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  • In the Mix: Issue of Mixed Race Stirs Controversy for Census [Interview with Ralina L. Joseph]

    In the Mix: Issue of Mixed Race Stirs Controversy for Census [Interview with Ralina L. Joseph] International Examiner Volume 32, Number 2 2010-01-21 Yayoi Lena Winfrey A highly anticipated event for mixed-race people takes place this year. Although it may seem officious and routine for most, the upcoming U.S. Census is actually an exciting undertaking…

  • The Color of Testamentary Freedom

    The Color of Testamentary Freedom Southern Methodist University Law Review Volume 62 p. 1783 2009 Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Wills that prioritize the interests of nontraditional families over collateral heirs test courts’ dedication to observing the posthumous wishes of testators. Collateral heirs who object to will provisions that redraw the…

  • Slaves in the Family: Testamentary Freedom and Interracial Deviance

    Slaves in the Family: Testamentary Freedom and Interracial Deviance 2008 50 pages Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University This Article addresses the deviance of interracial sexuality acknowledged in testamentary documents. The language of wills calls into question the authority of probate and family law by forcing issues of deviance into the public…

  • Multiracial Identity and Affirmative Action

    Multiracial Identity and Affirmative Action Asian Pacific American Law Journal University of California, Los Angeles Volume 12, Fall 2006 – Spring 2007 32 pages Nancy Leong, Assistant Professor of Law Sturm College of Law, Denver University The classification of multiracial individuals has long posed a challenge in a number of legal contexts, and the affirmative…

  • Blurring Racial and Ethnic Boundaries in Asian American Families: Asian American Family Patterns, 1980-2005

    Blurring Racial and Ethnic Boundaries in Asian American Families: Asian American Family Patterns, 1980-2005 Journal of Family Issues Volume 31, Number 3 (March 2010) pages 280-300 DOI: 10.1177/0192513X09350870 Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo University of California, Santa Barbara Carl L. Bankston, Professor of Sociology Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana In this work, the authors use statistics from…

  • Review: “Black Gal Swing”: Color, Class, and Category in Globalized Culture [Review of works by Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, Arthur K. Spears, and Rainier Spencer]

    Review: “Black Gal Swing”: Color, Class, and Category in Globalized Culture [Review of works by Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, Arthur K. Spears, and Rainier Spencer] American Anthropologist Volume 103, Issue 1 (March 2001) pages 208-211 DOI: 10.1525/aa.2001.103.1.208 Fred J. Hay, Professor and Librarian of the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection Library Appalachian State University Scattered Belongings: Cultural Paradoxes…

  • Races: Passing

    Greying, blue-eyed Walter White, for 16 years executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has a skin so light that he frequently has to explain that he is, in deed, a Negro. Last week, in the Saturday Review of Literature, Propagandist White talked openly about a subject many Negroes are…

  • Half vs. Double: Hybrid Mathematics

    Half vs. Double: Hybrid Mathematics Column: Little Momo in the Big Apple Discover Nikkei: Japanese Migrans and Their Descendants 2008-03-28 Simone Momoye Fujita My mother is Japanese American, and my father is African American. According to this equation, most would assert that this fact makes me exactly one-half Asian and one-half Black, right? I whole-heartedly…

  • The Perils of Compartmentalization

    The Perils of Compartmentalization Columbia Daily Spectator New York, New York Friday, 2008-09-26 Dennis Yang Teachers College When I arrived from California as an incoming graduate student at Teachers College, one of the first things I attempted to find was a large-scale supermarket—a task that proved to be more difficult than I had anticipated. Without…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Melissa Harris-Lacewell

    Faculty Spotlight: Melissa Harris-Lacewell CAAS News Center for African American Studies Princeton University Spring 2008 Newsletter Pages 6-7 Dara-Lyn Shrager Melissa Harris-Lacewell smiles broadly when asked about Senator Barack Obama’s run for the democratic nomination for President. She is clearly a fan of both the man and his campaign.  As a former Chicagoan, who lived…