Category: Articles

  • Loving v. Virginia in Historical Context Crossing Borders, Bridging Generatons Brooklyn Historical Society June 2014 Renee Romano, Associate Professor of History Oberlin College Renee Romano teaches history at Oberlin College and she is the author of Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America (Harvard University Press, 2003), and co-editor of The Civil Rights Movement in…

  • No ‘rainbow families’: Ethnic donor stipulation at fertility centre ‘floors’ local woman Calgary Herald Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2014-07-25 Jessica Barrett A Calgary woman says she was shocked to learn of a policy at the city’s only fertility treatment centre that restricts patients from using sperm, eggs or embryos from donors who do not match their…

  • I’m Not White, But Nobody Can Ever Tell What Race I Am xoJane.com 2014-07-25 Casey Walker Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts I have to go through a “coming out” moment in every new relationship to explain my ethnicity. My skin is pale olive in the winter and a soft brown in the summer, and my hair…

  • Race & Its Categories in Historical Perspective Crossing Borders, Bridging Generatons Brooklyn Historical Society June 2014 Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University A native New Yorker, Ann Morning is an associate professor of sociology at New York University and the author of The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about…

  • I get it. Being mixed race in a mono-racial society is tough. There still isn’t much room for multiplicity in our society. From race categories on forms, to Barack Obama being called the first “Black” president even as he was raised by his white grandparents, to people asking a mixed race person “what are you?”…

  • At last, a home for black history The Guardian 2014-07-23 Paul Reid, Director Black Cultural Archives The launch of the Black Cultural Archives will show that our presence in the UK is measured in millennia, not decades I remember the time I got caned at school. It was the 1970s, and during a history lesson…

  • Study: Interracial marriages involving Asian-Americans still can leave racial barriers University of Kansas News Lawrence, Kansas 2014-07-15 George Diepenbrock, Contact KU News Service LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas researcher says the high rate of interracial marriages among Asian-Americans should not simply be interpreted as a litmus test of assimilation for the minority group. Second-generation…

  • Positioning of the Mixed Race Author and Mixed Race Protagonist in British Children’s Literature Critical Pedagogies: Equality and Diversity in a Changing Institution 2014-07-23 Ludovic Foster, Ph.D. Candidate Department Gender Studies University of Sussex, United Kingdom I would like to examine a few of the issues around the positioning of the mixed race child, and…

  • The sweetness of forbidden fruit: Interracial daters are more attractive than intraracial daters Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Published online: 2014-07-09 DOI: 10.1177/0265407514541074 Karen Wu Department of Psychology and Social Behavior University of California, Irvine Chuansheng Chen, Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior and Education University of California, Irvine Ellen Greenberger, Research Professor and…