Category: Articles

  • Poet’s Muse: A Footnote to Beethoven The New York Times 2009-04-02 Felicia R. Lee Haydn almost certainly encountered him as a child in a Hungarian castle, where the boy’s father was a servant and Haydn was the director of music, and Thomas Jefferson saw him performing in Paris in 1789: a 9-year-old biracial violin prodigy…

  • The post-racial illusion: racial politics and inequality in the age of Obama Revue de Recherche en Civilisation Américaine Number 3 (March 2012): Post-racial America? Olivier Richomme l’université de Lyon II-Lumière Contents 1. The 2008 election as an exception a-The circumstances b-A post-racial election? 2. The state of the racial divide a-Economic well-being b-Health c-Housing d-Education…

  • Are You Sensitive to Interracial Children’s Special Identity Needs? Young Children Volume 42, Number 2 (January 1987) pages 53-59 Francis Wardle Red Rocks Community College, Colorado Early childhood educators continually adjust to families they serve. Educators must provide for children not living with their natural parents, children from abusive families, children who rarely see their…

  • The Time of the Multiracial American Literary History Volume 27, Number 3, Fall 2015 pages 549-556 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajv026 Habiba Ibrahim, Associate Professor of English University of Washington, Seattle Habiba Ibrahim is the author of  Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism (2012). Her current book project, Oceanic Lifespans, examines how…

  • Chineke! Europe’s first professional orchestra of black and minority ethnic musicians launches The Independent 2015-09-02 Jessica Duchen Its founder double-bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku talks to Jessica Duchen When the Chineke! Orchestra steps on to the Queen Elizabeth Hall platform on 13 September, the audience should notice something unusual. One of those uncomfortable truths about classical music…

  • Barack Obama and the Third Wave: the syntaxes of whiteness and articulating difference in the post-identity era Politics, Groups, and Identities Volume 2, Issue 4, 2014 pages 573-588 DOI: 10.1080/21565503.2014.969739 Melanye T. Price, Assistant Professor Africana Studies and Political Science Departments Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Emerging critiques of Third Wave Feminism and…

  • Four-country newspaper framing of Barack Obama’s multiracial identity in the 2008 US presidential election Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies Volume 35, Issue 3, 2014 pages 23-38 DOI: 10.1080/02560054.2014.955867 Kioko Ireri, Assistant Professor of Journalism & Mass Communication United States International University-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya Though Barack Obama was the first African American presidential nominee for a…

  • Redefining Racial Categories: The Dynamics of Identity Among Brazilian-Americans Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora Volume 33, Issue 1, 2015 pages 45-65 DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2014.909732 Catarina Fritz Department of Sociology and Corrections Minnesota State University, Mankato Research based on a sample of Brazilian youth living in Massachusetts reveals a variety of responses…

  • Adolescent Racial Identity: Self-Identification of Multiple and “Other” Race/Ethnicities Urban Education Published online before print: 2015-03-18 DOI: 10.1177/0042085915574527 Bryn Harris, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Colorado, Denver Russell D. Ravert, Associate Professor Department of Human Development & Family Studies University of Missouri, Columbia Amanda L. Sullivan, Associate Professor of Psychology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis…

  • Locating queer-mixed experiences: Narratives of geography and migration Qualitative Social Work Volume 14, Number 5 (September 2015) pages 651-669 DOI: 10.1177/1473325014561250 Kimberly D. Hudson School of Social Work University of Washington Gita R. Mehrotra, Assistant Professor of Social Work Portland State University, Portland, Oregon Social work scholarship concerned with mixed-race and queer identities is growing…