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  • President Underscores Similarities With Brazilians, but Ignores One

    President Underscores Similarities With Brazilians, but Ignores One The New York Times 2011-03-20 Alexei Barrionuevo Jackie Calmes RIO de JANEIRO — From a visit to this city’s most infamous slum to a national address amid the gilded elegance of a celebrated theater, President Obama on Sunday sought to underscore the shared histories and futures of…

  • Census serves up racial buffet in Silicon Valley

    Census serves up racial buffet in Silicon Valley Silicon Valley Mercury News 2011-03-20 Joe Rodriguez Who are you? What are you? Sara Phillips, a 20-year-old computer science student from Hawaii at Santa Clara University, just may have the new look of the 21st century. When her 2010 Census form arrived last year, she gazed at…

  • Fear and Desire: Regional Aesthetics and Colonial Desire in Kate Chopin’s Portrayals of the Tragic Mulatta Stereotype

    Fear and Desire: Regional Aesthetics and Colonial Desire in Kate Chopin’s Portrayals of the Tragic Mulatta Stereotype The Southern Literary Journal Volume 43, Number 1 (Fall 2010) pages 1-22 E-ISSN: 1534-1461 Print ISSN: 0038-4291 Dagmar Pegues The interrogation of the category of race in Kate Chopin’s fiction represents an essential dimension of regional aesthetics, and…

  • The Mestizos of South Carolina

    The Mestizos of South Carolina The American Journal of Sociology Volume 51, Number 1 (July 1945) pages 34-41 Brewton Berry There are several communities of white-Indian-Negro hybrids in South Carolina, the members of which do not fit into the biracial caste system upon which the state’s whole social structure is built. Similar groups are found…

  • Black and White and Married in the Deep South: A Shifting Image

    Black and White and Married in the Deep South: A Shifting Image The New York Times 2011-03-19 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent HATTIESBURG, Miss. — For generations here in the deepest South, there had been a great taboo: publicly crossing the color line for love. Less than 45 years ago, marriage between blacks and whites was…

  • Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective by Mark Christian [Book Review]

    Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective by Mark Christian [Book Review] Journal of Black Studies Volume 32, Number 2 (November 2001) pages 261-264 DOI: 10.1177/002193470103200206 Molefi Kete Asante, Professor of African American Studies Temple University Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective, by Mark Christian. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. Mark Christian has written a perceptive, enlightening…

  • Does Multiracial Matter? A Study of Racial Disparities in Self-Rated Health

    Does Multiracial Matter? A Study of Racial Disparities in Self-Rated Health Demography Volume 48, Number 1 pages 127-152 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-010-0005-0 Jenifer L. Bratter, Associate Professor of Sociology Rice University Bridget K. Gorman, Associate Professor of Sociology Rice University How do self-identified multiracial adults fit into documented patterns of racial health disparities? We assess whether the…

  • Love in black and white

    Love in black and white Electronic Precinct University of Liverpool August 1998 Muriel Fletcher and Margaret Todd, (second and third from left, middle row) with students and staff of the School of Social Science 1926-27 Source: University of Liverpool Two students who graduated from this University in 1927 play important roles in the film ‘Love…

  • The Invisible Line: American families’ journeys from black to white

    The Invisible Line: American families’ journeys from black to white Research news@Vanderbilt Vanderbilt University 2011-02-17 Amy Wolf The idea of someone transitioning from black to white, without science or surgery, seems hard to grasp on the surface. Yet Vanderbilt Law School professor Daniel J. Sharfstein finds that African Americans have continually crossed the color line…

  • BBC Two explores what it means to be mixed-race in Britain

    BBC Two explores what it means to be mixed-race in Britain British Broadcasting Corporaton 2010-03-10 Mixed-Race Britain is put under the spotlight this autumn on BBC Two in a collection of revealing and compelling new programmes. Britain in 2011 has proportionately the largest mixed population in the Western world, but 100 years ago people of…