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  • Mixed Race: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

    Mixed Race: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanese Daily News 2011-06-19 Velina Hasu Houston Recently I was honored with a Loving Award from the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival (held June 11-12 at the Japanese American National Museum). The award and the meaning behind it has caused me to reflect on…

  • “Redemption for Our Anguished Racial History”: Race and the National Narrative in Commemorative Journalism About Barack Obama

    “Redemption for Our Anguished Racial History”: Race and the National Narrative in Commemorative Journalism About Barack Obama Journal of Communication Inquiry Volume 35, Number 2 (April 2011) pages 115-133 DOI: 10.1177/0196859911404604 Siobahn Stiles Temple University Carolyn Kitch, Professor of Journalism Temple University, Philadelphia This article considers how race was discussed in commemorative journalism produced after…

  • Obama Deception?: Empire, ‘Postracism’ and Hegemonic White Supremacy in the Campaign and Election of Barack Obama

    Obama Deception?: Empire, ‘Postracism’ and Hegemonic White Supremacy in the Campaign and Election of Barack Obama Critical Race Inquiry Volume 1, Number 2 (May 2011) ISSN: 1925-3850 Tamari Kitossa, Assistant Professor of Sociology Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada The essay provides a socio-historical account of the role that hegemonic white supremacy played in the…

  • In visit to Ireland, O’Bama seeks to reverse U.S. notions of race

    In visit to Ireland, O’Bama seeks to reverse U.S. notions of race The Philadelphia Inquirer 2011-05-25 John Timpane, Inquirer Staff Writer President Obama’s one-day visit to Ireland was a masterly orchestration of three visuals – one imaginary, two very real. Imaginary visual: the apostrophe in O’Bama. “My name is Barack Obama,” he said in Dublin,…

  • Who Are We? Producing Group Identity through Everyday Practices of Conflict and Discourse

    Who Are We? Producing Group Identity through Everyday Practices of Conflict and Discourse Sociological Perspectives Volume 54, Number 2 (Summer 2011) pages. 139-162 DOI: 10.1525/sop.2011.54.2.139 Jennifer A. Jones, SBS Diversity Post Doctoral Fellow Ohio State University, Columbus Multiracials have the flexibility to opt out of multiracial identity, to shift identities depending on context and are…

  • The Mixing of Races and Social Decay

    The Mixing of Races and Social Decay Eugenics Review Volume 41, Number 1 (April 1949) pages 11–16 The Right Rev. E. W. Barnes, Sc.D., F.R.S. (1874-1953) Biship of Birmingham, England I have chosen to address you on a subject of great importance. With regard to it strong differences of opinion exist. As we consider various…

  • Sterility Among Hybrids

    Turning now to human beings I would begin by stating that the mulatto is not so fertile as the pure black or pure white types. Statistics show that where the coloured population of the United States has the largest number of mulattoes, the birth rate is much lower than where the coloured population is pure…

  • The study of racial mixture in the British Commonwealth: Some anthropological preliminaries

    The study of racial mixture in the British Commonwealth: Some anthropological preliminaries Eugenics Review Volume 32, Number 4 (January 1941) pages 114-120 K. L. Little The Duckworth Laboratory University Museum of Ethnology, Cambridge In a recently published and noteworthy symposium entitled “Race Relations and the Race Problem,” eleven prominent American writers reviewed the sociological implications…

  • Racial mixture in Great Britain: some anthropological characteristics of the Anglo-negroid cross (A Preliminary Report)

    Racial mixture in Great Britain: some anthropological characteristics of the Anglo-negroid cross (A Preliminary Report) Eugenics Review Volume 33, Number 4 (January 1942) pages 112-120 K. L. Little The Duckworth Laboratory University Museum of Ethnology, Cambridge With the exception of a large number of family studies secured by Miss R. M. Fleming, little anthropological attention…

  • Half-Hearted Loving

    Half-Hearted Loving The Faculty Lounge: Conversations about law, culture, and academia 2011-06-13 Kevin Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Yesterday, June 12, marked the annual celebration of Loving Day.  This event commemorated the 1967 Supreme Court case of Loving v. Virginia, which invalidated the state’s Racial Integrity Act that prohibited interracial marriages.  Notably, Virginia’s…