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  • Brief History: Loving Day

    Brief History: Loving Day Time Magazine 2010-06-11 Christopher Shay In February 1961, Barack Obama’s parents did something that was illegal in 22 states and that 96% of the population disapproved of: they got married. In fact, interracial marriage, sex and cohabitation would remain illegal in much of the U.S. for another six years. Then on…

  • The “One Drop Rule” revisited: Mary Ann McQueen of Montgomery County, North Carolina

    The “One Drop Rule” revisited: Mary Ann McQueen of Montgomery County, North Carolina Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2010-12-21 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Many people, perhaps most, think of “race” as an objective reality. Historically, however, racial categorization has been unstable, contradictory, and arbitrary. Consider the…

  • Mixing Races: From Scientific Racism to Modern Evolutionary Ideas

    This book explores changing American views of race mixing in the twentieth century, showing how new scientific ideas transformed accepted notions of race and how those ideas played out on college campuses in the 1960s.

  • who and what you are

    who and what you are Contexts Volume 8, Number 4 (Fall 2009) Pages 64–65 DOI: 10.1525/ctx.2009.8.4.64 Sangyoub Park, Assistant Professor of Sociology Washburn University Barack Obama’s presidency and changes in how the U.S. Census tracks race underline the importance of the social construction of race and ethnicity in the United States. Changes in our racial…

  • The development of memory for own- and other-race faces

    The development of memory for own- and other-race faces Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Volume 98, Issue 4 (December 2007) pages 233–242 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2007.08.004 Gail S. Goodman Department of Psychology University of California, Davis University of Oslo Liat Sayfan Department of Psychology University of California, Davis Jennifer S. Lee Department of Psychology Cabrillo College, Aptos, California…

  • Performing Miscegenation: Rescuing The White Slave from the Threat of Interracial Desire

    Performing Miscegenation: Rescuing The White Slave from the Threat of Interracial Desire Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism (ISSN 0888-3203) Volume 13, Number 1 (Fall 1998) pages 71-86 Diana R. Paulin, Assistant Professor of English and American Studies Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut This examination of Bartley Campbell’s 1882 play, The White Slave, emerges out of…

  • “A blood mixture which experience has shown furnishes the very highest grade of citizen-material”: Selective Assimilation in a Polynesian Case of Naturalization to U.S. Citzenship

    “A blood mixture which experience has shown furnishes the very highest grade of citizen-material”: Selective Assimilation in a Polynesian Case of Naturalization to U.S. Citzenship American Studies (ISSN: ISSN 0026-3079) Volume 45, Number 3 (Fall 2004) pages 33-48 J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology Wesleyan University On the 11th of July,…

  • CU group promoting multiracial experience wins ’02 Perkins Prize

    CU group promoting multiracial experience wins ’02 Perkins Prize The Cornell Chronicle Cornell University 2002-04-02 A Cornell campus organization that promotes and celebrates the multiracial experience at the university and in the Ithaca community will be the recipient of the 2002 James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony. The group BLEND (Bi-/Multiracial Lineages,…

  • “Unknown” Students on College Campuses: An Exploratory Analysis

    “Unknown” Students on College Campuses: An Exploratory Analysis The James Irvine Foundation December 2005 20 pages Campus Diversity Initiative Evaluation Project Team (Claremont Graduate University and the Association of American Colleges and Universities): Daryl G. Smith, Co-principal Investigator José Moreno, Senior Research Analyst Alma R. Clayton-Pedersen, Co-principal Investigator Sharon Parker, Co-principal Investigator Daniel Hiroyuki Teraguchi,…

  • Blurred Borders for Some but not “Others”: Racialization, “Flexible Ethnicity,” Gender, and Third-Generation Mexican American Identity

    Blurred Borders for Some but not “Others”: Racialization, “Flexible Ethnicity,” Gender, and Third-Generation Mexican American Identity Sociological Perspectives Volume 53, Number 1 (Spring 2010) Pages 45–72 DOI: 10.1525/sop.2010.53.1.45 Jessica M. Vasquez, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Kansas How are the lives of middle-class third-generation Mexican Americans both racialized and gendered? Third-generation Mexican Americans in…