Category: United States

  • Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age by Jonathan Kahn (review) Bulletin of the History of Medicine Volume 87, Number 4, Winter 2013 pages 708-709 DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2013.0067 Anne Pollock, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Culture Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Jonatha Kahn, Race in a…

  • NYC Mayor-Elect’s Family Reflects Rise of Intermarriage Voice of America 2013-12-17 Carolyn Weaver In 1959, only four percent of Americans approved of interracial marriage. Today, 87 percent do, according to a Gallup poll. President Barack Obama was born to such a marriage, and census figures show that the fastest growing demographic under 18 is children…

  • Landmark ’49 Film About Family Passing for White Recalled The Los Angeles Times 1989-07-25 Margaret Lillard The Associated Press KEENE, N.H. — For 12 years, Dr. Albert Johnston and his wife had a secret–a secret they kept from friends, neighbors, even their children. But in 1941, their secret came out–each was part black. The fair-skinned…

  • Thyra Johnston, 91, Symbol Of Racial Distinctions, Dies The New York Times 1995-11-29 Robert McG. Thomas, Jr. (1939-2000) Thyra Johnston, a blue-eyed fair-skinned New Hampshire homemaker who became a symbol of the silliness of racial distinctions when she and her husband announced that they were black, died on Nov. 22 at her home in Honolulu.…

  • Stanford historian re-examines practice of racial ‘passing’ Stanford News The Humanities at Stanford 2013-12-18 Nate Sloan, Doctoral Candidate in Musicology Stanford University In the margins of historical accounts and the dusty corners of family archives, Stanford history Professor Allyson Hobbs uncovers stories long kept hidden: those of African Americans who passed as white, from the…

  • Assimilation in Charles W. Chesnutt’s Works University of New Orleans 2013-05-17 41 pages Mary C. Harris A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Master of Arts In English Charles W. Chesnutt captures the essence of the Post Civil War…

  • Professor Mark Christian on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Episode: #233 – Professor Mark Christian Wednesday, 2011-11-16, 22:00Z (17:00 EST, 14:00 PST) Mark Christian, Professor…

  • Chesnutt’s Genuine Blacks and Future Americans MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 15, Number 3, Discovery: Research and Interpretation (Autumn, 1988) pages 109-119 SallyAnn H. Ferguson, Professor of English University of North Carolina, Greensboro Scholarship on novelist and short story writer Charles W. Chesnutt stagnates in recent years because his critics have failed to…

  • The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency Texas A&M University Press 2014-01-15 266 pages 6 x 9 7 b&w photos. 4 figs. 4 tables. Bib. Index. Unjacketed Cloth ISBN: 978-1-62349-042-3 Paper ISBN: 978-1-62349-043-0 Edited by: Justin S. Vaughn, Assistant Professor of Political Science Boise State University Jennifer R. Mercieca, Associate Professor Department of…

  • MXRS Podcast Episode 1: Lawrence-Minh Búi Davis and the Mixed Race Initiative Mixed Roots Stories 2013-12-10 Chandra Crudup, Host Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Host Mark R. Edwards, Host Lawrence-Minh Búi Davis, co-Editor-in-Chief Asian American Literary Review We are thrilled to launch Episode 1 of the MXRS Podcast – bringing you the story behind the stories. Our…