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  • The best fiction and poetry of 2010 The Washington Post Friday, 2010-12-10 …THE GIRL WHO FELL FROM THE SKY, by Heidi W. Durrow (Algonquin, $22.95). When several family members fall off the roof of a Chicago apartment building, the sole survivor is biracial Rachel, who goes to live with her grandmother in an African American…

  • Why Biracial Means Black: The History of Race in America Means Most Blacks Are Biracial to Some Degree The Root 2010-12-14 Lauren Williams, Associate Editor Checking a census box that says “black” doesn’t mean you’re denying your white ancestry. It’s just how we roll in America. When Halle Berry scored her milestone Oscar win in…

  • Passing for Black?  Biracial Americans Are Increasingly ‘Passing for Black’ The Root 2010-12-14 Thomas Chatterton Williams A new study posits that black-white biracial adults are increasingly choosing, like President Obama, to emphasize their blackness. But in this country, “black” has always been a mongrel affair. It created a minor media frenzy last spring when President Barack…

  • Development and Initial Validation of the Biracial Experiences of Discrimination Inventory University of La Verne, La Verne, California March 2010 329 pages Publication Number: AAT 3430242 ISBN: 9781124295695 Amanda L. Y. Rivera A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Psychology University of La Verne College of Arts and…

  • Hypodescent: New Work by Gabriel Mejia University of Wisconsin, Madison George L. Mosse Humanities Building 7th Floor Gallery Room 7240 455 North Park Street 2010-12-11 through 2010-12-16 Gabriel Mejia All events are free and open to the public. Closing Reception: 2010-12-16, 19:00-21:00 CST (Local Time). A meditation on identity and the social constructs of racial…

  • Who’s White? Who’s Black? Who Knows? Time Magazine: Healthland Friday, 2010-12-10 Jeffrey Kluger, Senior Editor Never mind what you’ve heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black…

  • Study Looks at Biracial Assignment The Harvard Crimson 2010-12-13 Hana N. Rouse, Crimson Staff Writer People classify biracial children as members of the minority parent group People have the tendency to classify those of biracial descent as members of their minority parent group rather than as equal members of both races, according to a recent…

  • Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness (review) Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 41, Number 3, Winter 2010 E-ISSN: 1530-9169, Print ISSN: 0022-1953 pages 478-480 Adriane Lentz-Smith, Hunt Family Assistant Professor History Duke Univeristy In October 1924, Leonard Rhinelander, scion of a wealthy and well-established New York family, wed Alice Jones,…

  • Natasha Trethewey: 2010 Littoral: The Journal of Key West Literary Seminar 2010-03-17 Arlo Haskell Natasha Trethewey is the author of three collections of poetry, including Native Guard, which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, Bellocq’s Ophelia, and Domestic Work, which won the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize. A native of Mississippi, a member of the Dark…

  • French110s: From Haiti to New Orleans John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Duke University Fall 2010 Deborah Jenson Haiti Lab: Undergraduate Opportunities The first Humanities Laboratory at Duke, one of the key goals of the Haiti Lab is to bring innovative, interdisciplinary research more fully into the undergraduate experience at Duke and, indeed, to invite undergraduates…