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  • Hidden in plain sight: defying juridical racialization in Rhinelander v. Rhinelander

    Hidden in plain sight: defying juridical racialization in Rhinelander v. Rhinelander Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Volume 1, Issue 4 (2004) Pages 313-334 DOI: 10.1080/1479142042000270458 Nadine Ehlers, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Georgetown University This article examines the intersectionality of law and race to argue that law, in its broadest understanding, has played a…

  • Barack Obama as the post-racial candidate for a post-racial America: perspectives from Asian America and Hawai’i

    Barack Obama as the post-racial candidate for a post-racial America: perspectives from Asian America and Hawai’i Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 1 & 2  (Special Issue: Obama and Race) (2011) Pages 133-153 DOI: 110.1080/0031322X.2011.563159 Jonathan Y. Okamura, Professor of Ethnic Studies University of Hawai’i Okamura reviews the 2008 US presidential campaign and the election of Barack Obama…

  • Retroactive phantasies: discourse, discipline, and the production of race

    Retroactive phantasies: discourse, discipline, and the production of race Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture Volume 14, Issue 3 (2008) Pages 333-347 DOI: 10.1080/13504630802088219 Nadine Ehlers, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Georgetown University The present inquiry considers how the practice and notion of race can be figured as…

  • Prologue: the riddle of race

    Prologue: the riddle of race Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 1 & 2 (Special Issue: Obama and Race) (2011) Pages 4-14 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.2011.563141 Emily Bernard, Associate Professor of English and ALANA [African Americans, Latinos/as, Asian Americans and Native Americans] US Ethnic Studies University of Vermont James Vellacott, ‘President Obama shakes the hand of PC…

  • How to read Michelle Obama

    How to read Michelle Obama Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 1 & 2 (Special Issue: Obama and Race) (2011) Pages 95 – 117 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.2011.563149 Maria Lauret, Reader in American Studies University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom Michelle Obama’s role as the first African American First Lady is more than merely symbolic. Her self-representation…

  • The history of racial passing…

    Although the history of racial passing does not evoke the clearcut ethical responses that we have to slavery it is an important part of the larger story of racism and racial repression in this country. The frequency of passing is further evidence of the fraudulence of race as a meaningful construct for other than divisive…

  • “Lost Boundaries”: Racial Passing and Poverty in Segregated New Orleans

    “Lost Boundaries”: Racial Passing and Poverty in Segregated New Orleans The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association Volume 36, Number 3 (Summer, 1995) pages 291-312 Arthé A. Anthony, Professor of American Studies, Emeritus Occidental College, Los Angeles On sunny summer Sunday afternoons in Harlem when the air is one interminable ball game and grandma cannot…

  • Racial Imperatives: Discipline, Performativity, & Struggles against Subjection

    Nadine Ehlers examines the constructions of blackness and whiteness cultivated in the U.S. imaginary and asks, how do individuals become racial subjects?

  • Walking in Two Worlds: Mixed-Blood Indian Women Seeking Their Path

    Walking in Two Worlds: Mixed-Blood Indian Women Seeking Their Path Caxton Press 2006 264 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 0-87004-450-8 Nancy M. Peterson Nancy M. Peterson tells the stories of mixed-blood women who, steeped in the tradition of their Indian mothers but forced into the world of their white fathers, fought to find their…

  • Cave Canem Prize Winner Iain Haley Pollock: An Interview

    Cave Canem Prize Winner Iain Haley Pollock: An Interview Michigan Quarterly Review February 2011 Dilruba Ahmed Meet Iain Haley Pollock: Philadelphia-based poet, English teacher at Chestnut Hill Academy, and co-host with his partner Naomi of an occasional culinary smackdown based on “Iron Chef.”  Iain’s first book of poems, Spit Back a Boy, won the 2010 Cave…