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  • In the Shadow of Her Ancestry: The New Tragic Mulatta

    In the Shadow of Her Ancestry: The New Tragic Mulatta North Carolina State University, Raleigh 2004 60 pages Vonda Marie Easterling A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of North Carolina State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts This thesis examines the plight of the infamous tragic…

  • Sharing Outsider Status and a Style of Coping

    Sharing Outsider Status and a Style of Coping The New York Times 2012-05-25 Jodi Kantor The United States quietly passed a milestone this spring, mostly lost amid the clamor of the presidential race: for the first time, neither party’s candidate is a white Protestant. The contenders are both from outsider groups that were once persecuted,…

  • The Myth of Majority-Minority America

    The Myth of Majority-Minority America Slate 2012-05-22 Matthew Yglesias, Business and Economics Correspondent It’s rare that a Census Bureau press release dominates the front pages, but last week’s headline “Most Children Younger Than 1 Are Minorities, Census Reports” was the thrilling exception. The shortage of white Anglo babies, the press was eager to tell us,…

  • Melungeon DNA Study Reveals Ancestry, Upsets ‘A Whole Lot Of People’

    Melungeon DNA Study Reveals Ancestry, Upsets ‘A Whole Lot Of People’ The Associated Press 2012-05-24 Travis Loller Jack Goins poses with a photo dated to have been taken in 1898 of his step-great-great grandfather George Washington Goins, who died in 1817, left, and great-great grandmother, Susan Minor-Goins who died in 1813 at the Hawkins County…

  • Race and Ethnicity in “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” and “The Rise of David Levinsky”: The Performative Difference

    Race and Ethnicity in “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” and “The Rise of David Levinsky”: The Performative Difference MELUS Volume 29, Numbers 3/4, (Autumn-Winter, 2004), Pedagody, Canon, Context: Toward a Redefinition of Ethnic American Literary Studies pages 307-321 Catherine Rottenberg, Assistant Professor Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics and the Gender Studies Program Ben-Gurion…

  • The Well-Being of Children Living With Interethnic Parents: Are They at a Disadvantage?

    The Well-Being of Children Living With Interethnic Parents: Are They at a Disadvantage? Journal of Family Issues Volume 33, Number 7 (July 2012) pages 898-919 DOI: 10.1177/0192513X11420938 Jennifer Pearce-Morris Department of Sociology Pennsylvania State University Valarie King, Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Human Development & Family Studies Director Pennsylvania State University An increasing number of…

  • We the Animals, A Novel

    Three brothers tear their way through childhood— smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn—he’s Puerto Rican, she’s white—and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes…

  • When a Boy Found a Familiar Feel in a Pat of the Head of State

    A copy of the photo hangs in the Philadelphia family’s living room with several others taken that day. Mr. Philadelphia, now in Afghanistan for the State Department, said: “It’s important for black children to see a black man as president. You can believe that any position is possible to achieve if you see a black…

  • Breaking the Race Barrier

    Breaking the Race Barrier 360 Magazine Ithica College 2012-05-02 Danielle Torres “I’m Puerto Rican.” That’s usually what I say when people ask a second time where I am from. The first time someone asks me that question I usually say, “I’m from New York.” Then the person rephrases the question, “What are you? What is…

  • Miscegenation and Acculturation in the Narragansett Country of Rhode Island, 1710-1790

    The histories of most New England states view blacks as a strange, foreign people enslaved in southern states, whom New Englanders rescued first by forming colonization and abolitionist societies and later by fighting a Civil War to free them. The existence of a black population in New England as early as the seventeenth century has…