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  • More metro Atlantans say they’re multiracial: Fast-growing segment represents a cultural shift that’s nationwide Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2011-09-03 Bo Emerson When Evelyn Brown-Wilder was growing up in Tuscaloosa, Ala., in the 1950s, life was a matter of warring opposites. Though some of her ancestors were white and her face was pale, the law said she was…

  • Generation, Degeneration, Miscegenation Intstitute for Research on Women IRW Distinguished Lecture Series 2011-12: (De)Generations: Reimagining Communities Rutgers University Thursday, 2012-04-12 (16:00 EDT reception; 16:30 EDT lecture) César Braga-Pinto, Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies Northwestern University Focusing on the cases of Brazil and the U.S., this presentation proposes to articulate the role played by gender representations…

  • “Speaking from the Margins: The Voice of the ‘Other’ in the Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay” studies Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay as poets who identify and represent some key forms of “otherness” may take in the British society of the 1980s and the 1990s.

  • This research monograph analyses and describes how multiracial undergraduates have come to think about race and racism.

  • ASEM 2535: The Multiracial Individual The Womens College, University of Denver Fall Quarter, 2011 Arthur C. Jones, Clinical Professor and Chair of Culture and Psychology From the beginning of its history, the United States has always been a place where bi-ethnic and bi-racial romantic alliances have been common, producing children with multi-ethnic and multi-racial roots.…

  • Taste, Manners, and Miscegenation: French Racial Politics in the US American Literary History Volume 19, Issue 3 (2007) pages 573-602 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajm025 Robert Fanuzzi, Assistant Chair and Associate Professor of English St. Johns University, Queens, New York A prequel: A French gourmand, in flight from political turmoil at home, arrives in post-Revolutionary America with a…

  • Review: ‘Spit Back a Boy’ by Iain Haley Pollock BuzzleGoose.com 2011-09-01 Nick Defina A student of MIT once remarked that attending that particular institution as an undergraduate was much like taking a drink of water from a firehose. The same could be said about reading Iain Haley Pollock’s collection of blistering poems, selected by Elizabeth…

  • An Interview with UW’s Lynet Uttal: Making the Asian American experience visible through learning Asian Wisconzine Volume 7, Number 9 (September 2011) Heidi M. Pascual Part 1 of 2 It was “quite an accident of fate” that Lynet Uttal became the director of the  University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Asian American Studies Program. Although Uttal has been…

  • The Invitation That Never Came: Mary Seacole After the Crimea History Today Volume 55, Issue 2 (2005) Helen Rappaport Helen Rappaport on Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale and the Post-Crimean War reputation of the woman recently voted ‘greatest black Briton’: Mary Seacole. In the summer of 1856, after the last British troops had made their weary…

  • Professor: Racial categorization remains necessary in Census Medill Washington Medill News Service Medill School, Northwestern University 2011-08-08 Angie Chung WASHINGTON—Does where we come from tell us whom we are? Why do we come in different colors? Does skin color equal race?   Talking about racial issues can be a never-ending discussion. It’s complicated. The Census…