Author: Steven

  • The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction Oxford University Press October 2009 216 pages Hardback ISBN13: 9780195377361; ISBN10: 0195377362 Caroline Rody, Associate Professor of English University of Virginia In the wake of all that is changing in local and global cultures–in patterns of migration, settlement, labor, and communications–a radical interaction has…

  • How the courts dealt with wills bequeathing property or freedom to mixed race children.

  • Understanding the Epistemology of Ethnic Identity Development in Multiethnic College Students Journal of College Student Development Volume 49, Number 5, September/October 2008 pages 443-458 E-ISSN: 1543-3382 Print ISSN: 0897-5264 DOI: 10.1353/csd.0.0028 Prema Chaudhari University of Pittsburgh Jane Elizabeth Pizzolato, Assistant Professor Department of Education University of California, Los Angeles We examined the nuances of multiethnic…

  • Feeling Ancestral: The Emotions of Mixed Race and Memory in Asian American Cultural Productions positions: east asia cultures critique Volume 16, Number 2, Fall 2008 pages 457-482 Jeffrey Santa Ana, Assistant Professor English Department Stony Brook University The current era of war, militarism, and neocolonialism in the Pacific is a time in which capitalist expansion simultaneously…

  • Second Glances: Two African-American Women Take a Closer Look at their Jewish Identities Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal Volume 13, Number 2 (Autumn 2008) pages 52-63 Amy André Nzinga Koné-Miller This conversation is co-written by two African American women, one who converted to Judaism and one who was born Jewish. They dialogue about the differences…

  • From: KNPR in Nevada: A Conversation About Race and Ethnicity in America  (2008-08-22) We continue our conversation about race and ethnicity in America when we host a joint broadcast [on 2008-08-22] with KCEP-FM.  KCEP’s Patricia Cunningham joins us with UNLV [University of Nevada at Las Vegas] Professor Rainier Spencer and Pastor Robert Fowler of The Victory Missionary Baptist…

  • “If, however, one is critical of race, it then becomes apparent that there is an inherent contradiction in the idea of multiraciality; for if race is a myth, then multirace must of necessity be a myth as well.  Yet how is one to self-identify, to assert an identity, when the only language seeming available is…

  • “Who Am I? Mental Health & Dual Heritage” Conference Report At GMCVO, ST. THOMAS CENTRE Ardwick Green North, Manchester, M12 6FZ This event was held on 2009-06-10, from 08:00Z to 13:00Z Programme: 08:00Z Registration 08:30Z Mixed Heritage Identities; the issues and challenges Bradley Lincoln Multiple Heritage Project Manchester 09:00Z Women; mixed heritage and mental health Lindsey…

  • A ‘Marginal Man’ is a fictional archetype created in 1927 by sociologist Robert Ezra Park (1864-1944) (and further developed by Everett Stonequist (1901-1979)) as a way  to describe a person descended from two “opposing” ethnic or racial groups.  He stated, “The marginal man…is one whom fate has condemned to live in two societies and in two, not…

  • From Wikipedia: The Tragic mulatto is a stereotypical fictional character that appeared in American literature during the 19th and 20th centuries. The “tragic mulatto” is an archetypical mixed race person (a “mulatto”), who is assumed to be sad or even suicidal because he/she fails to completely fit in the “white world” or the “black world”. As…