Category: Articles

  • Interview: Whiteness Redux borderlands: e-journal Volume 3, Number 2 (2004) Mike Hill, Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies State University of New York, Albany Damien W. Riggs University of Adelaide, South Australia 1. Damien: As a research area that is rapidly growing within ‘Western nations’, how would you understand whiteness studies as both creating…

  • Turning Aboriginal—Historical Bents borderlands: e-journal Volume 7, Number 2 (2008) pages 1-19 Regina Ganter, Associate Professor, School of Humanities Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Under the pressures of binary identity politics the search for Aboriginal identity among people of mixed descent has become a Russian roulette that may end up with a public hanging where those…

  • The designs for cultural programs on most campuses seem to imply that students possess mono-cultural identities. However, with the increase in bi-racial and multi-racial students on campus, it is time for student affairs leaders to question the design for these programs.

  • The importance of being “other”: A natural experiment about lived race over time Social Science Research Volume 36, Issue 1 (March 2007) pages 159-174 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2005.11.002 J. Scott Brown, Associate Professor of Gerontology, Scripps Research Fellow Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Steven Hitlin, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Iowa Glen H. Elder, Jr., Research Professor…

  • Our Changing Identities The New Black Magazine 2010-10-18 Adam K. Raymond On forms asking their racial or ethnic backgrounds, young people of multi-racial origin give different answers at different times. As a teenager, Cameron Clark, whose mother is white and father is black, always checked “African-American” on forms that asked about his race. “I needed…

  • Sniffing Elephant Bones: The Poetics of Race in the Art of Ellen Gallagher Callaloo Volume 19, Number 2, Spring 1996 E-ISSN: 1080-6512 Print ISSN: 0161-2492 pages 337-339 DOI: 10.1353/cal.1996.0074 Judith Wilson, Former Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Assistant Professor of Art History and Assistant Professor of Visual Studies University of California, Irvine What she…

  • Biraciality and Nationhood in Contemporary American Art Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Art and Culture Volume 14, Number 53 (Winter 2001-2002) pages 43–54 Kymberly N. Pinder, Associate Professor of Art History School of the Art Insitute of Chicago An article on work by artists responding to racial hybridity that features a discussion of Lorraine O’Grady’s…

  • Optical Illusions: Images of Miscegenation in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Art American Art Volume 5, Number 3 (Summer, 1991) pages 88-107 Judith Wilson, Former Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Assistant Professor of Art History and Assistant Professor of Visual Studies University of California, Irvine miscegenationn. [Latin miscere to mix + genus race…]: a mixture…

  • Mixed heritage models set to face off Mancunian Matters Manchester, England 2010-10-29 Natasha Carter Models will take to the catwalk in the UKs first mixed-race model contest held by a Manchester-based social enterprise tomorrow. Twenty finalists, all of mixed heritage, will go head to head on October 30th for the title of the Face of…

  • Everyone Looks a Little Bit Asian truthdig: drilling beneath the headlines 2010-10-27 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Like many other Hispanics, I am a member of Generation E.A. (ethnically ambiguous). Over the years I’ve been mistaken for just about every racial or ethnic combination—from Eurasian to Afro-Irish to Arab-Native American. This guessing game…