Category: Articles

  • Passing for white and straight: How my looks hide my identity Salon 2013-12-08 Koa Beck Brooklyn, New York I’m neither straight nor white, but I’m frequently mistaken for both — and it’s taught me a lot about privilege I first became aware of my passing as a young child confronted with standardized testing. My second…

  • Prince George’s Political Duo, Jolene and Glenn Ivey Focus on Family AFRO Prince George’s County News 2013-10-16 Zenitha Prince, Special to the AFRO He’s a former two-term state’s attorney for Prince George’s County who is now a partner in the prestigious K Street law firm of Leftwich & Ludaway. She’s the chairman of the Prince…

  • In Japan, Will Hafu Ever Be Considered Whole? The Diplomat Tokyo, Japan 2013-10-03 J.T. Quigley, Assistant Editor Mixed-race individuals and their families seek acceptance in a homogeneous Japan. “Spain! Spain!” the boys shouted at her and her brother, day in and day out at a summer camp in Chiba prefecture. The incessant chanting eventually turned…

  • Ivey describes herself as ‘Trayvon Martin’s mom’ The Baltimore Sun 2013-10-14 Erin Cox (Lloyd Fox / Baltimore Sun) Gansler’s running mate is first African-American woman to seek lieutenant governor post After Del. Jolene Ivey told a Baltimore crowd she hopes to be Maryland’s first African-American female lieutenant governor, she discussed what it means to be…

  • The symbolics of blood: Mestizaje in the Americas Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Volume 3, Issue 4, 1997 (Special Issue: Race and Place) pages 495-521 DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1997.9962576 Carol A. Smith, Professor Emerita of Anthropology University of California, Davis Mestizaje, a significant process of identity formation in Latin America based on presumed race mixture,…

  • American Sons & Daughters: Mixed Race, Identity in Southern California KCET Television Burbank, California 2013-12-04 Susan Straight, Professor of Creative Writing University of California, Riverside This is how we began. I looked out at the 300 faces before me and said, “How many of you in this classroom are often asked, in a bar or…

  • Uncovering records that link the slaveholder and enslaved Examiner.com 2013-12-02 Robin Foster In “Untangling the slaveholder and enslaved relationships,” several questions were raised about a possible link between Anderson Chick and Pettus Chick after it was discovered that Anderson and his mother, Eliza, lived next door to the Chick family for decades. If you are…

  • Jessie Fauset’s Plum Bun and the City’s Transformative Potential Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers Volume 30, Number 2, 2013 pages 265-286 DOI: 10.1353/leg.2013.0031 Catherine Rottenberg, Assistant Professor Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics and the Gender Studies Program Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel We are mainly indebted to writers of fiction for our more…

  • Trope Theory, Cane, and the Metaphysical Case for Genre Genre Volume 46, Number 3 (Fall 2013) pages 239-263 DOI: 10.1215/00166928-2345605 Katie Owens-Murphy Department of English University of Minnesota, Duluth Although we rely regularly on genre as a conceptual apparatus for our scholarship and course offerings, genre studies as a theory and methodology has never quite…

  • Patterns of self-harm and attempted suicide among white and black/mixed race female prisoners Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health Volume 13, Issue 4 (November 2003) pages 229–240 DOI: 10.1002/cbm.549 Jo Borrill Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine University of London Rachel Burnett Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial…