Category: United States

  • Seeking Interviewees for Research on Mixed Heritage Asian American Mothers 2013-03-17 Brian DeGuzman San Francisco State University I am an Asian American Studies M.A. student at San Francisco State University and I am looking for interviewees for my research on mixed heritage Asian American mothers. I am specifically looking for mixed Asian American mothers who…

  • The Mulatto to His Critics Eugenical News Volume VII (7), Number 8 (August, 1922) page 100 Joseph S. Cotter, Jr., gives this answer to the critics of the mulatto: “Ashamed of my race? And of what race am I? I am many in one. Through my veins there flows the blood Of Red Man, Black…

  • While the William Shatner era of Star Trek isn’t exactly the first thing that springs to mind as a predecessor of the “It Gets Better” anti-bullying movement, Buzzfeed’s got an excerpt from the advice pages of a 1968 teen magazine called FaVE displays Leonard Nimoy’s sensitivity to the plight of one particular young woman.

  • In “Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses,” Betsy Erkkilä argues that it is through the historical and psychological dramas of blood as a marker of violence, or race, or sex, or kinship that Americans have struggled over the meanings of democracy, citizenship, culture, national belonging, and the idea of America itself as it was constituted and…

  • Demographic Demagoguery: Gregory Rodriguez’s views on race and the census just don’t add up MixedRaceStudies.org 2011-04-08 Steven F. Riley Gregory Rodriguez’s editorial titled “President Obama: Black and more so” or “President Obama: At odds with clear demographic trends toward multiracial pride” in the April 4, 2011 edition of the Los Angeles Times reveals the destructive hubris…

  • President Obama: Black and more so Los Angeles Times 2011-04-04 Gregory Rodriguez By checking ‘black’ as his race on the census form, President Obama is at odds with clear demographic trends toward multiracial pride. The number of Americans identifying as both white and black jumped 134% in 10 years. It could have been a historic…

  • Who’s Black, Who’s Not, and Who Cares? Uptown Magazine 2011-11-02 Yaba Blay, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania “What are you?” It’s a question I have never been asked. I am Black. Period. The color of my skin is reflective of my Ghanaian ancestry and by its dark tone, everyone I encounter…

  • Integration or Fragmentation? Racial Diversity and the American Future Demography Published online: 2013-02-26 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-013-0197-1 Daniel T. Lichter, Professor of Policy Analysis and Management and Sociology Cornell University Over the next generation or two, America’s older, largely white population will increasingly be replaced by today’s disproportionately poor minority children. All future growth will come from…

  • Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism by John Hoberman [Matt Wood Review] TriQuarterly: a journal of writing, art, and cultural inquiry from Northwestern University 2013-02-04 Matt Wood, Book Review Editor We’ve heard the statistics on black and white mortality rates in the United States. Black infants are up to three times…

  • “If I’m lucky enough to have children, I won’t tell them that Barack Obama was America’s first black president.”