Mixed Race Studies

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  • Tiger Woods: Black, white, other

    Tiger Woods: Black, white, other The Guardian 2010-05-29 Gary Younge, Feature Writer and Columnist Before he was engulfed in a sex scandal Tiger Woods was a poster boy for a multiracial America. Gary Younge on the real legacy of golf’s fallen hero On 13 April 1997 Tiger Woods putted his way to golfing history in…

  • 2010 Hurst Prize Winner: Peggy Pascoe, What Comes Naturally

    2010 Hurst Prize Winner: Peggy Pascoe, What Comes Naturally Legal History Blog 2010-06-03 Mary L. Dudziak, Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History and Political Science University of Southern California Peggy Pascoe, University of Oregon, Department of History, has won the Willard Hurst Prize for 2010 from the Law and Society…

  • Women-Loving Women: Queering Black Urban Space during the Harlem Renaissance

    Women-Loving Women: Queering Black Urban Space during the Harlem Renaissance Women’s Studies 197: Senior Seminar 2010-06-07 Professor Lilith Mahmud Samantha Tenorio The experience of black “women-loving-women” during the Harlem Renaissance is directly influenced by what Kimberlé Crenshaw terms intersectional identity, or their positioning in the social hierarchies of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation that…

  • Multiculturalism and Morphing in “I’m Not There” (Haynes, 2007)

    Multiculturalism and Morphing in “I’m Not There” (Haynes, 2007) Wide Screen Volume 2, Number 1, June 2010 15 pages ISSN: 1757-3920 Published by Subaltern Media Zélie Asava ‘Passing’ narratives question fixed social categorisations and prove the possibility of self-determination, which is why they are such a popular literary and cinematic trope. This article explores ‘passing’…

  • The Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the Color Line in Twenty-First Century America

    The Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the Color Line in Twenty-First Century America Russell Sage Foundation May 2010 240 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-87154-041-6 Jennifer Lee, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Frank D. Bean, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology and Economics; Director of the Center for Research on Immigration, Population, and Public Policy University of…

  • The Social Experience of Mixed Race [Book Review]

    The Social Experience of Mixed Race [Book Review] Jill Olumide. Raiding the Gene Pool: The Social Construction of Mixed Race. London: Pluto Press, 2002. xii + 212 pp., ISBN 978-0-7453-1764-9; ISBN 978-0-7453-1765-6. H-Net Online December 2002 Mohamed Adhikari, Lecturer of Historical Studies University of Cape Town, South Africa The author, a medical sociologist at the…

  • Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community

    “Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community” is the first systematic study of Coloured identity, its history, and its relevance to South African national life.

  • The Law: Anti-Miscegenation Statutes: Repugnant Indeed

    The Law: Anti-Miscegenation Statutes: Repugnant Indeed Time Magazine 1967-06-23 Judge Leon Bazile looked down at Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter Loving as they stood before him in 1959 in the Caroline County, Va. courtroom. “Almighty God,” he intoned, “created the races white, black, yellow, Malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. The…

  • The Transformation of U.S. Racial and Ethnic Identities in Global Media

    The Transformation of U.S. Racial and Ethnic Identities in Global Media Contact Spaces of American Culture: LOCALIZING GLOBAL PHENOMENA 36th International Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS) Department of American Studies, University of Graz 2009-10-22 through 2009-10-25 Shelleen Greene, Assistant Professor of Digital Studio Practice and Theory University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Through…

  • ART & DESIGN FACULTY – Shelleen Greene awarded IRE Faculty Diversity Research Award

    ART & DESIGN FACULTY – Shelleen Greene awarded IRE Faculty Diversity Research Award Peck School of The Arts News University of Wisconsin, Madison 2010-06-15 The award will allow Assistant Professor Shelleen Greene to complete her book project, Equivocal Subjects: Mixed-Race Identity in the Italian Cinema. The book examines the representation of mixed-race subjects of Italian…