Category: Articles

  • MFA Thesis Choreographies Davis Life Magazine Davis, California 2013-02-28 UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance is proud to present MFA Thesis Choreographies: “Ligilo” by Jarrell Iu-Hui Chua, in collaboration with Bobby August Jr., travels through the worlds of memories, dreams and present realities to investigate touch and its effects on relationships; “Transmutation” by Christine…

  • MMXLII Viewpoint: What Are You? MMXLII: the power of diversity 2013-03-01 Joel Wacks Our guest correspondent Joel Wacks is back with another intriguing article as he takes time to reflect on his personal life. As a person of mixed race there is a common question he seems to always be asked, and for one reason…

  • Bengali Harlem: Author documents a lost history of immigration in America In America: You define America. What defines you? Cable News Network (CNN) 2013-02-15 Editor’s note: CNN’s Moni Basu, a Bengali immigrant, was born in Kolkata, India. Moni Basu (CNN) – In the next few weeks, Fatima Shaik, an African-American, Christian woman, will travel “home”…

  • Spaniards, ‘pardos’, and the missing mestizos: identities and racial categories in the early Hispanic Caribbean New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids Volume 71, Numbers 1&2 (1997) pages 5-19 Stuart B. Schwartz, George Burton Adams Professor of History Yale University Traces the history of the mestizos, the descendants of Spanish-Indian contacts during the early…

  • Anti-Miscegenation Laws in the United States Duke Bar Journal (Duke Law Journal) Volume 1, Issue 1 (1951) pages 26-41 James R. Browning (1918-2012) The word “miscegenation” is not included in the everyday vocabulary of a large part of our citizenry, but there are nonetheless laws in twenty-nine states prohibiting miscegenation. Etymologically, the term means intermarriage…

  • ‘Brown Babies:’ Post-war Germany’s Mixed-race Children The Washington Informer Washington, D.C. 2012-02-27 Barrington M. Salmon For much of his adult life, Daniel Cardwell has been immersed in a search for his identity and his past. He told an audience at Bowie State University recently that he remembers a childhood where he was never hugged or…

  • Mixed-race youth feel less cohesion with mothers, but greater independence University of Michigan News Service 2013-02-26 Contact: Jared Wadley ANN ARBOR—Multiethnic and mixed-race youth feel less satisfied with their moms—but more independent—compared to other youth, according to a new University of Michigan study. U-M researcher Elma Lorenzo-Blanco and colleagues compared parenting and family-related experiences between…

  • Parenting, Family Processes, Relationships, and Parental Support in Multiracial and Multiethnic Families: An Exploratory Study of Youth Perceptions Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies Volume 62, Issue 1 (February 2013) (Special Issue on Multiethnic Families) pages 125–139 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2012.00751.x Elma I. Lorenzo-Blanco Departments of Psychology and Women’s Studies University of Michigan, Ann Arbor…

  • The Origins and Authors of the Code Noir Louisiana Law Review Volume 56, Number 2 (Winter 1996) pages 363-407 Vernon Valentine Palmer, Thomas Pickles Professor of Law Tulane University, New Orleans I. Introduction The Code Noir marked France’s historic rendezvous with slavery in the Americas. It was one of the most important codes in the…

  • Enlightenment Poetry Daily 2012-10-09 From Thrall by Natasha Trethewey, Poet Laureate of the United States In the portrait of Jefferson that hangs      at Monticello, he is rendered two-toned: his forehead white with illumination— a lit bulb—the rest of his face in shadow,      darkened as if the artist meant to contrast his bright knowledge,…