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  • Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels [Review] Rocky Mountain Review Rocky Mountain Language Association Volume 61, Number 1 (Spring 2007) pages 41-43 Susana M. Morris, Assistant Professor of English Auburn University Ryan Simmons. Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. 198p. Ryan Simmons’ Chesnutt and Realism:…

  • Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novel The University of Alabama Press 2006 208 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-1520-7 E-Book ISBN: 978-0-8173-8228-5 Ryan Simmons An important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism.   With the release of previously unpublished novels and a recent proliferation of critical studies on his life and work,…

  • Multicultural Artist and Educator to Speak at UVU Utah Valley University Orem, Utah 2011-03-24 Jim Rayburn Louie Gong, a nationally-recognized artist and mixed-heritage advocate, will speak at Utah Valley University on March 31 at 2 p.m. at the Sorensen Student Center, room 206A. Gong—of Nooksack, Squamish, Chinese, French and Scottish descent—is known best for his…

  • Mixed Dreams: Exploring “Multi” Experiences in the U.S. EXCO (Experimental College) Spring 2011 Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio Nicole Asong Nfonoyim The experiences and identities of mixed-race people in the United States have often been marginalized if not rendered invisible, silenced and subsumed under the dominant black-white binary. While mixed identities have been part of U.S.…

  • Comparative racisms: What anti-racists can learn from Latin America Ethnicities Volume 11, Number 1 (2011-03-31) pages 32-58 DOI: 10.1177/1468796810388699 Jonathan Warren, Chair of the Center for Brazilian Studies; Associate Professor of International Studies University of Washington Christina A. Sue, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Colorado, Boulder There has been extensive debate about the putative…

  • Racial/Ethnic Identities and Related Attributed Experiences of Multiracial Japanese European Americans Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development Volume 32 (October 2004) pages 206-221 Karen L. Suyemoto, Associate Professor of Psychology and Asian American Studies University of Massachusetts, Boston Surveys from 50 multiracial Japanese European Americans supported the endorsement of multiple simultaneous racial/ethnic identities and a…

  • Understanding what it means to be mixed Excalibur York University’s Community Newspaper 2011-03-30 Victoria Alarcon, Sports & Health Editor People have always seen me as different. It doesn’t matter where I went, when it happened or who it was; I’ve too often come face-to-face with puzzled looks and people examining me, trying to dissect what…

  • Undermining Race: Ethnic Identities in Arizona Copper Camps, 1880-1920 University of Arizona Press 2009 240 pages 6.0 x 9.0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-2745-8 Phylis Cancilla Martinelli, Professor of Sociology Saint Mary’s College of California, Moraga, California Undermining Race rewrites the history of race, immigration, and labor in the copper industry in Arizona. The book focuses on…

  • Mestizo in America: Generations of Mexican Ethnicity in the Suburban Southwest University of Arizona Press 2006 200 pages 6.0 x 9.0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-2504-1; Paper ISBN: 978-0-8165-2505-8 Thomas Macias, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Vermont How much does ethnicity matter to Mexican Americans today, when many marry outside their culture and some can’t even…

  • Passing as Black The University of Vermont University Communications 2011-03-30 Lee Ann Cox The new dynamics of biracial identity in America There’s a rule everybody knows. Not the golden one. Since the days of slavery and Jim Crow segregation, when “one drop” of black ancestry determined the whole of who you were, black-by-default is a…