Author: Steven

  • The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary Rutgers University Press 2011-01-19 248 pages, 3 photographs Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4783-1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4782-4 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8135-4989-7 Lori Harrison-Kahan, Full-time Adjunct Faculty in English Boston College During the first half of the twentieth century, American Jews demonstrated a commitment to racial justice as well as an…

  • Not an “Other” Online Newshour 1997-07-16 Paul Solman, Host Increasingly, many Americans find they don’t easily fit into any racial group. But will adding a new “multiracial” category on the census take away the effectiveness of the count? After a background piece by Betty Ann Bowser, Paul Solman leads a debate. PAUL SOLMAN: Well, what…

  • Charles W. Chesnutt and the Engendering of a Post-Reconstruction Multiracial Politics The Conversation Number 2 (2009-2010) Kirin Wachter-Grene Once a promising fiction writer and would-be spokesman for African-Americans, Charles W. Chesnutt promoted a form of multiracialism but is largely forgotten today. Kirin Wachter-Grene traces the development of Chesnutt’s ideas about the amalgamation of races and…

  • The Cuneys: A Southern Family in White and Black Texas Tech University August 2000 289 pages Douglas Hales, Professor of History Temple College, Temple, Texas A Dissertation in History Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Texas Tech University in Partial FulfiUment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy [Note from Steven F.…

  • Ethnic Identity of Biethnic Mexican American/European Americans Raised in Texas Texas Tech University May 2005 73 pages Kristal L. Menchaca A Thesis in Human Development and Family Studies Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Texas Tech University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science The primary purpose of this…

  • The Anti-Miscegenation History of the American Southwest, 1837 To 1970: Transforming Racial Ideology into Law Cultural Dynamics Volume 20, Number 3 (November 2008) pages 279-318 DOI: 10.1177/0921374008096312 Martha Menchaca, Professor of Anthropology University of Texas at Austin This article proposes that a historical analysis of court cases and state statutes can be used to illustrate…

  • Hapa Japan Conference Center for Japanese Studies Institute of East Asian Studies University of California, Berkeley 2011-04-08 through 2011-04-09 Introduction Agenda Registration Tickets: New Vision Award Recipient Jero, A Conversation & Mini-Concert Introduction Hapa is a Hawaiian term that is now widely used to describe someone of mixed racial or ethnic heritage. A New York…

  • Enka Superstar Jero: A Conversation and Mini-Concert University of California, Berkeley Wheeler Hall 2011-04-08, 20:00-21:15 PDT (Local Time) Free and open to the public The Center for Japanese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, is proud to announce that Jero, the Japanese-African-American enka singer, has been selected as the winner of the 2nd annual…

  • Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America [Review: Pascoe] Journal of Social History Volume 25, Number 1 (Autumn, 1991) pages 174-176 Peggy Pascoe (1954-2010), Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History University of Oregon Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America. By Paul R. Spickard (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press,…

  • White By Definition: Social Classification in Creole Louisiana Rutgers University Press May 1986 325 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-2088-9 Virginia Dominguez, Professor of Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Part I: The Legal Domain 2. Defining the Racial Structure 3. The Properties of Blood…