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  • AP Exclusive: Many resist census race labels

    AP Exclusive: Many resist census race labels Miami Herald 2012-01-31 Hope Yen, Associated Press WASHINGTON — When the 2010 census asked people to classify themselves by race, more than 21.7 million – at least 1 in 14 – went beyond the standard labels and wrote in such terms as “Arab,” “Haitian,” “Mexican” and “multiracial.” The…

  • Passing: How posing as white became a choice for many black Americans

    Passing: How posing as white became a choice for many black Americans Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2003-10-26 Monica L. Haynes, Post-Gazette Staff Writer The young unkempt woman still in her pajamas shuffled into her 8 a.m. college psychology class and sat down next to Barbara Douglass. “I’m sure glad there are no niggers in this…

  • Has ‘whiteness studies’ run its course at colleges?

    Has ‘whiteness studies’ run its course at colleges? Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-01-30 Alex P. Kellogg, Special to CNN Among university departments that study African-American history, Latin American or Chicano cultures and all varieties of ethnicities and nationalities, there’s a relatively obscure field of academic inquiry: whiteness…

  • The Loving Story – HBO Screening Event

    The Loving Story – HBO Screening Event Multiracial Network Blog 2012-01-24 It is a rare occasion for Marc Johnston, MRN Chair, and Heather Lou, MRN Incoming Chair, to find themselves in the same city outside of the annual ACPA Convention. So what do these two fun-loving higher education and student affairs administrators choose to do…

  • Don Lemon: Legacy of ‘one drop’ rule inspires search for family history

    Don Lemon: Legacy of ‘one drop’ rule inspires search for family history Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-01-29 Don Lemon, Anchor CNN Newsroom This is  final installment of  a three-part series about the (1)ne Drop Project. Read Don Lemon’s column, “It only takes one drop,” and Yaba Blay’s…

  • Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa Honors A West Coast Black Seminole Leader

    Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa Honors A West Coast Black Seminole Leader Indian Voices January 2012 pages 7 & 11 Dr. Bruce Twyman On October 28th, 2011 Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa honored the Native American community of Southern California by hosting the cities’ annual American Indian Heritage Month celebration at city hall. A noteworthy and…

  • Don’t Forget the Accent Mark: A Memoir

    Raised in a Mexican home in an Anglo neighborhood, David Sánchez was fair-skinned and fluent in Spanish and English when he entered kindergarten. None of this should have had any influence on the career path he chose, but at certain moments it did. With the birth of the Chicano Movement and affirmative action, a different…

  • Opinion: What does Blackness look like?

    Opinion: What does Blackness look like? Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-01-21 Yaba Blay, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Editor’s note: Yaba Blay, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of Africana studies who teaches courses at Lafayette College. Her research focuses on black identity, with…

  • Crossing the color line

    Crossing the color line Baylor University August 2011 107 pages Alisha Hash A Thesis Approved by the Department of History Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Baylor University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Miscegenation, a word not coined until the Civil War, has been an intrinsic part…

  • Sui Sin Far / Edith Maude Eaton: A Literary Biography

    This first full-length biography of the first published Asian North American fiction writer portrays both the woman and her times.