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  • CLS 413: Comparative Studies in Theme: Generation, Degeneration, Miscegenation Northwestern University Winter 2012 César Braga-Pinto, Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies In this seminar we will discuss how and why late 19th-century and early 20th-century fiction often represented a crisis in models of biological reproduction. We will investigate how anxieties regarding miscegenation and degeneration impacted this…

  • Rejoining the Parts: A Conversation with Jane Lazarre About Race, Fiction, American History and Her New Novel, Inheritance Tenured Radical The Chronicle of Higher Education 2011-11-15 Claire Potter, Professor of History and American Studies Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Jane Lazarre is a writer of fiction, memoir and poetry who has published many books, beginning with…

  • Inheritance, A Novel Hamilton Stone Editions 2011-11-15 308 pages 9 x 6 x 1 inches ISBN: 978-0-9801786-8-5 Jane Lazarre Jane Lazarre’s compelling novel explores America’s mixed racial history through the lives of four families whose fates are intertwined across several generations from slavery to the present. Unflinching in its description of the horrors of slavery…

  • ENG 215: Beyond Black and White: Exploring “American” Identities Saint Joseph’s University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2011-2012   What does race mean in contemporary writing? How does it intersect with social class? What does it mean to be “multiracial” or “biracial”? What does it mean to be “American”? This course considers a variety of writing that explores…

  • Old Whine, New Vassals: Are Diaspora and Hybridity Postmodern Inventions? Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, Visiting Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Duke University Chapter in: New Ethnicities, Old Racisms? (pages 181-204) Zed Books May 1999 253 pages ISBN-10: 185649652X; ISBN-13: 978-1856496520 Edited by: Phil Cohen, Emeritus Professor University of East London The recent bag…

  • Students Break Out of Fixed-Race Box Teaching Tolerance: A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center 2011-11-15 Pamela Cytrynbaum, Instructor of Journalism Northwestern University My journalism students were brainstorming topics for their final story projects. I urged them to come up with compelling ideas that relate to their experiences but that push deeply into national…

  • The myth of the melting pot Biodemography and Social Biology Volume 1, Issue 4 (1954) pages 248-251 DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1954.9987204 David C. Rife Institute of Genetics The Ohio State University Elton F. Paddock Institute of Genetics The Ohio State University Myths are fictional legends, but more often than not they carry elements of truth. Popular beliefs…

  • The authors argue that the application of critical methods to fragments in successive discursive formations, including oral traditions, double meanings, epithets, fictions, and fantasies, reveal that Americans have always almost known of their biracial heritage. This re-examination of archival evidence in conjunction with critiques of novels, neologisms, and epithets enables the authors to reinterpret narratives…

  • ‘The rivers of Zimbabwe will run red with blood’: Enoch Powell and the Post-Imperial Nostalgia of the Monday Club Journal of Southern African Studies Volume 37, Issue 4 (December 2011) pages 731-745 DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2011.613691 Daniel McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom In his influential account of post-colonial melancholia, Paul Gilroy…