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  • From Invisible Man to “New People”: The Recent Discovery of American Mulattoes

    From Invisible Man to “New People”: The Recent Discovery of American Mulattoes Phylon (1960-) Volume 46, Number 2 (2nd Quarter, 1985) pages 106-122 Patricia Morton It might well seem obvious what the following persons have in common: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Walter White, Horace Mann Bond, Julian Bond, Martin Luther King, Jr.,…

  • Being counted is crucial in the U.S…

    My academic research is on racial categories in national censuses.  When I first started reading about the push to get a “mixed-race” category on the U.S. census in the 1990s, I was absolutely on the side of the multiracial movement. I thought the census should recognize our identities, no matter how complicated they may be. …

  • Latinos are “Mixed,” Too

    Latinos are “Mixed,” Too News Taco: The Latino Daily 2011-07-14 Chantilly Patiño, blogger Bicultural Mom Most times, Americans don’t think of Latinos as being mixed or multicultural, but in reality Latinos are leaders of multiculturalism and mixed families.  Start off with the fact that most Latinos come from a combination of European and Native ancestry,…

  • Mixed Race Season

    Mixed Race Season BBC Press Office BBC Two Summer & Autumn 2011 Diverse, stimulating and rewarding television on BBC Two 2011-06-22 Mixed-race Britain is put under the spotlight this autumn in a collection of revealing new programmes. With a mix of drama and documentaries, the season provides a window into the varied lives of mixed-race…

  • Mulatto Theology: Race, Discipleship, and Interracial Existence

    Mulatto Theology: Race, Discipleship, and Interracial Existence Duke University 2009 290 pages Brian Keith Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Religion in the Graduate School of Duke University To exist racially “in-between,” being neither…

  • Mixed Messages: Barack Obama and Post-Racial Politics

    Mixed Messages: Barack Obama and Post-Racial Politics Spectator (Journal of the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematics Arts) Volume 30, Number 2 (Fall 2010) pages 9-17 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University The election of President Barack Hussein Obama marks an important milestone in United States racial politics. Many cultural critics and opinion leaders…

  • Geteilte Geschichte: The Black Experience in Germany and the U.S.

    Geteilte Geschichte: The Black Experience in Germany and the U.S. The German Historical Institute 1607 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. Thursday, 2011-08-19, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) RSVP (acceptances only) by August 12, 2011 Telephone: 202-387-3355, FAX: 202-387-6437 E-Mail: events@ghi-dc.org Noah Sow Noah Sow is an acclaimed journalist, musician, and producer. In 2001, she founded…

  • “Roots Germania” A Personal Search for Identity (Film Screening and Panel Discussion)

    “Roots Germania” A Personal Search for Identity (Film Screening and Panel Discussion) The German Historical Institute 1607 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. Thursday, 2011-08-18, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) RSVP (acceptances only) by August 12, 2011 Telephone: 202-387-3355, FAX: 202-387-6437 E-Mail: events@ghi-dc.org The Grimme award nominated documentary “Roots Germania” was directed by Mo Asumang, the…

  • Love with a Proper Stranger: What Anti-Miscegenation Laws Can Tell Us About the Meaning of Race, Sex, and Marriage

    Although anti-miscegenation laws generally have been analyzed as racial legislation, they also can tell us a great deal about intimacy. These provisions have certainly been used to define and entrench racial difference, but they are also a means to set the boundaries of sexual decency and marital propriety. Here, I will use the comparative experience…

  • Sex, Blood, and Hybridity: The Discourse of Racial Anxiety in Antebellum Writing

    Sex, Blood, and Hybridity: The Discourse of Racial Anxiety in Antebellum Writing Northeast Modern Language Association NeMLA 2012 Convention Rochester, New York 2012-03-15 through 2012-03-18 This panel seeks to investigate how antebellum literary texts worked dialectically with the new racial science of ethnology to respond to the dominant racial ideologies of the day. Topics and/or…