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  • “The performance was hands-down the best Choate performance I have ever seen. I’ve seen a lot of white struggle stories, and a lot of black struggle stories, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a mixed struggle story.” —Zemia Edmondson description of Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni’s one-woman performance, One Drop of Love. Alexandra Brunjes, “Getting Race-y in…

  • Getting Race-y in the PMAC The News: The official student newspaper of Choate Rosemary Hall Wallingford, Connecticut Saturday, 2014-01-25 Alexandra Brunjes ’16, News Staff Reporter “How does our belief in ‘race’ affect our most intimate relationships?” This is the question that Ms. Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni sought to answer during her one-woman performance, One Drop of…

  • Undoing Racial Identification and Redoing Ethical Cultivation: Passing as a Performance of Identity and an Ethics of Self-Making Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York Honors Thesis Fall 2013 42 pages Paige Meserve Submitted to the Department of Religion Paige Meserve uses contemporary affect theory and queer theory to explore how racial identities are performed (and taken…

  • The life story of a man who crossed the color line to fight for civil rights

  • Flight: A Novel Louisiana State University Press April 1998 (Originally published in 1926) 304 pages 5.50 x 8.50 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780807122808 Walter White (1893-1955) Published amid controversy in 1926, Flight focuses on the dilemma of Mimi Daquin, a light-complexioned African American woman who passes, for a time, as white. In the New Orleans of…

  • Motivation to Control Prejudice Predicts Categorization of Multiracials Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin Volume 40, Number 5 (May 2014) pages 590-603 DOI: 10.1177/0146167213520457 Jacqueline M. Chen, Post-doctoral Scholar University of California, Davis Wesley G. Moons, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of California, Davis Sarah E. Gaither Department of Psychology Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts David L.…

  • The Trouble with Transcendence: Is Defying the Gender Binary the New Racial Passing? Nursing Clio: Because the Personal is Historical 2014-01-21 Mallory Nicole Davis University of Oregon In 2010, Thomas Araguz III, a Texas firefighter died on the job, leaving behind his two children and transgender wife, Nikki.[1] The couple was legally married because although…

  • PHOTOS: 3rd Annual What Are You? Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Brooklyn Historical Society Fall 2013 Nayantara Sen, CBBG Project Associate All photos by Willie Davis for Brooklyn Historical Society, 2013 Steven Riley, Founder of MixedRaceStudies.org gives a few remarks before introducing one of the panels. A participant in the packed the house in Brooklyn Historical…

  • “We Have Created Our Own Meaning for Hapa Identity”: The Mobilization of Self-Proclaimed Hapas within Institutions of Higher Education Amerasia Journal Volume 35, Number 2 (2009) pages 191-213 Patricia E. Literte, Associate Professor of Sociology California State University, Fullerton This article examines Hapa student organizations on two university campuses—one public and one private. Drawing on…

  • Beyond “Code-switching:” The Racial Capital of Black/White Biracial Americans University of Connecticut 2013 170 pages Chandra D. L. Waring A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Social science has examined the experiences of the burgeoning bi/multiracial population within the scope of three core areas: racial identity…