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  • How Will Barack Obama Fill Out His Census Form?: The Future of “Miscegenation” in America

    How Will Barack Obama Fill Out His Census Form?: The Future of “Miscegenation” in America FSB Media 2009 Rich Benjamin The President says publicly that he is “African-American.”But will he check “black” or “two or more races” on his 2010 Census form? My parents, two dark-skinned blacks, married in 1967, a year when miscegenation —…

  • Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

    Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Clarion Books an Imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2004-05-24 224 pages Trim Size: 5.50 x 8.25 Hardcover ISBN-13/EAN: 9780618439294 ; $15.00 Hardcover ISBN-10: 0618439293 Gary D. Schmidt, Professor of English Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan Winner of the Newbery Honor and Printz Honor. It only takes a few hours…

  • Malaga Island’s place in Maine history preserved

    Malaga Island’s place in Maine history preserved The Times Record Published: 2009-08-18, 18:08Z Seth Koenig, Times Record Staff PHIPPSBURG — The site of perhaps the most striking case of racial injustice in Maine history was the focus of a Saturday ceremony aimed at preserving the land and its lessons for future generations. Malaga Island, off…

  • Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

    Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold WMPG-FM (Portland, Maine) and The Salt Institute 2009 Rob Rosenthal, Radio Producer Kate Philbrick, Photographer WMPG-FM, in collaboration with the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, announces the premier of “Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold”, a radio and photo documentary recounting this infamous event and its impact on several…

  • Keeping up with the Joneses

    …Like many families of mixed ancestry and interracial families in the Northeast, the Joneses seemed to live in an ambiguous space in the American system of racial classification.  They seemed to be neither denying nor actively claiming a black racial identity.  Sociologists of the time and current historians have documented a number of cases—indeed a…

  • A Question of Blood, Race, and Politics

    A Question of Blood, Race, and Politics Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Volume 61, Number 4 (2006) pages 456-491 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrl003 Michael G. Kenny, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia This article explores the political and intellectual context of a controversy arising from a proposal made…

  • Two or Three Spectacular Mulatas and the Queer Pleasures of Overidentification

    Two or Three Spectacular Mulatas and the Queer Pleasures of Overidentification Camera Obscura Volume 23, Number 1 67 (2008) pages 113-143 DOI: 10.1215/02705346-2007-026 Hiram Perez, Assistant professor of English Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Building on feminist and queer scholarship on the relationship of film spectatorship to subjectivity, this essay conjectures subaltern spectatorships of the…

  • Race representation in this year’s Common Book

    Race representation in this year’s Common Book University of Washington News Laboratory Department of Communication December 2009 Kaetlyn Cordingley UW News Lab Each year, First Year Programs chooses a book as a means to bind the incoming freshman class together. This year’s book was Barack Obama’s “Dreams from My Father.” Coincidentally, on the same evening…

  • Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience

    With a roster of acclaimed fiction writers, Mixed shatters expectations of what it means to be multiracial.

  • “There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama”: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism

    “There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama”: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Harvard University February 2010 Working Paper 68 pages Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University Vesla Weaver, Assistant Professor The Woodrow Wilson Department of…