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  • Families on the color-line: patrolling borders and crossing boundaries

    Families on the color-line: patrolling borders and crossing boundaries Race and Society Volume 5, Issue 2, 2002 Pages 139-161 DOI: 10.1016/j.racsoc.2004.01.001 Erica Chito-Childs, Associate Professor of Sociology Hunter College, City University of New York Multiracial couples and families are becoming increasingly more common, yet opposition to these relationships still exists even if it is often…

  • Racial identity and the spatial assimilation of Mexicans in the United States

    Racial identity and the spatial assimilation of Mexicans in the United States Social Science Research Volume 21, Issue 3 (September 1992) pages 235-260 DOI: 10.1016/0049-089X(92)90007-4 Douglas S. Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs Princeton University Nancy A. Denton, Professor of Sociology Center for Social and Demographic Analysis State University of New…

  • I wouldn’t, But You Can: Attitudes toward Interracial Relationships

    I wouldn’t, But You Can: Attitudes toward Interracial Relationships Social Science Research Published online: 2011-11-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.11.007 Melissa R. Herman, Visiting Researcher of the Research Unit Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung also Assistant Professor, Sociology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Mary E. Campbell, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Iowa Using the 2008 Cooperative Congressional Election…

  • An Immigrant Neighborhood: Interethnic and Interracial Encounters in New York before 1930

    How the crowded neighborhoods of New York’s Lower East Side gave rise to cross-racial and cross ethnic bonds before 1930

  • CLS 413: Comparative Studies in Theme: Generation, Degeneration, Miscegenation

    CLS 413: Comparative Studies in Theme: Generation, Degeneration, Miscegenation Northwestern University Winter 2012 César Braga-Pinto, Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies In this seminar we will discuss how and why late 19th-century and early 20th-century fiction often represented a crisis in models of biological reproduction. We will investigate how anxieties regarding miscegenation and degeneration impacted this…

  • Rejoining the Parts: A Conversation with Jane Lazarre About Race, Fiction, American History and Her New Novel, Inheritance

    Rejoining the Parts: A Conversation with Jane Lazarre About Race, Fiction, American History and Her New Novel, Inheritance Tenured Radical The Chronicle of Higher Education 2011-11-15 Claire Potter, Professor of History and American Studies Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Jane Lazarre is a writer of fiction, memoir and poetry who has published many books, beginning with…

  • Inheritance, A Novel

    Inheritance, A Novel Hamilton Stone Editions 2011-11-15 308 pages 9 x 6 x 1 inches ISBN: 978-0-9801786-8-5 Jane Lazarre Jane Lazarre’s compelling novel explores America’s mixed racial history through the lives of four families whose fates are intertwined across several generations from slavery to the present. Unflinching in its description of the horrors of slavery…

  • ENG 215: Beyond Black and White: Exploring “American” Identities

    ENG 215: Beyond Black and White: Exploring “American” Identities Saint Joseph’s University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2011-2012   What does race mean in contemporary writing? How does it intersect with social class? What does it mean to be “multiracial” or “biracial”? What does it mean to be “American”? This course considers a variety of writing that explores…

  • Old Whine, New Vassals: Are Diaspora and Hybridity Postmodern Inventions?

    Old Whine, New Vassals: Are Diaspora and Hybridity Postmodern Inventions? Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, Visiting Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Duke University Chapter in: New Ethnicities, Old Racisms? (pages 181-204) Zed Books May 1999 253 pages ISBN-10: 185649652X; ISBN-13: 978-1856496520 Edited by: Phil Cohen, Emeritus Professor University of East London The recent bag…

  • Students Break Out of Fixed-Race Box

    Students Break Out of Fixed-Race Box Teaching Tolerance: A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center 2011-11-15 Pamela Cytrynbaum, Instructor of Journalism Northwestern University My journalism students were brainstorming topics for their final story projects. I urged them to come up with compelling ideas that relate to their experiences but that push deeply into national…