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  • Doctor’s quest to engineer a “master race” in the early 1900s still hurting Virginia’s Indian tribes WTVR-CBS 6 TV Richmond, Virginia 2011-07-12 Mark Holmberg, Staff reporter RICHMOND— Richmond’s famous Hollywood Cemetery serves as the final resting place of presidents, statesmen and generals. Few have had the impact of Dr. Walter Plecker. His stormy legacy continues…

  • Multiracial Identity Development Arlington Public Schools Clarendon Education Center 2801 Clarendon Boulevard, Suite 308 Arlington, Virginia 2011-11-30, 10:00-12:00 EST (Local Time) Have you ever wondered about how children from multiracial backgrounds develop their racial identity?  Please join us in welcoming Dr. Ricia Weiner, Ms. Eleanor Lewis, and Ms. Veronica Sanjines, School Psychologists, who will share…

  • Not as simple as black or white The Voice 2011-11-21 Elizabeth Pears How mixed-race Brits are tackling issues surrounding dual heritage LAST MONTH, the UK’s fastest growing ethnic minority, as part of the BBC’s Mixed Britannia series, reignited the debate of what it means to be ‘mixed-race’. Demographers have predicted that Britain’s mixed-race population will…

  • Because of Intersex: Intersexuality, Title VII, and the Reality of Discrimination “Because of… [Perceived] Sex” New York University Law Review of Law & Social Change Volume 34, Issue 1 (2010) pages 55-121 Ilana Gelfman, Skadden Fellow Greater Boston Legal Services The federal doctrine of sex discrimination in employment depends on the underlying yet unstated assumption…

  • Ethnicities: Plays from the New West NeWest Press Spring 1999 208 pages paperback ISBN 13: 978-1-896300-03-0 Edited by: Anne Nothof, Professor Emeritus of English Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada Edited by Anne Nothof, the three plays included this anthology all deal with intercultural issues in Canada with humour, wit and at times, heartbreak. They range from…

  • Faking It: Poetics & Hybridity: Critical Writing 1984-1999 NeWest Press Spring 2000 288 pages Paperback ISBN 13: 978-1-896300-07-8 Fred Wah According to Fred Wah, the act of thinking critically is one of exploration and discovery. In Faking It, Wah demonstrates how writing poetry is writing critically. This scrapbook of Wah’s work—collected from fifteen years of…

  • Diamond Grill (10th Anniversary Edition) NeWest Press Fall 2006 208 pages paperback ISBN 13: 978-1-897126-11-0 Fred Wah This story of family and identity, migration and integration, culture and self-discovery is told through family history, memory, and the occasional recipe. Diamond Grill is a rich banquet where Salisbury steak shares a menu with chicken fried rice,…

  • ENGL 490: Multi-Ethnic and Mixed-Race Identities in Literature and Film University of British Columbia Winter 2011 Glenn Deer, Assistant Professor of English This course will examine literary and selected filmic representations of interracial and inter-ethnic identities, mixed-race relationships and intermarriage, and bicultural communities in comparative national and international contexts. We shall be especially concerned with…

  • At the turn of the twentieth century, a wave of Chinese men made their way to the northern Mexican border state of Sonora to work and live. The ties—and families—these Mexicans and Chinese created during led to the formation of a new cultural identity: Chinese Mexican.

  • Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940 University of North Carolina Press November 2003 256 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 8 illus., notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5563-8 Alejandra Bronfman, Professor of History University of British Columbia In the years following Cuba’s independence, nationalists aimed to transcend racial categories in order to…