Category: United States

  • “This damned business of colour”: Passing in African American novels and memoirs Lehigh University 2005-04-28 230 pages Publication Number: AAT 3167071 ISBN: 9780542026218 Irina C. Negrea Presented to the Graduate and Research Committee of Lehigh University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English The topic of this dissertation is an analysis…

  • The headlines back in June, 2005, read “FDA approves a heart drug for African Americans”. The decision that gave the company NitroMed approval for its drug BiDil exclusively to a “racial group” represented a milestone in US drug policy. The decision ignited a debate that polarised the African American community, confounded proponents of personalised medicine,…

  • Making Race: Biology and the Evolution of the Race Concept in 20 Century American Thought Columbia University December 2008 309 pages Michael Yudell Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy under the Executive Committee of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences At the dawn of the 21st…

  • Obama as Anti-American: Visual Folklore in Right-Wing Forwarded E-mails and Construction of Conservative Social Identity Journal of American Folklore Volume 125, Number 496, Spring 2012 pages 177-203 DOI: 10.1353/jaf.2012.0018 Margaret Duffy, Associate Professor of Journalism University of Missouri Janis Teruggi Page George Washington University Rachel Young Missouri School of Journalism This paper investigates the group-building…

  • ‘Mutts like Me’: Multiracial Students’ Perceptions of Barack Obama Qualitative Sociology Volume 35, Number 2 (2012) pages 183-200 DOI: 10.1007/s11133-012-9226-4 Michael P. Jeffries, Assistant Professor of American Studies Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Existent sociological studies of multiracialism in the United States focus on identity construction, the cultural and legislative battle over multiracial categorization, and the…

  • Imagining Jefferson and Hemings in Paris TransAtlantica: American Studies Journal 1 | 2011 : Senses of the South / Référendums populaires 10 pages, 20 paragraphs Suzanne W. Jones, Professor of English University of Richmond In Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics, cultural critic bell hooks argues that “no one seems to know how to tell…

  • ‘Too black or not black enough’: Social identity complexity in the political rhetoric of Barack Obama European Journal of Social Psychology Volume 42, Issue 5, August 2012 pages 564–577 DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.1868 Martha Augoustinos, Professor of Psychology University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia Stephanie De Garis School of Psychology University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia The election of…

  • American Indian Identity and Blood Quantum in the 21st Century: A Critical Review Journal of Anthropology Volume 2011 (2011) Article ID 549521 9 pages DOI: 10.1155/2011/549521 Ryan W. Schmidt Department of Anthropology University of Montana Identity in American Indian communities has continually been a subject of contentious debate among legal scholars, federal policy-makers, anthropologists, historians,…

  • The Indians and the Metis: genealogical sources on Minnesota’s earliest settlers Minnesota History Magazine Volume 46, Number 7 (Fall 1979) pages 286-296 Virginia Rogers Editors Preface GENEALOGISTS have long hesitated to do research on Minnesota’s Indian and métis or mixed-blood population. The fact that Indian and related métis peoples participated in a largely ond culture may…

  • A Seminole Warrior Cloaked in Defiance Smithsonian Magazine October 2010 Owen Edwards A pair of woven, beaded garters reflects the spirit of Seminole warrior Osceola Infinity of nations,” a new permanent exhibition encompassing nearly 700 works of indigenous art from North, Central and South America, opens October 23 at the George Gustav Heye Center in…