Category: Articles

  • Are We Content to Let Our DNA Define Us? Diaspora@chinaSMACK 2011-07-12 Ashton J. Liu A Chinese friend once responded harshly when asked, “Are you Japanese?” by a young child who had approached him on the street. His response struck me as strange. After all, my identity was always a topic of discussion. As a child…

  • “Suddenly and Shockingly Black”: The Atavistic Child in Turn-into-the-Twentieth-Century American Fiction African American Review Volume 41, Number 1 (Spring, 2007) pages 51-66 J. Michael Duvall, Associate Professor of English College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina Julie Cary Nerad, Associate Professor of English Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland From at least the Civil War through the…

  • Converging Spectres of an Other Within: Race and Gender in Prewar Afro-German History Callaloo Volume 26, Number 2 (Spring 2003) pages 322-341 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2003.0036 Tina Campt, Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Africana Studies Program Barnard College This article examines two of the earliest historical contexts in which Germans articulated…

  • Mental Conflicts of Eurasian Adolescents The Journal of Social Psychology Volume 5, Issue 3 (August 1934) pages 402-408 ISSN: 0022-4545 (Print), 1940-1183 (Online) DOI: 10.1080/00224545.1934.9921608 Linden B. Jenkins The article presents information on mental conflicts of Eurasian adolescents. In the early colonizing days when only young unmarried men were sent out there seemed to be…

  • FBI investigating racist threat in Polk County Chattanooga Times Free Press Chattanooga, Tennessee Sunday, 2011-06-26 Beth Burger Ducktown, Tenn.—More than a week after part of a cinderblock was thrown through a trailer window with a threatening racist message attached, an interracial Polk County couple continue to have sleepless nights. “I just want to get out…

  • Daniel Sharfstein awarded Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship by Fletcher Foundation Vanderbilt University Law School 2011-07-06 Daniel J. Sharfstein, associate professor of law, has been awarded an Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship by the Fletcher Foundation.   Professor Sharfstein’s new book, The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White, examines the…

  • Appiah’s Uncompleted Argument: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Reality of Race Social Theory and Practice Volume 26, Number 1 (Spring 2000) pages 103-128 Paul C. Taylor, Associate Professor of Philosophy Pennsylvania State University For people concerned by philosophy’s reputation for ivory-tower isolation, K. Anthony Appiah’s work on race is one of the more encouraging developments…

  • The Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Illusion of Race Critical Inquiry Volume 12, Number 1, “Race,” Writing, and Difference (Autumn, 1985) pages 21-37 Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy Princeton University Introduction Contemporary biologists are not agreed on the question of whether there are any human races, despite the widespread…

  • The Cross-Heart People: Race and Inheritance in the Silent Western Journal of Popular Film and Television Volume 30, Number 4 (Winter 2003) pages 181-196 DOI: 10.1080/01956050309602855 Joanna Hearne, Assistant Professor of English University of Missouri The author examines the visualization of Indianness in the context of cross-racial romance and in relation to the emergence of…

  • More than a ‘tragic mulatto’ Runnymede Bulletin Spring 2011, Issue 365 pages 26 Zaki Nahaboo Department of Politics & International Studies The Open University, UK Daniel R. McNeil. Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic: Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs. London: Routledge, 2009, 186 pp. Hardback ISBN 978-0-415-87226-3, Paperback ISBN 978-0-415-89391-6, eBook ISBN 978-0-203-85736-6. Daniel…