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  • The case of Ebony and Topaz: Racial and Sexual Hybridity in Harlem Renaissance Illustrations

    The case of Ebony and Topaz: Racial and Sexual Hybridity in Harlem Renaissance Illustrations American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography Volume 15, Number 1, (2005) pages 86-111 E-ISSN: 1548-4238 Print ISSN: 1054-7479 DOI: 10.1353/amp.2005.0006 Caroline Goeser, Assistant Professor of Art History University of Houston > University of Virginia Ebony and Topaz was…

  • The Mulatto Cyborg: Imagining a Multiracial Future

    The Mulatto Cyborg: Imagining a Multiracial Future Cinema Journal Volume 44, Number 2 (Winter, 2005) pages 34-49 Leilani Nishime, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington Applying the literature of passing to cyborg cinema makes visible the politics of cyborg representations and illuminates contemporary conceptions of mixed-race subjectivity and interpolations of mixed-race bodies. The passing…

  • Making sense of race and racial classification

    Making sense of race and racial classification Race and Society Volume 4, Issue 2, (2001) Pages 235-247 DOI: 10.1016/S1090-9524(03)00012-3 Angela D. James, Associate Professor of African American Studies Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles As social scientists, race scholars, and demographers, how do we begin to make sense of recent changes in the Census Bureau’s system…

  • Africans in China: Sweet and Sour in Guangzhou

    Africans in China: Sweet and Sour in Guangzhou The Africa Report 2010-02-01 Namvula Rennie Deterred by immigration controls in the West, African families and traders are moving to major Chinese cities, adding a new dimension to China-Africa relations. It’s raining again in Guangzhou. The downpours are sudden and violent, but do little to cool the…

  • 100% Multiracial

    100% Multiracial UrbanFaith.com 2010-06-11 Kyle Waalen The latest Census estimates show that multiracial people are the fastest growing demographic group in the United States. Yet many still struggle with the question of how many boxes to check. Two Christian women share about the tension and joy of being young and multiracial in America. Kristy McDonald…

  • Gender, Work and Fears of a ‘Hybrid Race’ in 1920s New Zealand

    Gender, Work and Fears of a ‘Hybrid Race’ in 1920s New Zealand Gender & History Volume 19, Issue 3 (November 2007) pages 501–518 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2007.00495.x Barbara Brookes, Professor of History Otago University, New Zealand The 1929 New Zealand Committee of Inquiry into the Employment of Māori on Market Gardens affords insight into the ways in…

  • What’s in a Name? Mixed-Race Families and Resistance to Racial Codification in Eighteenth-Century France

    What’s in a Name? Mixed-Race Families and Resistance to Racial Codification in Eighteenth-Century France French Historical Studies Volume 33, Number 3 (2010) Pages 357-385 DOI: 10.1215/00161071-2010-002 Jennifer L. Palmer, Collegiate Assistant Professor of History University of Chicago The Saint-Domingue planter Aimé-Benjamin Fleuriau did not simply leave colonialism behind when he returned to his hometown La…

  • It’s a wonderful, mixed-up world

    It’s a wonderful, mixed-up world The Daily Telegraph 2009-11-01 Aarathi Prasad There are now more mixed-race children than ever before—and that is something for us all to celebate, says the scientist Aarathi Prasad Just two weeks ago in Louisiana, an American Justice of the Peace made international news for refusing to issue marriage licences to…

  • Variability and Racial Mixture

    Variability and Racial Mixture The American Naturalist Volume 61, Number 672 (Jan. – Feb., 1927) paages 68-81 Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963), Professor of Anthropology and African Studies Northwestern University [Read a biographical memoir by Joseph C. Greenberg here.] [From Northwestern University: In 1948, Herskovits founded the Program of African Studies (PAS) at Northwestern, the first…

  • Soul Search

    Soul Search The Post Cork, Ireland 2010-09-05 Nadine O’Regan When poet and novelist Jackie Kay started the search for her birth parents, she didn’t realise how traumatic a journey it would be, though she doesn’t regret doing it. Jackie Kay met her birth father for the first time in a hotel room in Abuja, Nigeria,…