Mixed Race Studies

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  • Multiracial no longer boxed in by the Census

    Multiracial no longer boxed in by the Census USA Today 2010-03-02 Haya El Nasser Jennifer Harvey was raised by her white mother and white stepfather in what she calls “a Caucasian world.” Harvey never met her father but she knew he was black and Cuban. That made her Hispanic, white and black. “Blacks think I’m…

  • Reimagining The ‘Tragic Mulatto’ [Interview with Author Heidi W. Durrow]

    Reimagining The ‘Tragic Mulatto’ [Interview with Author Heidi W. Durrow] All Things Considered National Public Radio 2010-03-02 Michele Norris, Host All Things Considered Like so many children of mixed marriages, the author Heidi Durrow has often felt like she’s had to straddle two worlds. She is the daughter of a black serviceman and a white Danish…

  • NPR’s All Things Considered Interview with Heidi W. Durrow

    NPR’s All Things Considered Interview with Heidi W. Durrow All Things Considered National Public Radio 2010-03-02, 21:00 to 23:00Z Heidi W. Durrow Heidi W. Durrow, author of the new Bellwether Prize winning novel, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, is scheduled to be interviewed on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered today (Tuesday, March 2, 2010 between…

  • Lewis Explores Race During Unity Month

    Lewis Explores Race During Unity Month The Emory Wheel Volume 91, Number 22 2009-11-13 page 3 Pooja Dhruv, Staff Writer Elliott Lewis, former television news reporter and author of Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America, discussed current American racial issues during his keynote address for Unity Month on Wednesday. According to College sophomores Yan Chen…

  • CU professor helps author come alive: New [Ralph] Ellison book on sale

    CU professor helps author come alive: New [Ralph] Ellison book on sale CU Independent University of Colorado 2010-02-07 Kaely Moore Adam Bradley, a CU associate professor of English, and John Callahan, a professor of humanities at Lewis and Clark College, have come together after author Ralph Ellison’s death to produce unpublished work. Ellison’s novel “Invisible…

  • The Race Against Race [Book review of “What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America”]

    The Race Against Race [Book review of “What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America”] The New Republic 2010-01-29 Richard Posner “What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America” by Peggy Pascoe “Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell” by Paul A.…

  • Mixed-race Americans face wage discrimination

    Mixed-race Americans face wage discrimination New Scientist Magazine issue 2696 Science in Society 2009-02-22 Luckily for Barack Obama, the US president’s salary doesn’t depend on who gets elected. A study of racial discrimination in the US workplace suggests that mixed-race Americans  are discriminated against just as much as black people in terms of salary. Economist…

  • The Voices Project Screening and Discussion: Multi-Racial Identities, Part 1

    The Voices Project Screening and Discussion: Multi-Racial Identities, Part 1 Oregon State University Wednesday, 2010-03-03 12:00-13:00 PST (Local Time) Memorial Union Room: Journey Room Contact: Diane Davis OSU students, staff and faculty share their experiences and challenges of being multiracial at OSU and in life. They address issues such as their identity and when they…

  • Dominic Mhiripiri ’12: Please. Mr. Obama is not black

    Dominic Mhiripiri ’12: Please. Mr. Obama is not black The Brown Daily Herald 2010-02-03 Dominic Mhiripiri, Opinions Columnist Recently, the United States marked the first anniversary of Barack Obama’s historic ascent to the apex of American politics. For a candidate who electrified a whole generation of American youth and whose promise gave the whole world…

  • Blood-Lines That Waver South: Hybridity, the “South,” and American Bodies

    Blood-Lines That Waver South: Hybridity, the “South,” and American Bodies Southern Quarterly Volume 41, Number 1 (Fall 2003) pages 39-52 Tace Hedrick, Associate Professor of English University of Florida In the paper I investigate a certain kind of imaginative response, especially on the part of mixed-race artists, to the prevalence of racialized discourses of modernity…