Author: Steven

  • The Invisible Line Late Night Live ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Radio National 2011-06-13 Phillip Adams, Presenter Kris Short, Story Researcher and Producer Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law (and author of The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White) Vanderbilt University In America race has always been a potent…

  • Embodying race: gender, sex, and the sciences of difference, 1830-1934 Rutgers University, New Brunswick May 2008 356 pages Melissa Norelle Stein, Postdoctoral Fellow Center for Race and Ethnicity Rutgers University A Dissertation submitted to the Graduate School-New Brunswick Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of…

  • Life on the boundary: “Passing” and the limits of self-definition Rutgers University, Camden May 2011 46 pages Raven Marlenia Moses A thesis submitted to the Graduate School-Camden Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Graduate Program in English With the advent of…

  • It’s not easy being green: stress and invalidation in identity formation of culturally-complex or mixed-race individuals Texas A&M University May 2008 159 pages Samaria Dalia Roberts Perez Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS This is an exploratory…

  • Persistent Borderland: Freedom and Citizenship in Territorial Florida Texas A&M University August 2007 295 pages Philip Matthew Smith A Dissertation by Philip Matthew Smith Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in History Florida’s Spanish borderland was the result…

  • Racial Ideologies, Racial-Group Boundaries, and Racial Identity in Veracruz, Mexico Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 5, Number 3 (November 2010) pages 273-299 DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2010.513829 Recent scholarly interest in the populations of African descent in Latin America has contributed to a growing body of literature. Although a number of studies have explored the issue of blackness…

  • Debate: Are the Americas ‘sick with racism’ or is it a problem at the poles? A reply to Christina A. Sue Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 32, Issue 6 (July 2009) Special Issue: Making Latino/a Identities in Contemporary America pages 1071-1082 DOI: 10.1080/01419870902883536 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University Christina A. Sue commented on…

  • Campus Colorlines: The Changing Boundaries of Race Within Institutions of Higher Education in the Post-Civil Rights Era University of Southern California August 2007 675 pages Patricia Elizabeth Literte, Assistant Professor of Sociology California State University, Fullerton A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School University of Southern California In Partial Fulfillment of the…

  • “Best of both worlds” arguments are also problematic because at times they border on claiming a biracial identity is superior. While some biracial children may have exposure to diverse environments that gives them broad knowledge, it is unfair to assume that monoracial children cannot have this exposure or that biracial children do have this exposure……

  • Half-white is an insult The Guardian 2008-11-13 Michael Paulin The debate over how black Obama is obscures the racial reconciliation his election represents Barack Hussein Obama’s stunning victory against what was a thoroughly cynical Clinton campaign and a confused and morally bankrupt conservative Republican opposition is as historically significant as the fall of the Berlin…