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  • Brooklyn Museum Acquires 18th Century Painting by Agostino Brunias Depicting Colonial Elite artdaily.org: The First Art Newspaper on the Net 2011-01-18 Agostino Brunias (Italian, ca. 1730-1796), Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a Landscape, ca. 1764-1796, Oil on canvas, 2010.59, Gift of Mrs. Carll H. de Silver in memory of her…

  • Because antidiscrimination efforts have focused primarily on race, courts have largely ignored discrimination within racial classifications on the basis of skin color. In this Article, Professor Jones brings light to this area by examining the historical and contemporary significance of skin color in the United States.

  • The Hapa Project: How multiracial identity crosses oceans UH Today University of Hawai`i Spring 2007 Alana Folen and Tina Ng Hawai`i—often overlooked as nothing more than a scenic paradise—recently started to live up to its “melting pot” reputation when a U.S. senator representing Illinois formally announced his presidential candidacy. With personal ties to Hawai`i, Sen.…

  • Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, & American Law (Anderson review) The Catholic Historical Review Volume 97, Number 1 (January 2011) pages 179-180 E-ISSN: 1534-0708, Print ISSN: 0008-8080 R. Bentley Anderson, S. J. Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies Fordham University In Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, & American…

  • Who Are We? New Dialogue on Mixed Race The New York TImes 2008-03-31 Mireya Navarro Jenifer Bratter once wore a T-shirt in college that read “100 percent black woman.” Her African-American friends would not have it. “I remember getting a lot of flak because of the fact I wasn’t 100 percent black,” said Ms. Bratter,…

  • Biracial Youth: The Role of the School Counselor in Racial Identity Development Professional School Counseling 2001-10-01 Teri Olisky Amy E. Benedetto Since the 1967 Supreme Court decision of Loving v. Virginia, which prohibits anti-miscegenation laws, the number of biracial births has more than tripled (Sandor & Larson, 1994). Schwartz (1998a) reported that through 1996 more…

  • In a society where race is a significant component of social identity and exerts an important influence on social relationships, the problems faced by couples who enter into ‘mixed’ marriages are especially difficult.

  • Race Passing and American Individualism University of Massachusetts Press February 2003 176 pages Cloth ISBN: 1-55849-377-8 (Print on Demand) Kathleen Pfeiffer, Professor of English Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan A literary study of the ambiguities of racial identity in American culture In the literature of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, black characters who pass for…

  • New NAACP Leader Looks Ahead National Public Radio Tell Me More 2008-05-20 Michel Martin, Host Benjamin Jealous is the new president of the NAACP. Jealous, a former news executive and lifelong human rights activist, discusses his new post and the ever-changing role of the NAACP in the civil rights movement. MICHEL MARTIN, host: I’m Michel…

  • He’s Black, Get Over It The American Prospect 2008-12-05 Adam Serwer We may not have chosen to be a hybrid people, anymore than we chose to come here in the first place, but that’s what we are now. And it’s a beautiful thing. In a provocatively titled op-ed for The Washington Post last Sunday, Marie…