Category: United States

  • This paper argues that the visually mixed-race person has a certain direct ability to challenge the binary and its racist logic. Furthermore, this paper goes on to offer a unique interpretation of where power for working against a racially oppressive system lies within critical mixed-race theory.

  • Who Will You Let Me Be? Race, Ethnicity, and Me: Autobiographical Reflections by Trinity University Students Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas Fall 2008 Claire Murphy-Cook Race, Ethnicity, and Me is a collection of autobiographical essays written by Trinity University students as an assignment for a course taught by Professor David Spener in the Department of…

  • The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics MIT Press January 2009 368 pages 7 x 9, 35 illus. Paper ISBN-10: 0-262-58275-9; ISBN-13: 978-0-262-58275-9 Evelynn M. Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies (and Dean of Harvard College)…

  • Glenn Robinson to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #227? – Glenn Robinson When:…

  • Obama and the Politics of blackness: Antiracism in the “post-black” Conjuncture Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics Culture and Society Volume 12, Issue 4 (2010) pages 313-322 DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2010.526046 Ben Pitcher, Lecturer in Sociology University of Westminster, London This article sets out think about some of the challenges to U.S. antiracism heralded by Barack…

  • New Book Explores Georgetown Inside and Out Georgetown Alumni Online Georgetown University 2010-11-2010 Historian R. Emmett Curran discusses his recently published book, a three-volume history of Georgetown that uncovers little known facts about the university. True or false? 1. In Georgetown’s first decade of existence, nearly 20 percent of its students came from outside the…

  • 2010 Census Shows Black Population has Highest Concentration in the South United States Census Bureau CB11-CN.185 2011-09-29 People Who Reported as Both Black and White More than Doubled The U.S. Census Bureau released today a 2010 Census brief, The Black Population: 2010, that shows 14 percent of all people in the United States identified as…

  • Regulating Race: Interracial Relationships, Community, and Law in Jim Crow Alabama University of Georgia 2008 96 pages L. Kathryn Tucker A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Georgia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS This thesis, based largely on legal cases concerning miscegenation in Alabama,…

  • Biracial Student Voices University of Georgia 2008 140 pages Willie L. Banks Jr., Associate Dean of Student Life Cleveland State University A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Georgia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILISOPHY The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences…

  • Towards a Dialogic Understanding of Print Media Stories About Black/White Interracial Families University of Georgia 2003 160 pages Victor Kulkosky A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Georgia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS This thesis examines print media news stories about Black/White interracial families…