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  • Determining the (In)Determinable: Race in Brazil and the United States Michigan Journal of Race & Law Volume 14, Issue 2 (Spring 2009) pages 143-195 D. Wendy Greene, Assistant Professor of Law Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama Recently, the Brazilian states of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Mato Grasso du Sol have implemented…

  • Racial Purity and Interracial Sex in the Law of Colonial and Antebellum Virginia Georgetown Law Review Volume 77, Number 6 (August 1989) pages 1967-2029 A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Judge (1928-1998) United States Court of Appeals (3rd Circuit) Barbara K. Kopytoff, Professor of Law (1938-1999) University of Pennsylvania I. Introduction There is probably no better place…

  • Miscegenation and competing definitions of race in twentieth-century Louisiana Journal of Southern History Volume 71, Number 3 (August, 2005) pages 621-659 Michelle Brattain, Associate Professor of History Georgia State University MARCUS BRUCE CHRISTIAN, AN AUTHOR AND PROFESSOR AT DILLARD University, observed in the mid-nineteen-fifties that while New Orleans might be known for “gumbo, jambalaya, lagniappe,…

  • Resisting the Autobiographical Imperative: Anatole Broyard, Mixed Race and Silence HISTORY & POLITICS ON WEDNESDAY Research Seminars in Modern History & Politics Department of Modern History, Politics, and International Relations Macquarie University Sydney, Australia Room 127, Building W6A 2011-03-23, 12:00-13:15 AEST (Local Time) Maureen Perkins, Associate Professor of History, Anthropology and Sociology Curtin University, Perth,…

  • All Things Being Equal: The Promise of Affirmative Efforts to Eradicate Color-Coded Inequality in the United States and Brazil National Black Law Journal Volume 21, Number 3 (2009) 41 pages Tanya M. Washington, Associate Professor of Law Georgia State University The contrasted contexts of the United States and Brazil provide an intellectually fascinating framework for…

  • Race in American Science Fiction Indiana University Press 2011-01-06 paper 286 pages, 6 x 9 paper ISBN-13: 978-0-253-22259-6 cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-253-35553-9 Isiah Lavender, III, Assistant Professor of English University of Central Arkansas Blackness in a white genre Noting that science fiction is characterized by an investment in the proliferation of racial difference, Isiah Lavender III…

  • Diversity is Me (survival guide for mixed race people) Lulu Publishing 2010 212 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-557-54051-8 Also available in PDF Format Vanessa Girard As human beings we all share a spirit that demands identity, acknowledgment and regard. It is in the attempts to meet these demands that we encounter road blocks toward self-discovery. Who…

  • Counting by Race Can Throw Off Some Numbers The New York Times 2009-02-11 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent Race Remixed: The Pigeonhole Problem. Articles in this series explore the growing number of mixed-race Americans. The federal Department of Education would categorize Michelle López-Mullins—a university student who is of Peruvian, Chinese, Irish, Shawnee and Cherokee descent—as “Hispanic.”…

  • Halle Berry and Nahla: Not So Mixed, Not So Happy The Huffington Post 2011-02-09 Marcia Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University As we await the results of the 2010 Census it’s tempting to think that our growing comfort with categorizing people as multiracial has erased racism and the fear of interracial relations. But in a recent…

  • Where the interracials may take us Los Angeles Times 2010-09-21 Eli Steele Of all Americans, they represent the best opportunity to end identity politics and point America back to its tradition of individualism. We may be in the midst of an interracial baby boom. A recent Pew Research Center study reported that interracial marriages rose…