Category: Articles

  • Stonequist’s Concept of “The Marginal Man” in Langston Hughes’ Play Mulatto International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature ISSN 2200-3592 (Print), ISSN 2200-3452 (Online) Volume 1, Number 4 (September 2012) pages 125-130 Farshid Nowrouzi Roshnavand University of Tehran, Iran Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh, Assistant Professor of Letters and Humanities Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran Born…

  • Race and a Political Race Everyday Sociology Blog 2012-09-28 Jonathan R. Wynn, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Dwanna L. Robertson University of Massachusetts, Amherst The Massachusetts Senate race between incumbent Scott Brown and Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren took an unexpected sharp turn this week. Shades of racialized language (reminiscent of the…

  • Of Susie Guillory Phipps and Chief Redbone: The Mutability of Race Newhouse News Service 1992-07-09 Jonathan Tilove Black is black and white is white, but what about Susie Guillory Phipps? Phipps looks white. She always thought she was white. So did her first and second husbands. Until, at the age of 43, she discovered she…

  • Consider this paragraph from a New York Times article about the increase in multiracial people in the latest 2010 U.S. Census: “In North Carolina, the mixed-race population doubled. In Georgia, it expanded by more than 80 percent, and by nearly as much in Kentucky and Tennessee. In Indiana, Iowa and South Dakota, the multiracial population…

  • 2010 Census Shows Multiple-Race Population Grew Faster Than Single-Race Population United States Census Bureau New Releases News Release: CB12-182 2012-09-27 The 2010 Census showed that people who reported multiple races grew by a larger percentage than those reporting a single race. According to the 2010 Census brief The Two or More Races Population: 2010, the…

  • Mixed-race Jewish children locate their communal comfort zone The Jewish Chronicle Online 2009-11-12 Sue Fishkoff Dafna Wu, a 48-year-old San Francisco nurse, was born to a Jewish mother and Chinese father. She was raised Jewish but looks Asian, as does her daughter, nine-year-old Amalia, whose father was also Chinese. The Hebrew School Amalia attends is…

  • Jewish multiracial families grow in numbers and commitment The Denver Post Denver, Colorado 2012-09-25 Electa Draper Three Denver mothers heading multiracial families are seeking to build on what it means to live in Jewish community. The community is changing. It’s perhaps a surprising slice of demography that shows that 16 percent of metro Denver Jewish…

  • Poetry: Three Treasures by Hannah Lowe Freeword: a global meeting place for literature, argument and free thinking 2012-06-12 Hannah Lowe A panelist at ‘2 Nations’, our recent event exploring national identity, Hannah Lowe is a poet of Chinese, Jamaican and English heritage. In this poem she performed for the audience that night, she explores how…

  • The colour of money in multiracial Jamaica The Jamaica Gleaner Jamaica, West Indies 2012-09-23 Carolyn Cooper, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica On a flight from Miami several years ago, I sat next to a little girl who seemed to be about 10 or so years of age.…

  • Prestigious grant award for research on President Obama Edge Hill University Ormskirk, Lancashire, United Kingdom News 2010-06-04 Edge Hill University and key partners have been awarded a prestigious grant to develop a research network on The Presidency of Barack Obama. The Arts and Humanities Research Council has given an award of £31,320 to the institution…