereotypes fall The Washington Post 2012-02-16 Carol Morello Virginia leads the nation in the percentage of marriages between blacks and whites, a new study by the Pew Research Center shows, barely four decades after state laws criminalizing interracial marriage were struck down by the Supreme Court. And one in five new…

  • Interracial marriage in US hits new high: 1 in 12 The Miami Herald 2012-02-16 Hope Yen, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Interracial marriages in the U.S. have climbed to 4.8 million—a record 1 in 12—as a steady flow of new Asian and Hispanic immigrants expands the pool of prospective spouses. Blacks are now substantially more likely…

  • Obama Has Shattered America’s Racial Ceiling San Diego Union-Tribune 2012-02-12 Constance M. Carroll, Chancellor San Diego Community College District If he could visit 21st-century America, Alexis de Tocqueville would be amazed to find Barack Obama, an African-American, as president of the United States. However, he would not be surprised to find that, despite this powerful…