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  • Why Do We Consider Obama to Be Black?

    Why Do We Consider Obama to Be Black? New America Media Commentary 2008-10-25 Ronald Takaki (1939-2009), Emeritus Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Berkeley A historical look at the the persistence of the “one drop” rule. Editor’s Note: Historian and scholar Ronald Takaki uncovers the origins of the “one drop” rule that was key…

  • Sci fi offers surprising insights on race

    Sci fi offers surprising insights on race The Brandeis Hoot 2009-03-06 Marissa Lainzi Months and months of wading through red ink, volleying e-mails, coordinating, coordinating, and coordinating came to fruition for the Mixed Heritage Club on Friday night, as their much-anticipated speaker, Eric Hamako, gave the talk, “Monsters, Messiahs, or Something Else?” a discussion of…

  • Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above

    Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above The New York Times 2011-01-29 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent Race Remixed: A New Sense of Identity. Articles in this series will explore the growing number of mixed-race Americans. COLLEGE PARK, Md.—In another time or place, the game of “What Are You?” that was played…

  • Remembering Mildred Loving, Unsung Hero of the Civil Rights Movement

    Remembering Mildred Loving, Unsung Hero of the Civil Rights Movement Counterpunch 2008-05-09 Mark A. Huddle, Associate Professor of History Georgia College and State University Fighting “Anti-Miscegenation” Laws On May 2, Mildred Loving died from complications of pneumonia at the age of 68.  The unassuming Mrs. Loving would have scoffed at the notion that she was…

  • Why Obama is African American, Not Biracial

    Why Obama is African American, Not Biracial New America Media Commentary 2008-12-18 Earl Ofari Hutchinson Here’s the ‘What is President-elect Barack Obama—black, biracial or multiracial?’ quiz. If he did not have one of the world’s most recognizable names and faces, he would fume at being turned away from restaurants, bypassed by taxis, racially profiled by…

  • Being Black and White

    Being Black and White The American Prospect 2001-09-09   E. J. Graff, Associate Director and Senior Researcher The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black By Gregory Howard Williams. Plume (1996), 285 pages, paperback The Color…

  • ‘Land of our Mothers’: Home, Identity, and Nationality for Anglo-Indians in British India, 1919–1947

    ‘Land of our Mothers’: Home, Identity, and Nationality for Anglo-Indians in British India, 1919–1947 History Workshop Journal Volume 54, Issue 1 pages 49-72 DOI: 10.1093/hwj/54.1.49 Alison Blunt, Professor of Geography Queen Mary, University of London This paper explores the symbolic and material intersections of home, identity and nationality for Anglo-Indians (previously known as ‘Eurasians’) in…

  • Every mixed race marriage is building a better Britain

    Every mixed race marriage is building a better Britain The Independent 1999-03-04 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Lynchings, imprisonment and social exclusion will never stop individual s breaking racial barriers WE HAVE looked, for a good many days, at the poisonous worms of racism as the Lawrence inquiry team turned over the soil. The coverage of this event…

  • Patterns of Situational Identity Among Biracial and Multiracial College Students

    Patterns of Situational Identity Among Biracial and Multiracial College Students The Review of Higher Education Volume 23, Number 4 (Summer 2000) pages 399–420 E-ISSN: 1090-7009, Print ISSN: 0162-5748 DOI: 10.1353/rhe.2000.0019 Kristen A. Renn, Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education Michigan State University Using qualitative grounded theory framed by postmodern racial identity theory, the…

  • Memorandum Concerning the Characteristics of the Larger Mixed-Blood Racial Islands of the Eastern United States

    In many of the eastern States of this country there are small pockets of peoples who arc scattered here and there in different counties and who are complex mixtures in varying degrees of white, Indian, and Negro blood. These small local groups seem to develop especially where environmental circumstances such as forbidding swamps or inaccessible and…