Category: Articles

  • Classifying racial and ethnic group data in the United States: the politics of negotiation and accommodation Journal of Government Information Volume 27, Issue 2 (March-April 2000) pages 129–156 DOI: 10.1016/S1352-0237(00)00131-3 Alice Robbin, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science Indiana University, Bloomington “Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity,” formerly…

  • Poet Pauline Johnson enthralled Victorian theatregoers with a stereotype-smashing spin on her Mohawk-English heritage. Along the way, she became Canada’s first postmodern celebrity

  • Britain’s first black community in Elizabethan London BBC News Magazine 2012-07-19 Michael Wood The black trumpeter John Blanke played regularly at the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII The reign of Elizabeth I saw the beginning of Britain’s first black community. It’s a fascinating story for modern Britons, writes historian Michael Wood. Walk out…

  • The Sexualization of Difference: A Comparison of Mixed-Race and Same-Gender Marriage Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review Volume 37, Number 2, Summer 2002 pages 255-288 Josephine Ross, Associate Professor of Law; Supervisor, Criminal Justice Clinic Howard University, Washington, D.C. I. Introduction: Mixed-Race Love as a Sexual Orientation The past prohibition of mixed-race marriages in many…

  • Special Issue: Mixed Heritage Asian American Literature Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies Volume 3 (2012): Special Issue: Mixed Heritage Asian American Literature Table of Contents Introduction to Volume III—Wei Ming Dariotis The AALDP Interview Smoke and Flowers: An Interview with Olivia Boler—Wei Ming Dariotis Articles American Orientalism and Cosmopolitan Mixed Race: Early Asian American…

  • A diverged family converges at Harvard Law Havard Law School News 2012-10-10 Audrey Kunycky A chance encounter, a discovery of kin on opposite sides of the world It wasn’t inevitable that Harvard Law School graduate students Erum Khalid Sattar and Rebecca Zaman would meet so soon, or even at all. Sattar has been at the…

  • Don’t Be Too Black, Mr. President: The Racial Effect of President Obama’s Performance in the 2012 Presidential Debates Darron Smith 2012-10-05 Darron T. Smith, Assistant Professor, Physician Assistant Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas What does it mean to be Black in America? Many Americans caught a glimpse of it on national television during the first…

  • The Elizabeth Warren Situation Is More Complicated Than Many Think Indian Country Today Media Network 2012-10-10 Laura Waterman Wittstock Seneca Nation A ton of ink has been spilled on the subject of the Elizabeth Warren run for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. Most of the writing on the Indian side of opinion is whether or…

  • Local Filmmaker to Give Voice to Biracial Issues News Release Nashville, Tennessee 2012-10-10 Jefferey Martin 615-918-8688 James Southard, Director/Producer Native Nashville, [Tennessee]  filmmaker, James Southard aims to tackle the subject of what it means to be biracial in his forth-coming documentary, “Half-Caste.” The documentary comes from a mixture of personal experience with being biracial, a…

  • Jazz, Race Collide With War In 1930s Europe Tell Me More National Public Radio 2012-03-26 Jacki Lyden, Host The novel Half Blood Blues explores an often overlooked slice of history: black jazz musicians in Germany on the eve of World War II. The book moves from 1992 to 1939, from Baltimore to Berlin to Paris.…