Category: United States

  • More metro Atlantans say they’re multiracial: Fast-growing segment represents a cultural shift that’s nationwide Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2011-09-03 Bo Emerson When Evelyn Brown-Wilder was growing up in Tuscaloosa, Ala., in the 1950s, life was a matter of warring opposites. Though some of her ancestors were white and her face was pale, the law said she was…

  • Generation, Degeneration, Miscegenation Intstitute for Research on Women IRW Distinguished Lecture Series 2011-12: (De)Generations: Reimagining Communities Rutgers University Thursday, 2012-04-12 (16:00 EDT reception; 16:30 EDT lecture) César Braga-Pinto, Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies Northwestern University Focusing on the cases of Brazil and the U.S., this presentation proposes to articulate the role played by gender representations…

  • This research monograph analyses and describes how multiracial undergraduates have come to think about race and racism.

  • ASEM 2535: The Multiracial Individual The Womens College, University of Denver Fall Quarter, 2011 Arthur C. Jones, Clinical Professor and Chair of Culture and Psychology From the beginning of its history, the United States has always been a place where bi-ethnic and bi-racial romantic alliances have been common, producing children with multi-ethnic and multi-racial roots.…

  • Taste, Manners, and Miscegenation: French Racial Politics in the US American Literary History Volume 19, Issue 3 (2007) pages 573-602 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajm025 Robert Fanuzzi, Assistant Chair and Associate Professor of English St. Johns University, Queens, New York A prequel: A French gourmand, in flight from political turmoil at home, arrives in post-Revolutionary America with a…

  • An Interview with UW’s Lynet Uttal: Making the Asian American experience visible through learning Asian Wisconzine Volume 7, Number 9 (September 2011) Heidi M. Pascual Part 1 of 2 It was “quite an accident of fate” that Lynet Uttal became the director of the  University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Asian American Studies Program. Although Uttal has been…

  • Professor: Racial categorization remains necessary in Census Medill Washington Medill News Service Medill School, Northwestern University 2011-08-08 Angie Chung WASHINGTON—Does where we come from tell us whom we are? Why do we come in different colors? Does skin color equal race?   Talking about racial issues can be a never-ending discussion. It’s complicated. The Census…

  • Mixed Race Britain – How The World Got Mixed Up BBC Press Office: Press Packs 2011-09-05 Ruth Williams, Seretse Khama and family This one-off documentary explores the historical and contemporary social, sexual and political attitudes to race mixing. Throughout modern history, interracial sex has been one of society’s great taboos, and across many parts of…

  • Are you white enough? Salon.com 2008-11-10 Laura Miller, Senior Writer From Jim Crow laws to workplace discrimination, the history of race and the American courtroom is incendiary. Come January, Barack Obama will be sworn in as either the first black president of the United States or the 44th white one, or both, or neither, depending…

  • Historical Fantasy, Speculative Realism, and Postrace Aesthetics in Contemporary American Fiction American Literary History Volume 23, Number 3 (Fall 2011) pages 574-599 E-ISSN: 1468-4365 Print ISSN: 0896-7148 Ramón Saldívar, Professor of History Stanford University Since the turn of the century, a new generation of minority writers has come to prominence whose work signals a radical…