Category: Articles

  • Seeing Black Women Anew through Lesbian Desire in Nella Larsen’s Passing Rocky Mountain Review Rocky Mountain Language Association Volume 60, Number 1 (Spring 2006) pages 25-52 H. Jordan Landry, Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Beginning in the 1910s and 1920s, a series of novels advocate that African Americans commit themselves to “loving blackness,”…

  • Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels [Review] Rocky Mountain Review Rocky Mountain Language Association Volume 61, Number 1 (Spring 2007) pages 41-43 Susana M. Morris, Assistant Professor of English Auburn University Ryan Simmons. Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. 198p. Ryan Simmons’ Chesnutt and Realism:…

  • Multicultural Artist and Educator to Speak at UVU Utah Valley University Orem, Utah 2011-03-24 Jim Rayburn Louie Gong, a nationally-recognized artist and mixed-heritage advocate, will speak at Utah Valley University on March 31 at 2 p.m. at the Sorensen Student Center, room 206A. Gong—of Nooksack, Squamish, Chinese, French and Scottish descent—is known best for his…

  • Comparative racisms: What anti-racists can learn from Latin America Ethnicities Volume 11, Number 1 (2011-03-31) pages 32-58 DOI: 10.1177/1468796810388699 Jonathan Warren, Chair of the Center for Brazilian Studies; Associate Professor of International Studies University of Washington Christina A. Sue, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Colorado, Boulder There has been extensive debate about the putative…

  • Racial/Ethnic Identities and Related Attributed Experiences of Multiracial Japanese European Americans Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development Volume 32 (October 2004) pages 206-221 Karen L. Suyemoto, Associate Professor of Psychology and Asian American Studies University of Massachusetts, Boston Surveys from 50 multiracial Japanese European Americans supported the endorsement of multiple simultaneous racial/ethnic identities and a…

  • Understanding what it means to be mixed Excalibur York University’s Community Newspaper 2011-03-30 Victoria Alarcon, Sports & Health Editor People have always seen me as different. It doesn’t matter where I went, when it happened or who it was; I’ve too often come face-to-face with puzzled looks and people examining me, trying to dissect what…

  • Passing as Black The University of Vermont University Communications 2011-03-30 Lee Ann Cox The new dynamics of biracial identity in America There’s a rule everybody knows. Not the golden one. Since the days of slavery and Jim Crow segregation, when “one drop” of black ancestry determined the whole of who you were, black-by-default is a…

  • Mixed Race Week begins with Loving Day awareness dinner Today@Colorado State Colorado State University 2011-03-30 This Friday, Apr. 1, marks the beginning of the 3rd-annual Mixed Race Week, a series of presentations and activities celebrating the multiracial and interracial community at Colorado State University. The yearly event is put on by Shades of CSU, an…

  • GW gives community option to identify as multiracial The GW Hatchet George Washington University, Washington D.C. 2011-03-28 Pavan Jagannathan, Hatchet Reporter The University added a new category for multiracial students, faculty and staff to classify themselves as “two or more races” in University institutional data, moving into compliance with a new federal regulation. University Provost…

  • Making (mixed-)race: census politics and the emergence of multiracial multiculturalism in the United States, Great Britain and Canada Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Issue 8, 2012 pages 1409-1426 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.556194 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University During the same time period, the United States, Great Britain and Canada all moved towards…