Category: United States

  • Multiracial youths show similar vulnerability to peer pressure as whites University of Washington News 2012-07-10 Molly McElroy Researchers who studied a large sample of middle- and high-school students in Washington state found that mixed-race adolescents are more similar to their white counterparts than previously believed.   Experts have thought that multiracial adolescents, the fastest growing…

  • The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives Beacon Press 2012-08-21 288 pages 6″ x 9″ Cloth ISBN: 978-080706912-7 Devon W. Carbado, Professor of Law and African American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Donald Weise, Independent Scholar in African American history The first book about the runaway slave phenomenon written by fugitive slaves themselves.…

  • Lecture: Unbearable Blackness Terror and the Inhuman (2012-10-25 through 2012-10-27) Brown University Sidney Frank Hall, Room 220 185 Meeting St. 2012-10-25, 18:30 EDT (Local Time) Jared Sexton, Associate Professor, African American Studies; Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine The Department of Modern Culture and Media presents a lecture by Jared Sexton…

  • Students more likely to identify as multiracial The Stanford Daily: Breaking News from the Farm Since 1892 Stanford University 2012-10-24 Taylor Chambers Erika Roach ’13 identifies herself as “Blasian,” while Marcus Montanez-Leaks ’13 says he’s “Blexican.” These terms and others used to describe mixed race individuals are becoming more common in conversation and student groups…

  • Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Whiteness: A Revolution of Identity Politics in America Columbia Journal of Race and Law Volume 2, Issue 1 (2012) pages 149-166 Andrés Acebo An enduring motif in American political history reflects the nation’s slow progression towards inclusion of a once disenfranchised populace. In the annals of its jurisprudence, the…

  • Ocular Anthropomorphisms: Eugenics and Primatology at the Threshold of the “Almost Human” Social Text Volume 30, Number 3 112 pages 97-121 DOI: 10.1215/01642472-1597350 Megan H. Glick, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania From the moment Charles Darwin proposed Africa as the site of human origins, scientists and…

  • Biracial identity: trying to fit in The Daily Tar Heel University of North Carolina 2012-10-22 Averi Harper, Columnist You’re Hispanic, right? No? Well, are you Middle Eastern? No? Then what are you? Oh, that’s so interesting! The above is just a sample of the prodding questions that sometimes come with biracial or multiracial identity. Biracial…

  • Glenn Robinson—Dedicated to Erasing Hate & Mixing Cultures Mixed Race Radio Wednesday, 2012-10-24, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT, 17:00 BST) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Glenn Robinson, Creator/Owner Community Village Activist Glenn Robinson is an Irish, German, Dutch, English & Austrian American married to a Spanish & Indigenous Mexican American. They have two children and encourage…

  • Letter, W. A. Plecker to A. T. Shields. 9 May 1925. Typescript. Commonwealth of Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics Richmond, Virginia 1925-05-09 Source: Rockbridge County (Va.) Clerk’s Correspondence [Walter A. Plecker to A.T. Shields], 1912-1943. Local Government Records Collection, Rockbridge County Court Records. The Library of Virginia. 10-0477-003. In a letter to A.T. Shields, Walter…

  • The Choice The New Yorker 2012-10-22 The Editors The morning was cold and the sky was bright. Aretha Franklin wore a large and interesting hat. Yo-Yo Ma urged his frozen fingers to play the cello, and the Reverend Joseph E. Lowery, a civil-rights comrade of Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s, read a benediction that began with…