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  • Eurafricans in Western Africa: Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century [Book Review]

    Eurafricans in Western Africa: Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century [Book Review] H-Africa H-Net Reviews March 2004 Eric S. Ross, Coordinator, School of Humanities and Social Sciences Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco George Brooks’s Eurafricans in Western Africa is the sequel to his Landlords and Strangers (1993).…

  • Passings That Pass in America: Crossing Over and Coming Back to Tell About It

    Passings That Pass in America: Crossing Over and Coming Back to Tell About It The History Teacher Volume 40, Number 4 (August 2007) 32 paragraphs Donald Reid, Professor of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill TEMPORARILY PASSING as an other is a universal fantasy and a not uncommon practice. From Arab potentates dressed as…

  • With Shades of Gray

    With Shades of Gray Emory Magazine Emory University Spring 2009: Coda: A Changing Country Reflections on the Inauguration of President Barack Obama Taharee Jackson, ’10 PhD The last thing I could afford to do was attend the presidential inauguration at the National Mall, but I simply couldn’t miss it. I had to go and represent…

  • The best fiction and poetry of 2010

    The best fiction and poetry of 2010 The Washington Post Friday, 2010-12-10 …THE GIRL WHO FELL FROM THE SKY, by Heidi W. Durrow (Algonquin, $22.95). When several family members fall off the roof of a Chicago apartment building, the sole survivor is biracial Rachel, who goes to live with her grandmother in an African American…

  • Why Biracial Means Black: The History of Race in America Means Most Blacks Are Biracial to Some Degree

    Why Biracial Means Black: The History of Race in America Means Most Blacks Are Biracial to Some Degree The Root 2010-12-14 Lauren Williams, Associate Editor Checking a census box that says “black” doesn’t mean you’re denying your white ancestry. It’s just how we roll in America. When Halle Berry scored her milestone Oscar win in…

  • Passing for Black? Biracial Americans Are Increasingly ‘Passing for Black’

    Passing for Black?  Biracial Americans Are Increasingly ‘Passing for Black’ The Root 2010-12-14 Thomas Chatterton Williams A new study posits that black-white biracial adults are increasingly choosing, like President Obama, to emphasize their blackness. But in this country, “black” has always been a mongrel affair. It created a minor media frenzy last spring when President Barack…

  • Who’s White? Who’s Black? Who Knows?

    Who’s White? Who’s Black? Who Knows? Time Magazine: Healthland Friday, 2010-12-10 Jeffrey Kluger, Senior Editor Never mind what you’ve heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black…

  • Study Looks at Biracial Assignment

    Study Looks at Biracial Assignment The Harvard Crimson 2010-12-13 Hana N. Rouse, Crimson Staff Writer People classify biracial children as members of the minority parent group People have the tendency to classify those of biracial descent as members of their minority parent group rather than as equal members of both races, according to a recent…

  • Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness (review)

    Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness (review) Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 41, Number 3, Winter 2010 E-ISSN: 1530-9169, Print ISSN: 0022-1953 pages 478-480 Adriane Lentz-Smith, Hunt Family Assistant Professor History Duke Univeristy In October 1924, Leonard Rhinelander, scion of a wealthy and well-established New York family, wed Alice Jones,…

  • Natasha Trethewey: 2010

    Natasha Trethewey: 2010 Littoral: The Journal of Key West Literary Seminar 2010-03-17 Arlo Haskell Natasha Trethewey is the author of three collections of poetry, including Native Guard, which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, Bellocq’s Ophelia, and Domestic Work, which won the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize. A native of Mississippi, a member of the Dark…