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  • The New Ingredient in the Identity of Black Biracial Children

    The New Ingredient in the Identity of Black Biracial Children The Chicago Tribune Op-Ed December 1996 Larry E. Davis, Dean and Donald M. Henderson Professor of Social Work and Director of the Center on Race and Social Problems University of Pittsburgh [Republished in the Race and Social Problems: Interview with Dean Larry E. Davis post of…

  • The Aftermath of “You’re Only Half”: Multiracial Identities in the Literacy Classroom

    The Aftermath of “You’re Only Half”: Multiracial Identities in the Literacy Classroom Language Arts Volume 83 Number 2 (November 2005) pages 96-106 Elizabeth Dutro, Assistant professor of Literacy University of Colorado Elham Kazemi, Associate Professor of Mathematics Education University of Washington Ruth Balf, Fourth/Fifth-Grade Teacher Seattle Public Schools Children grapple with the complexities of race…

  • Strategies Multiracial College Women Use to Navigate Monoracial Systems

    Strategies Multiracial College Women Use to Navigate Monoracial Systems Education and Human Sciences, College of (CEHS) Open Access Theses and Dissertations from the College of Education and Human Sciences University of Nebraska, Lincoln May 2009 248 pages Minisa Michiko Chapman-Huls University of Nebraska – Lincoln A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College…

  • Opting for White: choice, fluidity and racial identity construction in post civil-rights America

    Opting for White: choice, fluidity and racial identity construction in post civil-rights America Race & Society Volume 5, Issue 1 (2002) Symposium on The Latin Americanization of Race Relations in the United States edited by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Pages 49–64 Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Associate Professor of Sociology Univerisity of Illinois, Chicago Patricia Arend, Lecturer in Sociology Babson…

  • Hapas: Emerging Identity, Emerging Terms and Labels & the Social Construction of Race

    Hapas: Emerging Identity, Emerging Terms and Labels & the Social Construction of Race Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies Volume II (October 2009) 20 pages Adriane E. Gamble Adriane E. Gamble presents part of her honors thesis in her paper “Hapas: Emerging Identity, Emerging Terms and Labels, and the Social Construction of Race.” Her paper…

  • A Phantom Childhood: Memories of my Ghost Brother by Heinz Insu Fenkl [Book Review]

    A Phantom Childhood: Memories of my Ghost Brother by Heinz Insu Fenkl [Book Review] Korean Quarterly Spring 1998 Marie Lee Setting a novel from a child’s point of view can be as risky a venture as, say, writing a novel in dialect. How to wrest an adult meaning from a child’s unformed thoughts? But if…

  • Boundaries Transgressed: Modernism and miscegenation in Langston Hughes’s “Red-Headed Baby”

    Boundaries Transgressed: Modernism and miscegenation in Langston Hughes’s “Red-Headed Baby” Atlantic Studies Volume 3, Issue 1 (April 2006) pages 97 – 110 DOI: 10.1080/14788810500525499 Isabel Soto This essay is an expanded and revised version of a paper read at the 8th International Conference On the Short Story in English, organized by the Instituto Universitario de…

  • Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture (review)

    Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture (review) MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 35, Number 1 (Spring 2010) E-ISSN: 1946-3170 Print ISSN: 0163-755X DOI: 10.1353/mel.0.0078 David Todd Lawrence, Associate Professor of English University of St. Thomas Passing narratives have long been a fixture of American literature. For African American authors, plots of racial…

  • Triumphant Miscegenation: Reflections on Beauty and Race in Brazil

    Triumphant Miscegenation: Reflections on Beauty and Race in Brazil Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 1 (February 2007) pages 83-97 DOI: 10.1080/07256860601082954 Alexander Edmonds, Professor of Medical Anthropology and Sociology University of Amsterdam In Brazil racial mixture, mestiçagem has been a dominant theme in the political and cultural re-imagination of the nation in the…

  • “Des couleurs primitives”: Miscegenation and French Painting of Algeria

    “Des couleurs primitives”: Miscegenation and French Painting of Algeria Visual Resources Volume 24, Issue 3 (2008) pages 273 – 298 DOI: 10.1080/01973760802284638 Peter Benson Miller, Art Historian Rome Art Program The Romantic concept of “local color” refers to a site of painterly experimentation, the application of pigment in the chromatic construction of a picture. The…