Category: Articles

  • Professor’s Bookshelf: Amy Cynthia Tang The Wesleyan Argus Middletown, Connecticut 2012-04-19 Miriam Olenick, Staff Writer Assistant Professor Amy Cynthia Tang, of the American Studies and English departments, specializes in Asian-American and African-American literature—most recently, she has been reading satirical Asian-American plays. Professor Tang sat down with The Argus to discuss her favorite authors, her plans…

  • Multi-ethnic Koreans find help with assimilation through MACK Foundation The Korea Times 2012-04-25 A “typical Korean” probably wouldn’t call Yang Chan-wook a typical Korean, but he wants to be seen that way. The 37-year-old is a multi-ethnic Korean, part Korean from his mother’s side and part African-American from his father’s side. And he’s working towards…

  • Crimes of Passion: The Regulation of Interracial Sex in Washington, 1855-1950 Gonzaga Law Review Volume 47, Issue 2 (Symposium: Race and Criminal Justice in the West) April, 2012 pages 393-428 Jason A. Gillmer, Professor of Law Gonzaga University School of Law Race had not mattered to Harvey Creasman and Caroline Paul. The two had lived together as…

  • 2010 Census Shows Interracial and Interethnic Married Couples Grew by 28 Percent over Decade United States Census Bureau Newsroom 2012-04-25 The U.S. Census Bureau today released a 2010 Census brief, Households and Families: 2010, that showed interracial or interethnic opposite-sex married couple households grew by 28 percent over the decade from 7 percent in 2000…

  • “Nearly White” and Clinging to “Bits of Finery”: Jim Crow Logic, Brazil, and Evelyn Scott’s Escapade Women’s Studies: An inter-disciplinary journal Volume 41, Issue 4, 2012 Special Issue: Women and Travel DOI: 10.1080/00497878.2012.663249 Amy Schmidt, Supervisor of Supplemental Instruction Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas Evelyn Scott’s Escapade (1923) illustrates both the similarities and the differences between…

  • The Social Construction of Race and Monacan Education in Amherst County, Virginia, 1908–1965: Monacan Perspectives History of Education Quarterly Volume 47, Issue 4 (November 2007) pages 389–415 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-5959.2007.00107.x Melanie D. Haimes-Bartolf Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia That’s all you heard, everywhere we went, or whatever we done, “oh, he’s one of those issues.” We…

  • The headlines back in June, 2005, read “FDA approves a heart drug for African Americans”. The decision that gave the company NitroMed approval for its drug BiDil exclusively to a “racial group” represented a milestone in US drug policy. The decision ignited a debate that polarised the African American community, confounded proponents of personalised medicine,…

  • Obama as Anti-American: Visual Folklore in Right-Wing Forwarded E-mails and Construction of Conservative Social Identity Journal of American Folklore Volume 125, Number 496, Spring 2012 pages 177-203 DOI: 10.1353/jaf.2012.0018 Margaret Duffy, Associate Professor of Journalism University of Missouri Janis Teruggi Page George Washington University Rachel Young Missouri School of Journalism This paper investigates the group-building…

  • ‘Mutts like Me’: Multiracial Students’ Perceptions of Barack Obama Qualitative Sociology Volume 35, Number 2 (2012) pages 183-200 DOI: 10.1007/s11133-012-9226-4 Michael P. Jeffries, Assistant Professor of American Studies Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Existent sociological studies of multiracialism in the United States focus on identity construction, the cultural and legislative battle over multiracial categorization, and the…

  • Role of identity integration on the relationship between perceived racial discrimination and psychological adjustment of multiracial people Journal of Counseling Psychology Volume 59, Number 2 (April 2012) pages 240-250 Kelly F. Jackson, Assistant Professor of Social Work Arizona State University, Phoenix Hyung Chol (Brandon) Yoo, Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies Arizona State University,…