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  • University of Vermont study examines biracial identity

    University of Vermont study examines biracial identity Burlington Free Press 2010-12-28 Tim Johnson, Free Press Staff Writer Even though he was born of a white mother and an African father, Barack Obama is commonly referred to as the first black president. That’s a sign, sociologists say, that America’s “one-drop rule”—a vestige of the United States’…

  • Scholars Say Chronicler of Black Life Passed for White

    Scholars Say Chronicler of Black Life Passed for White New York Times 2010-12-26 Felicia R. Lee Renown came to Jean Toomer with his 1923 book “Cane,” which mingled fiction, drama and poetry in a formally audacious effort to portray the complexity of black lives. But the racially mixed Toomer’s confounding efforts to defy being stuck…

  • The Cajuns of Southern Alabama: Morphology and Serology

    The Cajuns of Southern Alabama: Morphology and Serology American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 47, Issue 1 (July 1977) pages 1-6 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330470103 William S. Pollitzer University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Kadambari K. Namboodiri University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill William H. Coleman University of Alabama, Huntsville Wayne H. Finley University of Alabama, Birmingham…

  • Cultural Activities, Identities, and Mental Health Among Urban American Indians with Mixed Racial/Ethnic Ancestries

    Cultural Activities, Identities, and Mental Health Among Urban American Indians with Mixed Racial/Ethnic Ancestries Race and Social Problems Volume 2, Number 2 (2010) pages 101-114 DOI: 10.1007/s12552-010-9028-9 Yoshitaka Iwasaki, Professor of Rehabilitation Sciences and Social Work Temple University Namorah Gayle Byrd, Assistant Professor, Developmental English Gloucester County College, New Jersey Focus groups were conducted to…

  • “’Tain’t no tragedy unless you make it one”: Imitation of Life, Melodrama, and the Mulatta

    “’Tain’t no tragedy unless you make it one”: Imitation of Life, Melodrama, and the Mulatta Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory Volume 66, Number 4, Winter 2010 pages 93-113 E-ISSN: 1558-9595, Print ISSN: 0004-1610 Molly Hiro, Assistant Professor of English University of Portland, Portland, Oregon “I just moved here. My name…

  • The genealogical imagination: the inheritance of interracial identities

    The genealogical imagination: the inheritance of interracial identities The Sociological Review Volume 53, Issue 3 (August 2005) pages 476–494 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2005.00562.x Katharine Tyler, Lecturer in Race and Ethnicity Department of Sociology University of Surrey The aim of this article is to examine ethnographically how ideas of descent, biology and culture mediate ideas about the inheritance…

  • The New Nadir: The Political Economy of the Contemporary Black Racial Formation

    The New Nadir: The Political Economy of the Contemporary Black Racial Formation The Black Scholar 2010-03-22 Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign IN “THE NEW NADIR: The Political Economy of the Contemporary Black Racial Formation,” using the Marxist method of historical materialism analyze the period after…

  • Making Multiracials: State, Family, And Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line [Book Review]

    Making Multiracials: State, Family, And Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line [Book Review] The Black Scholar 2010-03-22 Alexes Harris, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Washington Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line, by Kimberly McClain DaCosta (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007; $30.95, paper, 280 pp; ISBN…

  • Les Enfants de la colonie: Les métis de l’Empire français entre sujétion et citoyenneté [Book Review]

    Les Enfants de la colonie: Les métis de l’Empire français entre sujétion et citoyenneté [Book Review] H-France Review (Society for French Historical Studies) Volume 8, Number 162 (November 2008) pages 654-657 Marie-Paule Ha The University of Hong Kong Emmanuelle Saada, Les Enfants de la colonie: Les métis de l’Empire français entre sujétion et citoyenneté. Paris: Editions…

  • Author Interview: Neela Vaswani

    Author Interview: Neela Vaswani Sarabane Books 2010-07-19 The lovely Neela Vaswani takes a moment to chat with us about her new book, You Have Given Me a Country, out August 15 [2010]. Your previous book, Where the Long Grass Bends, was a collection of short stories with a strongly mythic cast, and your memoir is…