Category: United States

  • An Overview of the Event: Jean Toomer and Politics at the 2012 MLA Gino Michael Pellegrini: Education, Amalgamation, Race, Class & Solidarity 2012-01-12 Gino Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California This is my general overview of the “Jean Toomer and Politics” special session roundtable at the 2012 MLA Annual Convention.…

  • Exploring the lived experience of biracial identity development in males of late adolescence and emerging adulthood Northern Illinois University 2010 239 pages Publication Number: AAT 3404842 ISBN: 9781124023625 Amy Kane-Williamson A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE DOCTOR OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF COUNSELING, ADULT AND HIGHER…

  • Color and Cultural Identity BlogTalkRadio Bruce Hurwitz Presents 2012-01-12, 18:00Z (13:00 EST, 10:00 PST) Bruce Hurwitz, Host Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Ph.D. Forum introduces listeners to doctoral and post-doctoral students and their cutting-edge research in the arts, sciences, or humanities. As part of our Ph.D. Forum, I will be joined by Marcia…

  • What Does the Brazilian Census Tell Us About Race? Psychology Today 2011-12-06 Jefferson Fish, Ph.D. Problems with Brazilian and U.S. census data on race. In 2010 I posted a six-part series on the U. S. census and race (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). In it I pointed out numerous changes in race categories and…

  • “African and Cherokee by Choice”: Race and Resistance under Legalized Segregation American Indian Quarterly Volume 22, Numbers 1/2 (Winter – Spring, 1998) pages 203-229 Laura L. Lovett, Associate Professor of History University of Massachusetts, Amherst Zora Neale Hurston once boasted that she was “the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s…

  • The American Negro Science Magazine Volume 69, Number 1787 (1929-03-29) pages 337-341 DOI: 10.1126/science.69.1787.337 Robert J. Terry (1871-1966), Professor of Anatomy [See: The Robert J. Terry Anatomical Skeletal Collection] Washington University Medical School, St. Louis Under the comprehensive title chosen, it is my intention to discuss a single problem fundamental to studies of the colored…

  • Multiracial identity development: developmental correlates and themes among multiracial adults Ohio State University 1997 111 pages Jessica Lyn Adams A Dissertation  Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for The Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of the Ohio State University This study examined some of the common experiences that have been…

  • Oscar James Dunn: A Case Study in Race & Politics in Reconstruction Louisiana University of New Orleans December 2011 296 pages Brian Mitchell A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Studies The study of…

  • Health in Black and White: Debates on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in Brazil University of California, San Diego 2011 320 pages Publication Number: AAT 3458492 ISBN: 9781124703657 Anna Pagano A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology In 2006, the Brazilian Health Council approved a…

  • The Black List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Eigth and F Streets, NW Washington, D.C. Open daily: 11:30-19:00 ET 2011-10-28 through 2012-04-22 Curator: Ann Shumard Historian: David C. Ward   Portraits by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders — Individual prints are Epson inkjet prints, 147.3 x 111.8 cm (58 x 44 in.) What is…