Category: Articles

  • Passing Strange The New York Times 2007-10-21 Joyce Johnson In 1855, Henry Broyard, a young white New Orleans carpenter, decided to pass as black in order to be legally entitled to marry Marie Pauline Bonée, the well-educated daughter of colored refugees from Haiti, who was about to have his child; their marriage license describes them…

  • What Comes Naturally: A Racially Inclusive Look at Miscegenation Law Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 31, Number 3, 2010 pages 15-21 DOI: 10.1353/fro.2010.0020 Jacki Thompson Rand, Professor of History; American Indian and Native Studies University of Iowa In What Comes Naturally Peggy Pascoe interrogates the U.S. racial regime through a study of civil…

  • Dr. Eliot Favors Racial Dead Line The New York Times 1909-03-15 page 3 Declares the South’s Future Depends On the Whites Preserving Their Integrity MISQUOTED IN INTERVIEW Did Not Say That Irish and Italians Furnished Race Problem for North Like Negroes In South ATLANTA, Ga., March 14.—Sharply denying that he had been taken to task…

  • Red, White, and Black: A Personal Essay on Interracial Marriage Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 29, Numbers 2 & 3, 2008 pages 51-58 DOI: 10.1353/fro.0.0021 Jacki Thompson Rand, Professor of History; American Indian and Native Studies University of Iowa About a month before my father died, a long-held question spilled out of my…

  • When an “Educated” Black Man Becomes Lighter in the Mind’s Eye SAGE Open 2014-01-14 9 pages DOI: 10.1177/2158244013516770 Avi Ben-Zeev, Professor of Cognitive Psychology San Francisco State University Tara C. Dennehy University of Massachusetts, Amherst Robin I. Goodrich University of California, Davis Branden S. Kolarik University of California, Davis Mark W. Geisler, Professor of Physiological…

  • 2 Hapa Parents and 19 Hapa artists: Our Visit to War Baby / Love Child at the Wing Luke Multiracial Asian Families: Parenting around race, ethnicity and what it means to be mixed Asian Sunday, 2014-01-12 Sharon H Chang Cold, rain. Gray-stained morning. Husband and I are sitting in the car at 5 till, draining…

  • A Tie That Binds Across Cultures The New York Times 2014-01-10 Booming’s “Making It Last” column profiles baby boomer couples who have been together 25 years or more. Bob and Chiyoko Bermant met in 1973 as graduate students at the University of Kansas. Bob was majoring in psychology, and Chiyoko, who is Japanese, was studying…

  • Gov’t to overhaul services for multicultural families Yonhap News Agency Seoul, South Korea 2014-01-15 Shim Sun-ah SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Yonhap) — The government plans to streamline its support system for multicultural families to help them integrate into society, officials said Wednesday. The move comes as some existing services, including Korean-language education, have been redundant or…

  • Rite Of “Passing” CBS News 2007-10-28 Russ Mitchell For 23 years Bliss Broyard was white, living in tony Greenwich, Conn., isolated from people of color and influenced by the racial attitudes of her surroundings, reports CBS News’ Russ Mitchell. Asked if she used to tell black jokes, Broyard said: “I did, in high school and…

  • Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist by G. Reginald Daniel (review) Hispanic Review Volume 82, Number 1, Winter 2014 pages 116-119 DOI: 10.1353/hir.2014.0008 Mércia Santana Flannery, Lecturer of Portuguese Romance Languages Department University of Pennsylvania G. Reginald Daniel, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist, 336 pages, hardcover ISBN: 978-0-271-05246-5.…