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  • Book Review: Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America

    Book Review: Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America Hot Topics in Journalism and Mass Communication 2010-05-19 Queenie A. Byars, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America. Catherine R. Squires. Albany, NY: State University of New…

  • Not-Black by Default

    Not-Black by Default The Nation Diary of a Mad Law Professor 2010-04-21 Patricia J. Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University Most people who appear phenotypically “black” don’t play around when the government asks them to report their race. Last week, Melissa Harris-Lacewell wrote an insightful column, “Black by Choice,” about President Obama’s…

  • America’s Mixed-Race Kids Examine Their Identity

    America’s Mixed-Race Kids Examine Their Identity Voice of America News 2010-05-05 Faiza Elmasry Washington, DC Photographs celebrate richness and beauty of multiracial society At least seven million Americans identify themselves as belonging to more than one race, and interest is rapidly growing in issues of multi-racial identity. In his new book, “Mixed: [Portraits of Multiracial…

  • At last! It’s cool to be mixed race (which is handy because I’m African, American, Jewish, Geordie, Irish, Scottish and Hungarian)

    At last! It’s cool to be mixed race (which is handy because I’m African, American, Jewish, Geordie, Irish, Scottish and Hungarian) The Daily Mail (United Kingdom) 2010-04-25 Oona King, Head of Diversity Channel 4 Comment by Steven F. Riley It should be noted that scientists have determined that there is more genetic variation within so-called…

  • The Multiracial Sheep IS the White Supremacist Fox

    A government and society that is ever ready to restrict the freedoms of Black folks now offers “freedom” from Blackness. This census and social “opt-out” for the progeny of interracial couples allows them to hope to be considered “as something entirely separate, different and apart from” what Curtis Mayfield called the “dark deep well.” The…

  • Politics and policies: attitudes toward multiracial Americans

    Politics and policies: attitudes toward multiracial Americans Ethnic and Racial Studies First Published on: 2010-04-15 Volume 33, Issue 9 (October 2010) pages 1511-1536 DOI: 10.1080/01419871003671929 Mary E. Campbell, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Iowa Melissa R. Herman, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dartmouth College The growing prominence of the multiracial population in the United States…

  • The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies [Review by Paul D. Escott]

    The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies [Review by Paul D. Escott] H-Net Reviews May, 2010 3 pages Paul D. Escott, Reynolds Professor of History Wake Forest University “Few histories,” writes Victoria Bynum, “are buried faster or deeper than those of political and social dissenters” (p. 148). The Long Shadow…

  • Dartmouth Junior wins Beinecke Scholarship

    Dartmouth Junior wins Beinecke Scholarship Dartmouth College Office of Public Affairs Press Release Media Contact: Kelly Sundberg Seaman 2010-05-18 Anise Vance, a member of the Dartmouth Class of 2011, has been named a Beinecke Scholar, one of 20 college juniors nationally. The award, which supports the “graduate education of young men and women of exceptional…

  • Census trend shows mixed-race Americans are more likely to identify with their multiracial background

    Census trend shows mixed-race Americans are more likely to identify with their multiracial background Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2010-05-18 Brittany Wong, Bruin contributor When President Barack Obama got to Question No. 9 on the 2010 Census, he did what mixed-race respondents nationwide were asked to do: pare down and define his complex…

  • Priming Race in Biracial Observers Affects Visual Search for Black and White Faces

    Priming Race in Biracial Observers Affects Visual Search for Black and White Faces Psychological Science Volume 17, Number 5 (2006) Pages 387-392 Joan Y. Chiao, Assistant Professor of Brain, Behavior, and Cognition; Social Psychology Northwestern University Hannah E. Heck Harvard University Ken Nakayama, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology Harvard University Nalini Ambady, Professor and Neubauer…