Category: United States

  • Questions the ramifications of multiracialism for progressive social change.

  • The Biracial and Multiracial Student Experience: A Journey to Racial Literacy SAGE Publications 2009-06-30 168 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781412975063 Hardcover ISBN: 9781412975056 Bonnie M. Davis What does it mean to be “in between”? As more biracial and multiracial students enter the classroom, educators have begun to critically examine the concept of race. Through compelling student…

  • The Negro: A Menace to American Civilization The Gorham Press 1907 281 pages Library of Congress: E185.61 .S38 R. W. Shufeldt, M.D. (1850-1934) Contents I. Man’s Place in Nature from a Biological Standpoint. II. The Ethnological Status of the Negro. III. The Introduction of the Negro into the United States.—The African Slave Trade. IV. Biological…

  • AfroPoP – A Lot Like You AfroPoP PBS Video Duration: (00:56:59) Premiere Date: 2013-01-22 Episode Expires: 2013-02-22 Eliaichi Kimaro, Director A bi-racial filmmaker returns to her father’s home tribe on Mount Kilomanjaro. Premieres January 22nd on the WORLD Channel. In this award-winning and very personal documentary a young woman probes her interracial roots to find…

  • A Code To Live By In Appalachia Transom 2013-01-30 Mary Helen Miller, Producer/Reporter WUTC, 88.1 FM University of Tennessee, Chattanooga with help from: Viki Merrick, Editor There may come a day when races are so blended as to be irrelevant, but not yet. For our first 2012 Transom Donor Fund piece, producer Mary Helen Miller…

  • The Silly Debate Over Whether Obama is Black or Mixed-Race The Huffington Post 2008-06-14 Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Political Analyst and Social Issues Commentator Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama gave the best answer to the question whether he’s black, mixed race or something in between. He recently told a Chicago fundraiser crowd that to some…

  • Hafu: The Film Hafu: The Film 2013-01-30 Megumi Nishikura, Director, Producer and Cinematographer Lara Perez Takagi, Director, Producer and Cinematographer Marcia Yumi Lise, Thematic Advisor Jilann Spitzmiller, Executive Producer Aika Miyake, Editor Winton White, Music Dear Friends, A belated happy new years to you! We have been quietly busy these past few months but have…

  • Race Relations in Virginia & Miscegenation in the South, 1776-1860 University of Massachusetts Press 1970 362 pages ISBN-10: 0870230506; ISBN-13: 978-0870230509 James Hugo Johnston (1891-1974), Professor of History University of Virginia Contents FOREWORD PREFACE PART I. THE RELATION OF THE NEGRO TO THE WHITE MAN IN VIRGINIA 1. Friendly Relations 2. Violent Relations 3. Free…

  • Recent Decisions: Constitutional Law: Miscegenation Laws Marquette Law Review Volume 48, Issue 4 (Spring 1965) pages 616-620 C. Michael Conter Constitutional Law: Miscegenation Laws: The defendants were convicted under section 798.05 of the Florida statutes, which prohibited nighttime cohabitation of the same room by a Negro and a white of different sexes. On appeal, their…

  • Race and Indigeneity in the Life of Elisha Apes Ethnohistory Volume 60, Number 1 (Winter 2013) pages 27-50 DOI: 10.1215/00141801-1816166 Nancy Shoemaker, Professor of History University of Connecticut This essay examines cultures of racial categorization in New England and New Zealand through the life of one migrant, Elisha Apes, the younger half-brother of the radical…