Author: Steven

  • This book explodes the myth of a single authentic Judaism and shines a bright light on the thousands of ethnically and racially diverse Jews in the United States who live full and rich Jewish lives. It is impossible to read “In Every Tongue” without coming away with a deeper respect for and a broader understanding…

  • Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House Paradigm Publishers February 2011 288 pages 6″ x 9″ Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-59451-833-1 EBook ISBN: 978-1-61205-000-3 Kenneth T. Walsh This book examines the intertwined relationships between the presidents and the African Americans who have been an integral part of the White House since the beginning…

  • Census Bureau Names Eric Hamako to National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations United States Census Bureau News Release CB12-R.33 2012-10-12 The U.S. Census Bureau announced today the establishment of the National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations and has named Eric Hamako as a member of the committee.   The…

  • Hall of Fame Has Always Made Room for Infamy The New York Times 2013-01-08 Bill Pennington The Baseball Hall of Fame, the most august fraternity of its kind in American sports, unveils its latest induction class Wednesday. For the first time this year, balloters must weigh the fate of two eminent stars, Barry Bonds and…

  • Tragic No More: Mixed Race Women and the Nexus of Sex and Celebrity University of Massachusetts Press December 2012 176 pages 6 x9; 6 illustrations ISBN (paper): 978-1-55849-985-0 ISBN (cloth): 978-1-55849-984-3 Caroline A. Streeter, Associate Professor of English University of California, Los Angeles A timely exploration of gender and mixed race in American culture This…

  • Being Mixed and Black: The Socialization of Mixed-Race Identity University of Chicago 2012-12-13 92 pages Brett R. Coleman Submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Chicago, 2012 This study examined the relationship between parental racial-ethnic socialization…

  • Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies: Call For Papers – March 1, 2013   “What is Critical Mixed Race Studies?”   Papers that were presented at the November 1-4, 2012 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference “What is Critical Mixed Race Studies?” are invited for revision and submission for the second issue of JCMRS. We also…

  • “What Are You?”: Racial Ambiguity and the Social Construction of Race in the U.S. University of North Texas May 2012 165 pages Starita Smith Dissertation Prepared for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY This dissertation is a qualitative study of racially ambiguous people and their life experiences. Racially ambiguous people are individuals who are frequently…

  • A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic (review) Civil War History Volume 52, Number 2, June 2006 pages 180-182 DOI: 10.1353/cwh.2006.0034 Michael A. Morrison, Associate Professor of History Purdue University A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic. By Bruce Dain. (Cambridge: Harvard University…

  • A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic Harvard University Press February 2003 334 pages 6 x 9-15/16 inches Hardcove ISBN: 9780674009462 Bruce Dain, Associate Professor of History University of Utah The intellectual history of race, one of the most pernicious and enduring ideas in American history, has remained segregated…