Author: Steven

  • Blood Quantum – Why it Matters, and Why it Shouldn’t All Things Cherokee 2014-08-04 Christina Berry “You’re an Indian? What part?” That’s the universal question many mixed-blood American Indians are asked every day. How many times have you mentioned in passing that you are Cherokee to find your conversation interrupted by intrusive questions about percentage?…

  • A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life [Live event at the National Archives Museum] The National Archives Museum William G. McGowan Theater Corner of Constitution Avenue and 7th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 2015-02-27, 12:00 EST (Local Time) Airs on C-SPAN 2, Sunday, 2015-03-08, 19:00 EDT. For more information, click here. Between…

  • Roundtable: Global Mixed Race University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Political Science The Lane Room (Ellison 3824) Monday, 2015-03-02, 16:00 PST (Local Time) The authors of the new book Global Mixed Race (New York University Press) will participate in a Roundtable on the subject. The authors are: G. Reginald Daniel, UCSB Sociology Adrienne Edgar,…

  • Beyond The Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production by Crystal S. Anderson (review) Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 18, Number 1, February 2015 pages 107-109 DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2015.0003 Edlie Wong, Associate Professor of English University of Maryland Anderson, Crystal S., Beyond The Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013). Afro-Asian…

  • Zoe: That — that is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. Of the blood that feeds my heart, one drop in eight is black — bright red as the rest may be, that one drop poisons all the flood; those seven bright drops give me love like yours — hope like yours — ambition like yours…

  • At a time when the mere sight of Petula Clark touching Harry Belafonte’s arm held the potential to upset delicate sensibilities, the half-human, half-Vulcan character Mr. Spock embodied an identity rarely acknowledged, much less seen, on television: a mixed-race person.

  • Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band 2015 Conference Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band Moore, Oklahoma 2015-02-17 Rhonda Kay Grayson For Immediate Release Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band P.O. Box 6366 Moore, OK, 73135 The Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band is thrilled to announce its 2015 conference. The conference theme is “Africans and Indians: Eating from the same…

  • “It is largely through the on-screen body of the mixed-race female that racial laws have been written and mixed-race issues have been explored.  The mixed female figure was (unofficially) accepted as a body onto which white men could project and enact their sexual fantasies.  Hence the popularity of mixed girls in chorus lines at all-white…

  • Review: ‘An Octoroon,’ a Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Comedy About Race The New York Times 2015-02-26 Ben Brantley, Chief Theater Critic Walking on a stage covered with cotton balls is a tricky business. It’s all too easy to slip into a pratfall. And forget about running or dancing or hopping like a bunny, as the characters sometimes…

  • The Joshua Generation The New Yorker 2008-11-17 David Remnick, Editor Race and the campaign of Barack Obama. Barack Obama could not run his campaign for the Presidency based on political accomplishment or on the heroic service of his youth. His record was too slight. His Democratic and Republican opponents were right: he ran largely on…