Author: Steven

  • White Americans, The New Minority? Non-Blacks and the Ever-Expanding Boundaries of Whiteness Jonathan W. Warren, Associate Professor of International and Latin American Studies University of Washington France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Journal of Black Studies Volume 28, Number 2 (November 1997) pages 200-218 Argues that in the United States…

  • “Skinfolks” and “Kinfolks”: Racial Passing in American Films 1930-1960 Department of American Studies University of Virginia Summer 2002 Introduction Characters with a desire to become something that they are not in order to escape their realities have been present from the earliest American films to the present. The popular encyclopedia of American cinema, Videohound, categorizes…

  • ‘A modelling competition with a difference’ is being pioneered by social enterprise mix-d:™ at MMU’s business incubator, Innospace News and Events Manchester Metropolitan University Business School Manchester, England 2010-08-02 A MODELLING competition – the first of its kind in the UK to find the mixed race face of 2010 is being organised by social enterprise,…

  • The social care system and mixed race young people: placing the individual child at the heart of decision making People in Harmony Central London, England 2010-11-11 A one-day conference from People in Harmony which will consider why mixed race young people are over-represented in the care system, how they fare in the system and beyond,…

  • Scholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review The New York Times 2010-08-23 Patricia Cohen For professors, publishing in elite journals is an unavoidable part of university life. The grueling process of subjecting work to the up-or-down judgment of credentialed scholarly peers has been a cornerstone of academic culture since at least the mid-20th century. Now…

  • Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian Testimony: In Search of the “Place” in Displacement The Global Viet Diaspora 2009 This documentary was produced/directed by Rojelio Vo, Long S. Le, and Aaron Hedge. The documentary is based on the lived-experience of a Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian, Khanh Le. “If the individual black self could not exist before the law, it could, and…

  • Experiences and Processes Affecting Racial Identity Development: Preliminary Results From the Biracial Sibling Project Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology (formerly Cultural Diversity and Mental Health) Volume 4, Number 3 (August 1998) pages 237-247 DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.4.3.237 Maria P. P. Root Examined what drives the process of racial identity development in general for persons of mixed…

  • Mixed Race/Mixed Space in Media Culture & Militarized Zones Thursday Afternoon Forum Series University of California, Berkeley 691 Barrows Hall 2010-10-07, 16:00 to 17:30 PDT (Local Time) A Critical Race Theory Approach to Understanding Cinematic Representations of the Mixed Race Experience Kevin Escudero, Ethnic Studies This presentation focuses on the developmental trajectory of the portrayal…

  • VIS409 Mixed Race Women’s Memoirs Antioch University Midwest Winter 2010 This course is designed as a multidisciplinary exploration of race, gender, and identity utilizing oral and written narratives of Black-white mixed race women from the mid-nineteenth century to the present as source material. Drawing from elements of cultural studies, African American studies, American studies, and…

  • White like who? The value of whiteness in British interracial families Ethnicities Volume 10, Number 3 (September 2010) pages 292-312 DOI: 10.1177/1468796810372306 France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara The value of whiteness is not fixed, rather it has contradictory and competing meanings among members of Black British interracial families. Drawing upon…