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  • 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…

  • Racial Integrity Act of 1924 (State legislature of Virginia)

    Racial Integrity Act of 1924 (State legislature of Virginia) The Racial Integrity Act of 1924 of Virginia, United States, was a law that had required the racial makeup of persons to be recorded at birth, and prevented marriage between “white persons” and non-white persons. The law was the most famous ban on miscegenation in the…

  • “My Daughter Married a Negro”: Interracial Relationships in the United States as Portrayed in Popular Media, 1950-1975

    “My Daughter Married a Negro”: Interracial Relationships in the United States as Portrayed in Popular Media, 1950-1975 Journal of Undergraduate Research University of Wisconsin, La Crosse Volume VIII (2005) 13 pages Melissa Magnuson-Cannady Between 1948 and 1967, thirty states either repealed their anti-miscegenation laws or the states’ laws themselves were struck down as unconstitutional by…

  • Nation, miscegenation, and the myth of the mulatta/o monster 1859-1886

    Nation, miscegenation, and the myth of the mulatta/o monster 1859-1886 Universite de Montreal (Canada) 2009 261 pages Publication Number: AAT NR60321 ISBN: 9780494603215 Jessica Alexandra Maeve Murphy These presentee a la Faculte des etudes superieures En vue de l’obtention du grade de Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) en etudes anglaises “Nation, Miscegenation, and The Myth of the…

  • Intermarriage and racial amalgamation in the United States

    Intermarriage and racial amalgamation in the United States Biodemography and Social Biology Volume 14, Issue 2 (1967) pages 112-120 DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1967.9987710 David M. Heer, Professor Emeritus of Sociology University of Southern California Within the last few years tremendous popular interest has been aroused in the subject of Negro-white intermarriage. Fifteen years ago Negro protest leaders…

  • CNN DIALOGUES: The 2010 Census and the New America?

    CNN DIALOGUES: The 2010 Census and the New America? The Cecil B. Day Chapel of The Carter Center  453 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, GA, 30307 2011-08-31, 19:00-20:30 EDT (Local Time) Moderator: Wolf Blitzer, CNN’s Lead Political Anchor and Anchor of “The Situation Room” Panelists: Heidi W. Durrow, author of the debut novel The Girl Who Fell…

  • Daniel McNeil to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Daniel McNeil 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 and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #219-Daniel McNeil When: Wednesday, 2011-08-03, 22:00Z (18:00…

  • Indian Voices Creates a Bureau of Black Indian Affairs

    Indian Voices Creates a Bureau of Black Indian Affairs Indian Voices July/August 2011 Rose Davis, Publisher Indian Voices At last a true Separate But Equal—For the Good of the People The Dawes Rolls (a census, used by the BIA [Bureau of Indian Affairs] to determine identity of Tribal members and citizens) came into existence in…

  • The Invisible Line

    The Invisible Line Late Night Live ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Radio National 2011-06-13 Phillip Adams, Presenter Kris Short, Story Researcher and Producer Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law (and author of The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White) Vanderbilt University In America race has always been a potent…

  • Embodying race: gender, sex, and the sciences of difference, 1830-1934

    Embodying race: gender, sex, and the sciences of difference, 1830-1934 Rutgers University, New Brunswick May 2008 356 pages Melissa Norelle Stein, Postdoctoral Fellow Center for Race and Ethnicity Rutgers University A Dissertation submitted to the Graduate School-New Brunswick Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of…