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  • White Latinos

    White Latinos Harvard Latino Law Review Volume 6, Number 1 (Spring 2003) 8 pages Ian Haney Lopez, John H. Boalt Professor of Law University of California, Berkeley Who are the leaders in Latino communities? This question does not admit simple answers, for who counts as a leader and what Latino identity entails are both contentious…

  • For A Century, The First Underground Railroad Ran Slaves South To Florida (PHOTOS)

    For A Century, The First Underground Railroad Ran Slaves South To Florida (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post 2012-03-18 Bruce Smith, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century…

  • Blacks, Black Indians, Afromexicans: the Dynamics of Race, Nation, and Identity in a Mexican Moreno Community (Guerrero)

    Blacks, Black Indians, Afromexicans: the Dynamics of Race, Nation, and Identity in a Mexican Moreno Community (Guerrero) American Ethnologist Volume 27, Issue 4, November 2000 pages 898–626 DOI: 10.1525/ae.2000.27.4.898 Laura A. Lewis, Professor of Anthropology James Madison University In this article, I explore identity formation in Mexico from the perspective of residents of San Nicolás…

  • Caroline Bond Day (1889–1948): A Black Woman Outsider Within Physical Anthropology

    Caroline Bond Day (1889–1948): A Black Woman Outsider Within Physical Anthropology Transforming Anthropology Volume 20, Issue 1, April 2012 pages 79–89 DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-7466.2011.01145.x Anastasia C. Curwood, Visiting Fellow James Weldon Johnson Institute for Race and Difference Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia This article examines the significance of Caroline Bond Day’s vindicationist anthropological work on mixed-race families…

  • Using the Mixed-Race Category to Expose the Persistence of Anti-Black Racism: A Response to Thomas Chatterton Williams

    Using the Mixed-Race Category to Expose the Persistence of Anti-Black Racism: A Response to Thomas Chatterton Williams 2012-03-17 Mark S. James, Fulbright Scholar Horlivka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages This article [Thomas Chatterton Williams, “As Black as We Wish to Be,” New York Times (March 16, 2012)] stipulates that people of mixed-race parentage do…

  • An Irish Tradition With an Only-in-America Star

    An Irish Tradition With an Only-in-America Star The New York Times 2012-03-17 Sabrina Tavernise GREENVILLE, Ohio — For those feeling down about the United States and its place in the world, meet Drew Lovejoy, a 17-year-old from rural Ohio. His background could not be more American. His father is black and Baptist from Georgia and…

  • St. Patrick’s Day holds mixed emotions for some

    St. Patrick’s Day holds mixed emotions for some The Boston Globe 2012-03-17 Martine Powers, Globe Staff Ryan McCollum knows that on St. Patrick’s Day, he cuts an unusual figure. All in green, a traditional Irish Claddagh ring on his finger and a houndstooth flat cap on his head, everything about his attire screams “Irish and…

  • Racing “mixed race” in the 21st century

    Racing “mixed race” in the 21st century Gender News The Clayman Institute for Gender Research Stanford University 2012-03-16 Krystale E. Littlejohn Mixed race and social negotiation What are you?  For many people, this question elicits a variety of responses: student, sister, brother, dancer, mother, sports enthusiast.  For ethnically ambiguous people, however, the question usually refers…

  • As Black as We Wish to Be

    As Black as We Wish to Be The New York Times 2012-03-16 Thomas Chatterton Williams My first encounter with my own blackness occurred in the checkout line at the grocery store. I was horsing around with my older brother, as bored children sometimes do. My blond-haired, blue-eyed mother, exasperated and trying hard to count out…

  • James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the Passing Novel

    James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the Passing Novel American Literature Volume 84, Number 1 (March 2012) pages 1-29 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-1540932 Geoffrey Sanborn, Associate Professor of Literature Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Sanborn’s essay seeks to demonstrate that The Headsman, an overlooked 1833 novel by James Fenimore Cooper, is an allegory of racial passing. After…