Category: Articles

  • Tribal Rights vs. Racial Justice: Was the Cherokee Nation’s expulsion of black Freedmen an act of tribal sovereignty or of racial discrimination? The New York Times Room for Debate 2011-09-15 Kevin Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Matthew L. M. Fletcher, Professor of Law Michigan State University Cara Cowan-Watts, Acting Speaker Cherokee Nation Tribal…

  • Record-High 86% Approve of Black-White Marriages Gallup 2011-09-12 Jeffrey M. Jones Ninety-six percent of blacks, 84% of whites approve PRINCETON, NJ—Americans are approaching unanimity in their views of marriages between blacks and whites, with 86% now approving of such unions. Americans’ views on interracial marriage have undergone a major transformation in the past five decades.…

  • Elizabeth Fenwick Adams – Did she or didn’t she? A family history mystery. Historic Places in South Jersey 2011-03-07 J. Wright Twice this past week on gloriously sunny days that smelled of spring, friends and I headed down the highway on the trail of the mystery of Elizabeth Fenwick Adams and her alleged connection with…

  • University of Cincinnati president has a unique perspective on his life as a black man Cleveland Plain Dealer 2011-09-11 Karen Farkas CLEVELAND, Ohio—Gregory Williams says that in the five decades since he learned he was black and moved into a tarpaper shack with his black grandmother instead of a middle-class home with his white grandmother,…

  • The Mixed-Race Experience: Treatment of Racially Miscategorized Individuals under Title VII Asian American Law Review University of California Volume 12 (2005) Ken Nakasu Davison This article argues that the static legal construction of race has the dangerous potential to permit cases of racially-based discrimination, thus circumventing its prohibition in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.…

  • Choosing to be Multiracial in America: The Sociopolitical Implications of the “Check All That Apply” Approach to Race in the 2000 U.S. Census Berkeley La Raza Law Journal Volume 21 (2011) Alaina R. Walker I. INTRODUCTION Race in America has long been a contentious subject, especially when the government has been involved. Race can mean…

  • Family Histories of ‘Passing’ from Black to White Documented in Book Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2011-09-06 Katti Gray In the summer of 1993, as American-born Daniel Sharfstein registered Blacks to cast their first ballot in race-riven South Africa, he volunteered alongside a South African woman, who professed to be as authentically African as any…

  • Culture: The face in the mirror is mestizo San Antonio Current San Antonia, Texas 2006-02-22 Elaine Wolff, Current Editor Plaza de Armas A two-day roundtable takes a big eraser to identity lines “I’m looking for the mestizo eye, the mestizo subjunctive, the mestizo soul,” says author John Phillip Santos as we wander through Retratos: 2,000…

  • Multifaceted Identity of Interethnic Young People: Chameleon Identities [Review: DaCosta] Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews Volume 40, Number 5 (September 2011) pages 571-572 DOI: 10.1177/0094306111419111i Kimberly McClain DaCosta, Associate Professor Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University Multifaceted Identity of Interethnic Young People: Chameleon Identities, by Sultana Choudhry. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. 219…

  • Whoa, We Have a Black President Zócalo: Public Square 2011-09-08 Randall Kennedy Assesses Obama’s Triumphs—and Shortcomings—In Erasing the Color Line Randall Kennedy, Harvard professor of law and author of The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency, had an assignment: to answer whether or not Obama has been erasing the color…