Category: United States

  • A Romance of (Miscege)Nations: Ann Sophia Stephens’ Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter (1839, 1860) Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory Volume 63, Number 1, Spring 2007 pages 1-25 DOI: 10.1353/arq.2007.0000 Yu-Fang Cho, Associate Professor of English; Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Miami University, Oxford, Ohio…

  • Mixed but not matched: Being mixed-race in America The Daily Evergreen Washington State University Pullman, Washington 2016-01-21 Sophia Stephens, Evergreen columnist The experience of being a mixed-race person in America can be described in one word – mixed. Depending on how a mixed-race person looks and is perceived, the experience of being an ethnic or…

  • Trans-racial Mothering: Double-Edged Privilege Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless Volume 17, Issue 1-2 (01 February 2008) pages 8-36 DOI: 10.1179/sdh.2008.17.1-2.8 Martha Satz, Assistant Professor of English Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas In this essay, the white adoptive mother of two bi-racial children reflects upon her thirty year experience of parenting to make several…

  • Jeff Chang in conversation with Adam Mansbach Kepler’s Books 1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, California 94025-4349 Tuesday, 2015-01-26, 19:30 PST (Local Time) It’s hard to express just how cool and important Who We Be is with words alone. Jeff seems to share this sentiment when it comes to a cultural history of the idea…

  • Obama as Text: The Crisis of Double-Consciousness Comparative American Studies Volume 10, Issue 2/3 (August 2012) pages 211-225 DOI: 10.1179/1477570012Z.00000000016 Simon Gikandi, Robert Schirmer Professor of English Princeton University The argument of this essay is that given the unique circumstances of his life, including his location in multiple spaces of cultural identity, Obama is an…

  • Multiracial in the Workplace: A New Kind of Discrimination? Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Fall 2015 Speaker Series presents: “Multiracial in the Workplace: A New Kind of Discrimination?” University of Pittsburgh 2015-12-10 Tanya Hernandez, Professor of Law Fordham University Welcome by: Larry Davis, Dean, Donald M. Henderson Professor, and Director Center for Race and Social…

  • Law is still black & white, not multiracial, Fordham prof says University Times: The Faculty & Staff Newspaper Since 1968 University of Pittsburgh 2016-01-07 Marty Levine Despite the fact that more people are identifying themselves as multiracial on the U.S. census, decisions in discrimination cases involving multiracial defendants still are primarily based on the presence…

  • A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia, by Richard Dunn The English Historical Review Volume 130, Issue 547, December 2015 pages 1575-1577 DOI: 10.1093/ehr/cev299 Trevor Burnard, Professor of History University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia, by…

  • When Skin Privilege and Racial Belonging Collide (not) Mixed (up): A Biracial Swirl in a Black and White World 2016-01-25 Shannon Luders-Manuel I’ve been thinking a lot about color / race privilege and why it’s such a hot button issue for the biracial community. In a Facebook group that I moderate, for mixed race women…

  • Review ‘Democracy in Black’ is a bracing call to action for African Americans The Los Angeles Times 2016-01-21 Kiese Laymon, Professor of English Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul (New York: Crown, 2016) “We laud our democratic virtues to others and represent…