Category: Articles

  • DNA tests probe the genomic ancestry of Brazilians Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research Volume 42, Number 10 (October 2009) pages 870-876 DOI: 10.1590/S0100-879X2009005000026 S .D. J. Pena GENE, Núcleo de Genética Médica, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil L. Bastos-Rodrigues Departamento…

  • Reading between the (Blood) Lines Southern California Law Review Volume 83, Number 3 (2010) pages 473-494 Rose Cuison Villazor, Professor of Law Hofstra University School of Law Legal scholars and historians have depicted the rule of hypodescent—that “one drop” of African blood categorized one as Black—as one of the powerful ways that law and society…

  • Professor Marsha Daria to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #160 – Professor Marsha D. Daria…

  • Danbury’s multiracial students to star in film The Connecticut Post 2010-04-02 Eileen FitzGerald, Staff Writer Danbury, Connecticut—The three boys wore jeans and long-sleeve T-shirts. The two girls each wore a dozen bracelets and necklaces. They looked like typical students in the library media center at Broadview Middle School. It was their differences, however, that brought…

  • Towards a Dialogic Understanding Politics And Culture 2003-07-08 Victor Kulkosky Good morning. I’m talking today about a work in progress, so you’ll get more questions than answers this time around. Maybe you’ll get the answers at the next CSA conference, if there is one. I think most of us here agree that one of the…

  • Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871–1921 (review) Canadian Journal of Law and Society Volume 25, Number 1, 2010 E-ISSN: 1911-0227 Print ISSN: 0829-3201 DOI: 10.1353/jls.0.0104 Eve Darian-Smith, Professor of Law and Society University of California, Santa Barbara Colonial Proximities is a scholarly, innovative, and illuminating exploration of law, race, and…

  • Good Question: Is Obama The First Black President? WCCO-TV Good Question 2008-11-05 Jason Derush, Reporter You can’t turn on television or read a newspaper without seeing a reference to Sen. Barack Obama, the first black President. But wait a minute, said Naomi Banks, if Obama has a white mother, “My question is… why isn’t he…

  • The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War [Book Review] H-Net Reviews 2002-01-23 Ethan S. Rafuse, Associate Professor of Military History United States Military Academy Victoria E. Bynum.“The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War”.  The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies.  Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press,…

  • “It’s a Kind of Destiny″: The Cultural Mulatto in the “New Black Aesthetic” and ‘Sarah Phillips’ The Humanities Review A Publication of St. John’s University English Department, Jamaica, New York Volume 6.1 (Fall 2007) pages 21-28 Habiba Ibrahim, Assistant Professor of English University of Washington An Essay IN “THE NEW BLACK AESTHETIC,” published in Callaloo…

  • 2007 URO Spotlight: Noel Voltz – History and African American Studies Undergraduate Research Office The Ohio State University Noel Voltz is finishing her degree in African American and African Studies. She is currently writing her Honors Thesis and plans on continuing her research and pursuing a PhD in History. …What specifically have you researched, and…