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  • Is Obama Now Black (Enough) Because He’s White?

    Is Obama Now Black (Enough) Because He’s White? The Huffington Post 2012-08-02 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University With the November election less than 100 days away, the Obama campaign continues to come up against questions about the president’s racial identity. Most recently, reports that the president is “passing,” or claiming that he’s representing…

  • Is Being Biracial an Advantage for Obama?

    Is Being Biracial an Advantage for Obama? ABC News 2008-03-21 Emily Friedman The son of a black man and a white woman, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., says he’s seen and heard it all.   From his grandmother’s fear of black men on the street to his former pastor’s perceived anti-American rants, Obama said Tuesday that…

  • Mixed Messenger

    Mixed Messenger The New York Times 2008-03-23 Peggy Orenstein A few weeks ago, while stuck at the Chicago airport with my 4-year-old daughter, I struck up a conversation with a woman sitting in the gate area. After a time, she looked at my girl — who resembles my Japanese-American husband — commented on her height…

  • Mississippi Black Code (1865)

    Mississippi Black Code (1865) America’s Reconstruction: People and Politics After The Civil War Digital History: using new technologies to enhance teaching and research 2011 The Civil Rights of Freedmen in Mississippi (Approved November 25, 1865) Section 1. Be it enacted by the legislature of the State of Mississippi, That all freedmen, free Negroes, and mulattoes…

  • Dawn of the Different: The Mulatto Zombie in Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead

    Dawn of the Different: The Mulatto Zombie in Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead The Journal of Popular Culture Volume 45, Issue 3 (June 2012) pages 551–571 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2012.00944.x Justin Ponder WHILE ZOMBIE FILMS DO NOT BLATANTLY FOCUS ON miscegenation or mulattos, interracial themes abound in them. In George A. Romero’s Night of the Living…

  • Unsuitable Suitors: Anti-Miscegenation Laws, Naturalization Laws, and the Construction of Asian Identities

    Unsuitable Suitors: Anti-Miscegenation Laws, Naturalization Laws, and the Construction of Asian Identities Law & Society Review Volume 41, Issue 3 (September 2007) pages 587–618 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5893.2007.00315.x Deenesh Sohoni, Associate Professor of Sociology The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia In this article, I use state-level anti-miscegenation legislation to examine how Asian ethnic groups became…

  • Will new age of mixed-race identities loosen the hold of race or tie it up in tighter knots?

    Ward Connerly, who describes himself as a roughly equal mix of French Canadian, Choctaw, African and Irish ancestry and who is married to a white woman, spent much of the last decade campaigning to end race-based affirmative action. Susan Graham, a white woman married to a black man, has spent that same decade working tirelessly…

  • Obama is a Descendant of Nefertiti & Confucius Too

    Obama is a Descendant of Nefertiti & Confucius Too Dominion of New York 2012-07-31 Alondra Nelson, Associate Professor of Sociology Columbia University There was breaking news yesterday in the lively world of presidential genealogy. Barack Obama–who is regarded as an inauthentic African-American by some because his late mother, Stanley Anne Dunham, was a white woman…

  • Three Black Scholars Honored With Prestigious Awards

    Three Black Scholars Honored With Prestigious Awards The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 2012-07-26 …G. Reginald Daniel, a professor of sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, received the 2012 Loving Prize from the Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival in Los Angeles. Established in 2008, the prize is given to artists,…

  • “Not Half But Double”: Exploring Critical Incidents in the Racial Identity of Multiracial College Students

    “Not Half But Double”: Exploring Critical Incidents in the Racial Identity of Multiracial College Students Journal of College Student Development Volume 53, Number 4, July/August 2012 pages 524-541 DOI: 10.1353/csd.2012.0054 Angela H. Kellogg, Director of Academic Advising and Career Services University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point Debora L. Liddell, Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of the…