Category: Articles

  • The Multiracial Identity Movement: Countless Ways to Misunderstand Race MixedRaceStudies.org 2011-11-04 Steven F. Riley In Jen Chau’s essay, “Multiracial Families: Counted But Still Misunderstood,” in the October 31, 2011 issue of Racialiscious, reveals just how much race is misunderstood by some activists within the multiracial identity movement and exemplifies why the movement—in its current form—is…

  • It is important, in any consideration of the American Negro, to understand the use of the term. The word “Negro” is, biologically, a misnomer, for the African Negroes, brought to the United States as slaves, have crossed in breeding with the dominant White population, as well as with the aboriginal American Indian types with whom…

  • Melville Jean Herskovits American Anthropologist Volume 66, Issue 1 (February 1964) pages 83-109 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1964.66.1.02a00080 Alan P. Merriam Melville Jean Herskovits (1895-1963) Melville Jean Herskovits was born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, September 10, 1895, and spent his childhood there and in Texas. In 1920 he took his Ph.B. at the University of Chicago, and later came…

  • Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix [Review: Glazier] Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries Volume 49, Number 2 (October 2011) Steven D. Glazier, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology University of Nebraska, Lincoln Spencer, Rainier. Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix. L. Rienner, 2011. 355p bibl index afp ISBN 9781588267511. Spencer’s insightful analysis and critique…

  • Leonard Darwin Scholarship of the Eugenics Society Nature Volume 138, Number 3496 (1936-11-31) page 756 DOI: 10.1038/138756a0 The Eugenics Society has established a second Leonard Darwin scholarship, which is to be devoted to the investigation of racial crossing. The first holder is J. C. Trevor, a graduate of Oxford in anthropology, who has spent the…

  • Crimes of Performance Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society Volume 13, Issue 1 (2011) Special Issue: Black Critiques of Capital: Radicalism, Resistance, and Visions of Social Justice pages 29-45 DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2011.551476 Uri McMillan, Assistant Professor of English University of California, Los Angeles In this article, I focus on the intersections between…

  • Guess who’s coming to brunch? Dating and the hybrid subject Race-Talk 2011-10-26 Adebe D. A., Race-Talk Cultural Editor I don’t have enough hands to count how many times people have asked me if my parents are “still together” and upon hearing that yes, they have been together for over 25 years, expressed sincere surprise at…

  • Bettez to discuss experiences of mixed race women The Southern Illinoisan 2011-10-28 Christi Mathis, Staff Writer University Communications at SIU Carbondale CARBONDALE – Silvia C. Bettez will present “But Don’t Call Me White: Mixed Race Women Exposing Nuances of Privilege and Oppression Politics” on Tuesday, Nov. 1, at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.   The guest…

  • Multiracial Families: Counted But Still Misunderstood Racialicious 2011-10-31 Jen Chau, Guest Contributor In the past couple of years, I have noticed a certain complacency that I never noticed before, in my eleven years of leading Swirl. The same passion and the same excitement around building multiracial communities had faded a bit. In the one year…

  • Signifying the tragic mulatto: A semiotic analysis of Alex Haley’s Queen Howard Journal of Communications Volume 7, Issue 2 (1996) pages 113-126 DOI: 10.1080/10646179609361718 Mark P. Orbe Karen E. Strother Employing a semiotic framework, this article explores the signification process of the lead character in Alex Haley’s Queen. This popular miniseries is significant because a…