Category: United States

  • “A Universe of Many Worlds”: An Interview with Ruth Ozeki MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 38, Issue 3 (September 2013) pages 160-171 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlt028 Eleanor Ty, Professor of English and Film Studies Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada That’s what it felt like when I was growing up, like I was a…

  • Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas University of Toronto Press August 2013 272 pages Paper ISBN: 9780802095527 Cloth ISBN: 9780802098184 Edited by: Maximilian C. Forte, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Who is an Indian? This is possibly the oldest question facing…

  • Researching the Experiences of Multiracial People Having their Racial Group Membership Denied by Others University of Maryland, College Park Department of Psychology 2013-08-22 Marisa Franco, Doctoral Student Counseling Psychology Greetings! My name is Marisa Franco and I am a doctoral student in counseling psychology at the University of Maryland. I am conducting a survey examining…

  • What the ‘Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful’ Meme Really Means The Huffington Post 2013-08-22 Marcia Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor of Communications University of Southern California, Annenberg The New York Times’ Motherlode blog recently posted a thought-provoking article called, “Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful.” The author’s experiences as a parent to a racially-ambiguous mixed…

  • Notorious in the Neighborhood with Joshua Rothman, Ph.D. Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2013-08-22, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2013-08-23, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Joshua D. Rothman, Professor of History and African American Studies University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families Across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861 Laws…

  • Fix the Census’ Archaic Racial Categories The New York Times 2013-08-21 Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs Columbia University Also former director of the U.S. Census Bureau from 1998 to 2001 and author of What Is Your Race? The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans (Princeton University Press, 2013) Starting in 1790, and…

  • Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South University of Nebraska Press 2013 232 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-7154-8 Melissa Schrift, Associate Professor of Anthropology East Tennessee State University Appalachian legend describes a mysterious, multiethnic population of exotic, dark-skinned rogues called Melungeons who rejected the outside world and lived in the remote, rugged mountains…

  • Plessy v. Ferguson: Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America University Press of Kansas April 2012 224 pages 5-1⁄2 x 8-1⁄2 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-1846-0 Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-1847-7 Williamjames Hull Hoffer, Associate Professor of History Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep…

  • Gwinnett Street Colored Folks Are Talking About the Marriage of the White Man to the Octoroon The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Thursday, 1898-03-31 page 2, column 5 Source: Brooklyn Public Library’s Brooklyn Collection The colored folks in Gwinnett Street are talking to-day of the marriage which took place two weeks ago. Miss Zoe Ball, a vocalist…

  • Albert Murray, author who drew on the free-wheeling spirit of jazz, dies at 97 The Washington Post 2013-08-19 Adam Bernstein, Reporter Albert Murray, a self-described “riff-style intellectual” whose novels, nonfiction books and essays drew on the free-wheeling spirit of jazz and whose works underscored how black culture and the blues in particular were braided into…