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  • The Silence of Miss Lambe: Sanditon and Fictions of ‘Race’ in the Abolition Era

    The Silence of Miss Lambe: Sanditon and Fictions of ‘Race’ in the Abolition Era Eighteenth-Century Fiction Volume 18, Issue 3 (Spring 2006) pages 329-353 Sarah Salih, Professor of English University of Toronto Although it would be difficult to argue that Sanditon (1817) is “historical” in any immediately obvious sense, it is nonetheless clear that the…

  • The Tapestry of Walter White’s Contradictions [Book Review]

    The Tapestry of Walter White’s Contradictions [Book Review] Sewanee Review Volume 118, Number 3, Summer 2010 pages lxxxii-lxxxiv E-ISSN: 1934-421X Print ISSN: 0037-3052 Sanford Pinsker, Emeritus Professor of English Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Tom Dyja. “Walter White: The Dilemma of Black identity in America”.  The Library of African American Biography.  Lanham, Maryland: Ivan R. Dee Publishsers,…

  • Race Mixture: Boundary Crossing in Comparative Perspective

    In this article, we examine a large, interdisciplinary, and somewhat scattered literature, all of which falls under the umbrella term race mixture. We highlight important analytical distinctions that need to be taken into account when addressing the related, but separate, social phenomena of intermarriage, miscegenation, multiracial identity, multiracial social movements, and race-mixture ideologies.

  • La China Poblana and Other Constructions of Asian Latinos/as

    La China Poblana and Other Constructions of Asian Latinos/as Clave: Counterdisciplinary Notes on Race, Power & the State A Project of LatCrit Inc. and Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico Summer 2006 22 pages Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Professor of History, and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Brown University She…

  • Crossing Race and Nationality: The Racial Formation of Asian Americans 1852-1965

    Crossing Race and Nationality: The Racial Formation of Asian Americans 1852-1965 Monthly Review December 2005 Bob Wing Bob Wing was part of the first wave of Asian-American activists in the late 1960s. He was founding editor of the antiwar newspaper, War Times,and of the racial justice magazine, ColorLines, and is one of the national leaders…

  • Between Hoax and Hope: Miscegenation and Nineteenth-Century Interracial Romance

    Between Hoax and Hope: Miscegenation and Nineteenth-Century Interracial Romance Literature Compass Volume 3, Issue 4 (July 2006) pages 648–657 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00345.x Katharine Nicholson Ings, Associate Professor of English Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana This essay surveys recent scholarship on interracial romance during the nineteenth century using the hoax Miscegenation pamphlet of 1863 as a lens.…

  • School Racial Composition and Biracial Adolescents’ School Attachment

    School Racial Composition and Biracial Adolescents’ School Attachment Sociological Quarterly Volume 51, Issue 1 (Winter 2010) Published Online: 2010-01-15 Pages 150 – 178 DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2009.01166.x Simon Cheng, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut Joshua Klugman, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Psychology Temple University Despite extensive research on multiracial youth in recent years, to date, no…

  • Demographic Knowledge and Nation-Building: The Peruvian Census of 1940

    Demographic Knowledge and Nation-Building: The Peruvian Census of 1940 Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte Published online 2010-08-03 DOI: 10.1002/bewi.201001471 Raúl Necochea López McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Demographic Knowledge and Nation-Building: The Peruvian Census of 1940. The demographers who organized the 1940 census of Peru portrayed the increasingly mixed-race Peruvian population as indicative of the breaking down…

  • What’s in a name? An exploration of the significance of personal naming of ‘mixed’ children for parents from different racial, ethnic and faith backgrounds

    What’s in a name? An exploration of the significance of personal naming of ‘mixed’ children for parents from different racial, ethnic and faith backgrounds The Sociological Review Volume 56, Issue 1, February 2008 pages 39–60 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2008.00776.x Rosalind Edwards, Professor in Social Policy Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Chamion Caballero,…

  • The Racial Politics of Mixed Race

    The Racial Politics of Mixed Race Journal of Social Philosophy Volume 30, Issue 2, Summer 1999 pages 276–294 DOI: 10.1111/0047-2786.00018 Lisa Tessman, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies Binghamton University, State University of New York Recently there has been an increasing amount of attention given in academic, political, and popular settings in the United…