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  • Not as simple as black or white

    Not as simple as black or white The Voice 2011-11-21 Elizabeth Pears How mixed-race Brits are tackling issues surrounding dual heritage LAST MONTH, the UK’s fastest growing ethnic minority, as part of the BBC’s Mixed Britannia series, reignited the debate of what it means to be ‘mixed-race’. Demographers have predicted that Britain’s mixed-race population will…

  • Because of Intersex: Intersexuality, Title VII, and the Reality of Discrimination “Because of… [Perceived] Sex”

    Because of Intersex: Intersexuality, Title VII, and the Reality of Discrimination “Because of… [Perceived] Sex” New York University Law Review of Law & Social Change Volume 34, Issue 1 (2010) pages 55-121 Ilana Gelfman, Skadden Fellow Greater Boston Legal Services The federal doctrine of sex discrimination in employment depends on the underlying yet unstated assumption…

  • The Other Loving: Uncovering The Federal Government’s Racial Regulation of Marriage

    The Other Loving: Uncovering The Federal Government’s Racial Regulation of Marriage New York University Law Review Volume 86, Number 5 (November 2011) pages 1361-1443 Rose Cuison Villazor, Professor of Law University of California, Davis This Article seeks to fill a gap in legal history. The traditional narrative of the history of the American racial regulation…

  • Critical Legal Theorizing, Rhetorical Intersectionalities, and the Multiple Transgressions of the “Tragic Mulatta,” Anastasie Desarzant

    Critical Legal Theorizing, Rhetorical Intersectionalities, and the Multiple Transgressions of the “Tragic Mulatta,” Anastasie Desarzant Women’s Studies in Communication Volume 27, Issue 2, 2004 pages 119-148 DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2004.10162470 Marouf Hasian Jr., Professor of Communation University of Utah This essay provides a critical legal analysis of Anastasie Desarzant’s defamation case. The author argues that the use…

  • Full Blood, Mixed Blood, Generic, and Ersatz: The Problem of Indian Identity

    Full Blood, Mixed Blood, Generic, and Ersatz: The Problem of Indian Identity Arizona and the West Volume 27, Number 4 (Winter, 1985) pages 309-326 William T. Hagan, Professor Emeritus of History State University of New York, Fredonia University of Oklahoma One of the most perplexing problems confronting American Indians today is that of identity. Who…

  • The Near-White Female in Frances Ellen Harper’s Iola Leroy

    The Near-White Female in Frances Ellen Harper’s Iola Leroy Phylon (1960-) Volume 45, Number 4 (4th Quarter, 1984) pages 314-322 Vashti Lewis During the antebellum years, the near-white black character played a central role in the American novel. In fact, almost all of the novels of that period which feature near-white characters are antislavery tracts.…

  • NEA grant and UW book contract awarded for War Baby/Love Child

    NEA grant and UW book contract awarded for War Baby/Love Child Laura Kina 2011-11-22 Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University  A National Endowment for the Arts – 2012 Art Works Grant has been awarded to a project for which I am the primary investigator (aka project…

  • The Role of Racial Identification, Social Acceptance/Rejection, Social Cognition, and Racial Socialization in Multiracial Youth’s Positive Development

    The Role of Racial Identification, Social Acceptance/Rejection, Social Cognition, and Racial Socialization in Multiracial Youth’s Positive Development Sociology Compass Volume 5, Issue 11 (November 2011) pages 995-1004 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2011.00418.x Annamaria Csizmadia, Assistant Professor, Human Development & Family Studies University of Connecticut, Stamford Deficit-based scholarship has suggested that multiracial youth are maladjusted due to racial identity…

  • Redefining their races: More students choosing to identify as mixed

    Redefining their races: More students choosing to identify as mixed The Western Front Western Washington University Bellingham, Washington 2011-11-18 Casey Malloy When Western Washington University junior Emily Goronkin applied to the university three years ago, she came to a point in the application at which she was asked for her racial identity. She checked Hispanic…

  • The Mulatto in American Fiction

    The Mulatto in American Fiction Phylon (1940-1956) Volume 6, Number 1 (1st Quarter, 1945) pages 78-82 Penelope Bullock In its heterogenous population and the individualistic traits of its various inhabitants the United States possesses a reservoir teeming with literary potentiality. Throughout the years, the American writer has tapped these natural resources to bring forth products…