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  • Black devils, white saints and mixedrace femme fatales: Philippa Schuyler and the winds of change

    Black devils, white saints and mixedrace femme fatales: Philippa Schuyler and the winds of change Critical Arts Volume 25, Issue 3 (2011) Special Issue: The Afropessimism Phenomenon pages 360-376 DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2011.615140 Daniel R. McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom This article sheds new light on abstract definitions of Afropessimism by analysing…

  • The pot that called the kettle white: Changing racial identities and U.S. social construction of race

    The pot that called the kettle white: Changing racial identities and U.S. social construction of race Identities Volume 5, Issue 3 (1998) Special Issue: Foundational Concepts: Gender, Race, and Locality pages 379-413 DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962622 Norberto Valdez, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies Colorado State University Janice Valdez Continuing Education Department Colorado State University Ethnic and racial…

  • Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix [Review: Harman]

    Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix [Review: Harman] Ethnic and Racial Studies Available online: 2011-10-21 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.623133 Vicki Harman, Lecturer in the Centre for Criminology and Sociology Royal Holloway, University of London Rainier Spencer. Reproduction Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix, Boulder, CO: Lyne Rienner Publishers, 2010, 355 pp. From the outset, Reproducing Race…

  • Comparative studies of full and mixed blood North Dakota Indians

    Comparative studies of full and mixed blood North Dakota Indians Psychological Monographs Volume 50, Number 5 (1938) pages 116-129 DOI: 10.1037/h0093522 C. W. Telford The early comparative studies of Indian-white mixtures in America uniformly reported superior mental test performances of mixed as compared with full blood Indians. The tests used in these investigations were principally…

  • Test performance of full and mixed-blood North Dakota Indians

    Test performance of full and mixed-blood North Dakota Indians Journal of Comparative Psychology Volume 14, Number 1 (August 1932) pages 123-145 DOI: 10.1037/h0069966 C. W. Telford 225 Indian pupils scattered through the kindergarten to the sixth grade, inclusive, were given the Goodenough intelligence test. The average IQ of the Indian children was 88, as compared with…

  • The threat of ‘woolly-haired grandchildren’: Race, the colonial family and German nationalism

    The threat of ‘woolly-haired grandchildren’: Race, the colonial family and German nationalism The History of the Family Volume 14, Issue 4 (2009-10-26) The Domestic Frontier: European Colonialism, Nationalism and the Family Pages 356-368 DOI: 10.1016/j.hisfam.2009.08.002 Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, Senior Lecturer in International History Flinders University, Australia The German colonial world was marked by an ostensibly…

  • Passed Over: The Tragic Mulatta and (Dis)Integration of Identity in Adrienne Kennedy’s Plays

    Passed Over: The Tragic Mulatta and (Dis)Integration of Identity in Adrienne Kennedy’s Plays African American Review Volume 35, Number 2 (Summer, 2001) pages 281-295 DOI: 10.2307/2903258 E. Barnsley Brown Much recent interest in the drama of Adrienne Kennedy has been spawned by the publication of her innovative autobiography People Who Led to My Plays (1987),…

  • Obama’s Racial Identity Is His Call

    Obama’s Racial Identity Is His Call Poynter. 2008-12-16 Tom Huang, Sunday & Enterprise Editor The Dallas Morning News Also Ethics and Diversity Fellow at The Poynter Institute Not long ago, I sat on a journalism panel in which the question of “What are you?” came up… …I thought about the “What are you?” question when…

  • Desdemona’s Fire – Review

    Desdemona’s Fire – Review African American Review Volume 35, Number 2 (Summer 2001) pages 342-343 Lesley Wheeler, Henry S. Fox Professor of English Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia Ruth Ellen Kocher. Desdemona’s Fire. Detroit: Lotus P, 1999. 62 pp. This shapely first collection, 1999 winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, rises with…

  • Sun uses it’s Arsenal to divide us

    Sun uses it’s Arsenal to divide us Lester Holloway 2011-08-17 Lester Holloway, Liberal Democrat Councillor, Journalist & Equality Campaigner London Borough of Sutton Top footballers are good at what they do but the Government does not turn to Ashley Cole or John Terry for economic advice. By the same token, their views on race shouldn’t…