Category: United States

  • Saint Augustine’s College senior’s documentary wins award at film festival Saint Augustine’s College, Raleigh, North Carolina Press Release 2010-10-19 LaToya Sutton, Communications Specialist Eric Barstow’s short documentary, “Bi/Racial Me,” won the “Best Short Documentary” award at the Urban Mediamakers Film Festival, held October. 14-17, [2010] in Norcross, Georgia The film was an official film selection festival.…

  • Mulatto Nation: An installation by Lezley Saar The List Gallery at Swarthmore College 2003-02-28 through 2003-03-30 Lezley Saar From: Mulattos at War: Battle of ‘Halfway’ Historian Lezley Saar, professor emerita from MU (Mulatto University) and a lifelong outspoken activist for the Mulatto Movement, traces the history of the Mulatto Nation from its bumpy beginnings to…

  • “My father is black and my mother is white and my brother is a vegetable.” When Emma Boudreaux’s older brother winds up in a coma after a freak accident, she loses her compass: only Bernie was able to navigate—if not always diplomatically—the terrain of their biracial identity. And although her father and brother are bound…

  • As Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has shown, being mixed race in America means balancing black and white identities

  • First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction.

  • Appropriating the One-Drop Rule: Family Guy on Reparations Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture Volume 7: Open Issue (2010) Jason Jones University of Washington The one-drop rule, or the notion that one drop of African blood renders a person black, once played a vital role in the expansion of the nineteenth-century American slave…

  • Colby Cosh: Obama’s family tree might have hung him from a limb National Post 2008-10-24 Colby Cosh Ever since Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination for the presidency, American political observers have been arguing endlessly over whether his race will be a net help or a hindrance to him at the polls November 4. Strangely,…

  • Inside the Color Line: Reading Biracialism in Twentieth Century American Culture State University of New York, Albany 2005 191 pages Publication ID: AAT 3181801 ISBN: 9780542221538 Habiba Ibrahim, Assistant Professor of English University of Washington A Dissertation Submitted to the University at Albany, State University of New York in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for…

  • CeCe Ridder is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Higher Education Administration at The University of Texas at Austin and is recruiting University of Texas at Austin students for a research study about Black-White Multiracial college students.  She is seeking registered students at UT Austin in the third or fourth year of study and have one parent…

  • Shades of Community and Conflict: Biracial Adults of African-American and Jewish-American Heritages The Wright Institute, Berkeley, California 1998 152 pages Publisher: Dissertation.com ISBN-10: 1581120249 ISBN-13: 9781581120240 Josyln C. Segal A dissertation submitted to the Write Institute Graduate School of Psychology in partial fulfullment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosphy in Psychology…