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  • A new paradigm of race: Visit to Brazil prompts the question: Can mixing everyone up solve the race problem? Bloomington Herald-Times 2004-08-29 Courtesy of: Black Film Center/Archive Indiana University Audrey T. McCluskey, Director Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Indiana University If Tiger Woods lived in Brazil he would not have had to coin the word “Cablanasian”…

  • Prejudice inspires filmmaker to discover Afro-German roots Indiana Daily Student Indiana University 2010-01-24 Abby Liebenthal, Staff Reporter “It all started with a public threat on my life.” Within the first few minutes of Mo Asumang’s documentary “Roots Germania,” students, faculty and Bloomington residents became part of a search for the director’s identity… …Asumang said the…

  • Coloring the Caribbean: Agostino Brunias and the Painting of Race in the British West Indies, 1765-1800 Mia L. Bagneris, Doctoral Candidate in the Department of African and African American Studies Harvard University This dissertation explores interracial themes in the work of Agostino Brunias, a little known but fascinating Italian artist who painted for British patrons…

  • Reconstruction, Segregation, and Miscegenation: Interracial Marriage and the Law in the Lower South, 1865-1900 American Nineteenth Century History Volume 6, Issue 1 March 2005 pages 57-76 DOI: 10.1080/14664650500121827 Peter Wallenstein, Professor of History Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University On the eve of Congressional Reconstruction, all seven states of the Lower South had laws against…

  • Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law: An American History Palgrave Macmillan 2002 336 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 16-page b/w photo insert ISBN: 978-1-4039-6408-3, ISBN10: 1-4039-6408-4 Peter Wallenstein, Professor of History Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University The first in-depth history of miscegenation law in the United States,…

  • Deciding on Doctrine: Anti-Miscegenation Statutes and the Development of Equal Protection Analysis Virginia Law Review Number 95, Issue 3 (May 2009) pages 627-665 Rebecca Schoff University of Virginia School of Law In 1967, the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States were in complete agreement that the statutory scheme before them in Loving…

  • Mapping Identity – Opening Lecture by Kwame Anthony Appiah Haverford University KINSC Sharpless Auditorium 2010-03-19 16:00 EDT (Local Time) Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy Princeton University Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery presents Mapping Identity, curated by Carol Solomon, Visiting Associate Professor, and Janet Yoon, HC ’10. The show will run…

  • Reconstructing Hybridity: Post-Colonial Studies in Transition Rodopi 2007 330 pages Hardback: 978-90-420-2141-9 / 90-420-2141-1 Edited by: Joel Kuortti, Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Culture University of Jyväskylä, Finland Jopi Nyman, Acting Professor of English University of Joensuu, Finland This interdisciplinary collection of critical articles seeks to reassess the concept of hybridity and its relevance to post-colonial…

  • Caught Between Cultures: Women, Writing & Subjectivities Rodopi 2002 152 pages Hardback: 978-90-420-1378-0 / 90-420-1378-8 Paperback: 978-90-420-1368-1 / 90-420-1368-0 Edited by: Elizabeth Russell, Professor of Womens Studies and British Literature University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona The essays in this collection (on Canada, the USA, Australia and the UK) question and discuss the issues of cross-cultural…

  • What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America (Review) Law and Politics Book Review American Political Science Association 2009-03-23 pp. 218-220 Mark Kessler, Chair of the Department of History & Government and Professor of Government Texas Woman’s Univeristy What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America. By Peggy…