Category: United States

  • From the Golden Gate to the Green Mountains: A Hapa Educational Autobiography and Meta-Critical Reflection University of Vermont October 2012 65 pages Noelle Brassey A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the Graduate College of The University of Vermont In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts Specializing in English…

  • This paper builds a Critical Race Theory approach to consider how mixed-race American Indian college students conform to, or resist, dominant black/non-black ideology. Current research on multiracials in the U.S. lacks the perspectives of mixed-race American Indians on the heightened disputes of “Indianness,” tribal enrollment, and tribal self-determination.

  • Colorism: The War at Home Ebony Magazine News & Views 2013-02-20 Chris Williams Dr. Yaba Blay discusses the history of ‘the color complex’ and how we can work to destroy it The “color complex” has remains a source of great controversy and pain in the African American community and across much of the African Diaspora.…

  • Interview with PhD Student Karla Lucht: Children’s Literature about Mixed-Race Asian Americans/Canadians The Center for Children’s Books Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign February 2013 Tad Andracki, CCB Outreach Coordinator “Everyone deserves to see themselves represented in a book. And a good book at that.” GSLIS doctoral student Karla…

  • Possibilities Abound in a Nation That Is Diverse, CNN Journalist Says Yale News 2009-11-20 Susan Gonzalez When CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien was growing up, her mother in­structed her never to let anyone tell her that she wasn’t black or Hispanic because of her mixed ethnic and racial heritage. So, when she was asked to identify…

  • US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey on the legacy of the Civil War The Washington Post 2013-01-30 Ron Charles One hundred and fifty years later, Americans are still fighting the Civil War, US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey said at the Library of Congress on Wednesday. The field of battle is now historical memory, and gatling guns…

  • Beyond Black and White: When Going Beyond May Take Us Out of Bounds Journal of Black Studies Volume 44, Number 2 (March 2013) pages 158-181 DOI: 10.1177/0021934712471533 Katerina Deliovsky, Assistant Professor of Sociology Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario Tamari Kitossa, Assistant Professor of Sociology Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario This article examines a selection of…

  • ‘Romance of Race’ reveals rich cultural history BGSU News Bowling Green, Ohio Thursday, 2013-02-14 A new book by Dr. Jolie Sheffer is further confirmation that one should never doubt the power of the pen. “The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1890-1930,” published in January by Rutgers University Press, explains…

  • Crossing the Color Line: Race, Parenting, and Culture Rutgers University Press August 1994 215 pages Cloth ISBN 0-8135-2105-X Paperback ISBN 0-8135-2374-5 Maureen T. Reddy, Professor of English Rhode Island College Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. On Lines and Bridges 2. Starting Out 3. “Why Do White People Have Vaginas?” 4. “One Drop of Black Blood” 5.…

  • Mixed-Race Studies: Misstep or the next step for Ethnic Studies in a blending nation? Portland State University McNair Research Journal Volume 7, 2013 25 pages Jennifer E. Robe Portland State University In January of 2011, The New York Times reported that 2010 U.S. Census data shows that younger generations are self-reporting their racial identity as…