Category: Articles

  • Has perception of biracial women changed in modern times? SMU Daily Campus Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 2011-05-03 Victoria Ahmadi As a biracial woman myself, I find it essential that society become better informed of the life-altering consequences that biracial individuals are forced to deal with. While the media’s perceptions of identity shift, young women…

  • Mar Gallego 2003: Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance: Identity Politics and Textual Strategies. Forum for European Contributions in African American Studies. Münster: Lit Verlag. 214 pp. [Review] Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies Volume 26, Number 1 (2004) Isabel Soto García Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia  (UNED) In her wide-ranging…

  • Mar Gallego. Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance: Identity, Politics and Textual Strategies [Review] African American Review Volume 38 (Winter 2004) pages 720-723 Mar Gallego. Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance: Identity, Politics and Textual Strategies. Hamburg: Lit Verlag Munster, 2003. 214 pp. Zhou Yupei Until very recently, novels of passing that appeared during the…

  • Multiracal In America Ebony Magazine May 2011 Adam Serwer In The Mix: Being Biracial in America When President Barack Obama checked “Black” on his census form last April, it was an actual news story. The Associated Press subhed [sub-headline] was lined with implicit anguish: “President Ticks One Box Concerning Racial Heritage on U.S. Census Form,…

  • The Mule as Metaphor in the Fiction of Charles Waddell Chesnutt Theory and Practice in English Studies Volume 4 (2005): Proceedings from the Eighth Conference of British, American and Canadian Studies. Brno: Masarykova univerzita Christopher E. Koy, Faculty of Arts University of West Bohemia, Plzen The term “mulatto,” meaning the offspring of one black parent…

  • The Complexities of Identity: Teaching Michelle Cliff’s Abeng to High School Students Minnesota English Journal Volume 45 – Fall 2009 pages 19-33 Angie Iserman, English Teacher Owatonna High School, Owatonna, Minnesota When I decided to return to the role of student in order to obtain my graduate degree, my hope was I could bury myself within…

  • The Modern Mulatto: A Comparative Analysis of the Social and Legal Positions of Mulattoes in the Antebellum South and the Intersex in Contemporary America Columbia Journal of Gender and Law Volume 15, Number 3 (September 2006) Marie-Amélie George, Associate Lawyer Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Recognizing new social forces working against the “correction”…

  • As the mixed-race population grows, the stigma of the past fades jcOnline.com (Journal and Courier) Lafayette – West Lafayette, Indiana 2011-05-01 Taya Flores Gerald and Susan Thomas experienced a hurtful racial climate in Greater Lafayette when they dated during the 1970s. A drive-by verbal assault in Lafayette early in their marriage is one Gerald still…

  • Shady’s Back New Matilda Surry Hills NSW, Australia 2011-05-02 Jennifer Mills As Obama is called to prove his place of birth, Indigenous Australians are being asked to account for their origins too. Not black enough, not white enough: Jennifer Mills on public anxiety about biracial identity The release of Obama’s birth certificate by the White…

  • Birtherism’s real anxiety The Carletonian Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 2011 Spring Issue 4 (2011-04-29) David Heifetz Can we put this issue to rest now? On Wednesday morning, President Obama surprised a lot of people by suddenly releasing his long-form birth certificate, which, of course, showed that he was born in Hawaii. In explaining why he…