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  • James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the Passing Novel

    James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the Passing Novel American Literature Volume 84, Number 1 (March 2012) pages 1-29 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-1540932 Geoffrey Sanborn, Associate Professor of Literature Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Sanborn’s essay seeks to demonstrate that The Headsman, an overlooked 1833 novel by James Fenimore Cooper, is an allegory of racial passing. After…

  • SOC 240 – People of Mixed Descent

    SOC 240 – People of Mixed Descent University of San Francisco 2011-2012 This course examines the experiences of mixed race populations (mulattos, mestizos, mixed blood Native Americans, and Eurasians) in comparative perspective. Using these experiences, as well as sociological theories (assimilation, third culture, marginality, and multiculturalism), we study how race is a social and political…

  • Virginia Bastardy Laws: A Burdensome Heritage

    Virginia Bastardy Laws: A Burdensome Heritage William and Mary Law Review Volume 9, Issue 2 (1967) Article 8 pages 402-429 Dominik Lasok, Professor of Law University of Exeter The theory that British settlers brought with them as much of the common Law of England as was appropriate to their circumstances in the New World, propounded by…

  • The Founder Effect and Deleterious Genes

    The Founder Effect and Deleterious Genes American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 30, Issue 1 (January 1969) pages 55-60 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330300107 Frank B. Livingstone (1928-2005), Professor Emeritus of Biological Anthropology University of Michigan During the rapid growth of a population from a few founders, a single deleterious gene in a founder can attain an appreciable…

  • Tough lessons in CTC’s play about community destruction

    Tough lessons in CTC’s play about community destruction MPR News Minnesota Public Radio 2012-03-15 Nikki Tundel, Reporter St. Paul, Minn. — A century-old story of discrimination is the basis for a world premiere production opening Friday in Minneapolis. “Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy” is the Children’s Theatre Company’s adaption of the real-life events of…

  • The Republican primaries: Miscegenation and the South

    The Republican primaries: Miscegenation and the South The Economist 2012-03-13 OVER the weekend the Democratic-affiliated polling organisation Public Policy Polling (PPP) came out with a survey showing that 21% of likely Republican voters in Alabama, and 29% of likely Republican voters in Mississippi, think interracial marriage should be illegal. (It also found about half think…

  • Just Between Sisters: Gender, Race, Class, Sexuality, and Relationships of Mixed-Race Women and Girls (AMS) (HRJ) (GEN) (HUM) HUMN 7302

    Just Between Sisters: Gender, Race, Class, Sexuality, and Relationships of Mixed-Race Women and Girls (AMS) (HRJ) (GEN) (HUM) HUMN 7302 Southern Methodist University Fall 2012 Evelyn L. Parker, Associate Professor of Practical Theology In 1967 the US Supreme Court ruled state miscegenation laws unconstitutional. Instituted in 1691, the state laws sought to prevent sexual mixing…

  • Studs Terkel’s study of race in the US: 20 years on

    Studs Terkel’s study of race in the US: 20 years on The Guardian 2012-03-13 Gary Younge What have we learned in the two decades since the oral historian Studs Terkel published his classic book Race? In the introduction to a new edition, Gary Younge weighs up what has changed – and what hasn’t Cultures do…

  • Being mixed: Who claims a biracial identity?

    Being mixed: Who claims a biracial identity? Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 18, Number 1 (January 2012) pages 91-96 DOI: 10.1037/a0026845 Sarah S. M. Townsend, Visiting Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations and Postdoctoral Fellow Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Stephanie A. Fryberg, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Faculty in American…

  • Black identity in biracial Black/White people: A comparison of Jacqueline who refuses to be exclusively Black and Adolphus who wishes he were.

    Black identity in biracial Black/White people: A comparison of Jacqueline who refuses to be exclusively Black and Adolphus who wishes he were. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 7, Number 2 (May 2001) page 182-196 DOI: 10.1037//1099-9809.7.2.182 Angela R. Gillem Arcadia University Laura Renee Cohn Arcadia University Cambria Thorne Arcadia University Two biracial college…