Category: Articles

  • Dominic Mhiripiri ’12: Please. Mr. Obama is not black The Brown Daily Herald 2010-02-03 Dominic Mhiripiri, Opinions Columnist Recently, the United States marked the first anniversary of Barack Obama’s historic ascent to the apex of American politics. For a candidate who electrified a whole generation of American youth and whose promise gave the whole world…

  • Blood-Lines That Waver South: Hybridity, the “South,” and American Bodies Southern Quarterly Volume 41, Number 1 (Fall 2003) pages 39-52 Tace Hedrick, Associate Professor of English University of Florida In the paper I investigate a certain kind of imaginative response, especially on the part of mixed-race artists, to the prevalence of racialized discourses of modernity…

  • Place, scale and the racial claims made for multiracial children in the 1990 US Census Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 32, Issue 3 (March 2009) pages 522 – 547 Steven R. Holloway, Professor of Geography University of Georgia Richard Wright, Orvil E. Dryfoos Professor of Geography and Public Affairs and Geography Department Chair Dartmouth College…

  • Race and the “One Drop Rule” in the Post-Reconstruction South Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2009-03-17 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Many people, perhaps most, think of “race” as an objective reality. Historically, however, racial categorization has been unstable, contradictory, and arbitrary. Consider the term “passing.” Most of…

  • Kilombismo, Virtual Whiteness, and the Sorcery of Color Journal of Black Studies Volume 34, Number 6 (2004) pages 861-880 DOI: 10.1177/0021934704264009 Elisa Larkin Nascimento Afro-Brazilian Studies and Research Institute This article explores the legacy and current presence of racism in Brazil, particularly their unique expression in the juxtaposition of the miscegenation ideology of nonracism with…

  • A conversation with Victoria E. Bynum, author of The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies University of North Carolina Press April 2010 Victoria E. Bynum, author of The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies, discusses three Unionist strongholds in the South, Q: There seems no…

  • Black History Month play explores interracial issues Orlando Sentinal 2010-02-20 Rosalind Jennings, Special To The Orlando Sentinel Leesburg, [Florida] – Dolores Sandoval’s paternal grandmother was an African slave on a plantation, and that ancestor’s father was the white plantation owner. So she was mixed racially – an “octoroon,” which is one-eighth African. “Her father owned…

  • Socially Embedded Identities: Theories, Typologies, and Processes of Racial Identity among Black/White Biracials Sociological Quarterly Volume 43 Issue 3, (2002) Pages 335 – 356 DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2002.tb00052.x David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Illinois at Chicago Current research on racial identity…

  • Public Categories, Private Identities: Exploring Regional Differences in the Biracial Experience Social Science Research Volume 35, Issue 3, September 2006 Pages 555-576 David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Empirical research on multiraciality and the development of richer models of racial identity have increased in the last decade. Increased attention…

  • What Does “Black” Mean? Exploring the Epistemological Stranglehold of Racial Categorization Critical Sociology Vol. 28, No. 1-2 (2002) pages 101-121 DOI: 10.1177/08969205020280010801 David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Illinois at Chicago The “check all that apply” approach to race on the…