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  • Brass Ankles Speak

    Brass Ankles Speak Essays by Alice Dunbar-Nelson circa 1929 Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) Prefatory Note by Gloria T. Hull Entitled “Brass Ankles Speaks” (Vol. 2, WADN), it is an outspoken denunciation of darker skinned black people’s prejudice against light-skinned blacks told by a “brass ankles,” a black person “white enough to pass for white, but with…

  • Stepping into the Same River Twice: Internal/External Subversion of the Inside/Outside Dialectic in Alice Walker’s “The Temple of My Familiar”

    Stepping into the Same River Twice: Internal/External Subversion of the Inside/Outside Dialectic in Alice Walker’s “The Temple of My Familiar” Journal of Bisexuality Volume 2, Issue 2 & 3 (October 2002) pages 53-71 DOI: 10.1300/J159v02n02_04 Sikorski Grace, Associate Professor of English Anne Arundel Community College, Maryland Passing novels, exemplified here by E. Lynn Harris’s Invisible…

  • Surveying the Intersection: Pathology, Secrecy, and the Discourses of Racial and Sexual Identity

    Surveying the Intersection: Pathology, Secrecy, and the Discourses of Racial and Sexual Identity Journal of Homosexuality Volume 26, Issue 2 & 3 (December 1993) pages 1-20 DOI: 10.1300/J082v26n02_01 Marylynne Diggs “Surveying the Intersection: Pathology, Secrecy, and the Discourses of Racial and Sexual Identity” cautions against the risks of metaphorical imperialism in readings of codified gay…

  • The Devil and the One Drop Rule: Racial Categories, African Americans and the U.S. Census

    The Devil and the One Drop Rule: Racial Categories, African Americans and the U.S. Census Michigan Law Review Volume 95, Number 5 (March 1997) pages 1161-1265 Christine B. Hickman, Associate Professor of Law California Western School of Law Table of Contents Introduction I. Treatment of Mixed-Race People: The Early Legal Record A. The First African…

  • Civilisation, Culture and the Hybrid Self in the work of Robert Ezra Park

    Civilisation, Culture and the Hybrid Self in the work of Robert Ezra Park Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 27, Issue 4 (November 2006) pages 413-433 DOI: 10.1080/07256860600936911 Vince Marotta, Senior Lecturer in Sociology Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Contemporary discussions on hybridity in cultural and ethnic studies have overlooked the work of the Chicago sociologist Robert…

  • Researching mixed race in education: perceptions, policies and practices

    Researching mixed race in education: perceptions, policies and practices Race Ethnicity and Education Volume 10, Issue 3 (September 2007) pages 345-362 DOI: 10.1080/13613320701503389 Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Jo Haynes, Lecturer in Sociology University of Bristol Leon Tikly, Professor in Education and Deputy Director of…

  • Kelly Jackson: Faculty spotlight

    Kelly Jackson: Faculty spotlight Arizona State University College of Public Programs 2011-01-14 Dr. Kelly Jackson is an Assistant Professor in Social Work in the College of Public Programs. Before coming to the College four years ago, she earned her Masters in Social Work from the University at Albany, and her PhD in Social Welfare from…

  • Admixture in a biologically African caste of Black Americans

    Admixture in a biologically African caste of Black Americans American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 74, Issue 2 (October 1987) pages 265–273 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330740213 Curtis W. Wienker, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology University of South Florida Social and historical factors account for much of the variation in European ancestry among different Black American populations, including that…

  • Mestizaje and Law Making in Indigenous Identity Formation in Northeastern Brazil: “After the Conflict Came the History”

    Mestizaje and Law Making in Indigenous Identity Formation in Northeastern Brazil: “After the Conflict Came the History” American Anthropologist Volume 106, Issue 4 (December 2004) pages 663–674 DOI: 10.1525/aa.2004.106.4.663 Jan Hoffman French, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Richmond In this article, I explore issues of authenticity, legal discourse, and local requirements of belonging by…

  • White Mothers, Brown Children: Ethnic Identification of Maori-European Children in New Zealand

    White Mothers, Brown Children: Ethnic Identification of Maori-European Children in New Zealand Journal of Marriage and Family Volume 69, Issue 5 (December 2007) pages 1150–1161 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2007.00438.x Tahu H. Kukutai, Senior Research Fellow Population Studies Centre University of Waikato Studies of multiethnic families often assume the ethnic identification of children with the minority group results…