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  • Ellen Craft: A New American Opera

    Ellen Craft: A New American Opera 8th Annual New York City International Fringe Festival 2004-08-13 through 2004-08-29 Lyrics by Sherry Boone Music: Sean Jeremy Palmer Book: Sherry Boone and Sean Jeremy Palmer Ellen Craft: A New American Opera is based on true events of a half -white, half-black womans harrowing escape from slavery disguised as…

  • Belonging to Britain

    Belonging to Britain The Munk Centre for International Studies University of Toronto 2008-11-14 Video Length: 00:46:36 Hazel V. Carby, Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies Yale University In her lecture, “Belonging to Britain”, Hazel Carby looks at the historic relationship between England and Jamaica, including the history of the slave…

  • Brown Babies in Britain

    Brown Babies in Britain Radcliffe Quarterly Winter 2007 Dean’s Lecture Series Julia Hanna When white British women met black servicemen during World War II, mixed-race children sometimes resulted from their relationships. In her November 2 [2007] Dean’s Lecture, Hazel V. Carby addressed issues of race and class by drawing on scholarship and personal experience as…

  • Mixed race, mixed racism and mental health

    Mixed race, mixed racism and mental health (Sponsored by the National Mental Health Development Unit) Thursday, 2009-10-29, The Kings Fund, Central London People in Harmony is offering a rare opportunity to hear from a range of experts about the impact of mental health on young people and families of mixed race. The keynote speakers will…

  • The Sociological Significance of President Barack Obama

    The Sociological Significance of President Barack Obama The American Sociological Association Mini-Symposium San Francisco, California 2009-08-08 through 2009-08-09 The historic campaign and election of Barack Obama constitutes a compelling and timely context for examining the program theme. In response, the 2009 ASA Program Committee and ASA President Patricia Hill Collins have organized a mini-symposium, a…

  • Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880

    Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880 Department Colloquium Series University of Washington, Department of Sociology Savery Hall 2009-10-06 15:30 PDT (Local Time) Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor University of Oregon Much of the literature within sociology regarding mixed-race populations focuses…

  • What Are You? The Changing Face of America with Kip Fulbeck

    What Are You? The Changing Face of America with Kip Fulbeck National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) 2010 Annual Conference Dates: 2010-02-24 through 2010-02-26 Moscone Convention Center West San Francisco, California, USA Adapt, Survive, Thrive: Unleashing the Superpowers Within Kip Fulbeck, Professor of Performative Studies, Video University of California, Santa Barbara Friday, 2010-02-26 13:30 –…

  • Our Problems with Race: Addressing Biological Versus Social Definitions

    Our Problems with Race: Addressing Biological Versus Social Definitions Appalachian State University Blue Ridge Ballroom PSU Wednesday, 2009-10-28 19:00 EDT (Local Time)                                    Joseph L. Graves, Jr, Dean of University Studies and Professor of Biological Sciences North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University What does evolution tell us about race and what are we taught to…

  • I’m not White but You Treat Me that way: The Role of Racial Ambiguity in Interracial Interactions

    I’m not White but You Treat Me that way: The Role of Racial Ambiguity in Interracial Interactions SPSP 2010 The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2010-01-28 through 2010-01-30 Las Vegas, Nevada Jessica D. Remedios University of Toronto Alison L. Chasteen University of Toronto Interracial interactions are complicated by concerns…

  • Different prejudices toward different types of interracial couples: Examining alternative explanations

    Different prejudices toward different types of interracial couples: Examining alternative explanations SPSP 2010 The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2010-01-28 through 2010-01-30 Las Vegas, Nevada Stephen A. Mistler Arizona State University Angela G. Pirlott Arizona State University Steven L. Neuberg Arizona State University Between 1992 and 2000, the prevalence…