Category: United States

  • Blending together The Stanford Daily Stanford University 2011-05-05 Ashley Menzies These students are part of the growing country-wide phenomenon of individuals who identify themselves as “mixed race.” The number of people who check both the black and white boxes has increased by 134 percent to 1.8 million since the 2000 census, the first time it…

  • Carlos Hoyt 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: #204 – Carlos Hoyt When: Wednesday, 2011-05-04,…

  • Secret Asian Woman Stage and Studio with Dmae Roberts 2011-03-03 Independent Producer Dmae Roberts presents Secret Asian Woman, a half-hour personal exploration of identity and Mixed Race. Through her personal story, Dmae charts four decades of a search by multiracial peoples for a name. The politics of calling out racism has changed through the years…

  • Has perception of biracial women changed in modern times? SMU Daily Campus Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 2011-05-03 Victoria Ahmadi As a biracial woman myself, I find it essential that society become better informed of the life-altering consequences that biracial individuals are forced to deal with. While the media’s perceptions of identity shift, young women…

  • Mar Gallego 2003: Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance: Identity Politics and Textual Strategies. Forum for European Contributions in African American Studies. Münster: Lit Verlag. 214 pp. [Review] Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies Volume 26, Number 1 (2004) Isabel Soto García Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia  (UNED) In her wide-ranging…

  • Mar Gallego. Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance: Identity, Politics and Textual Strategies [Review] African American Review Volume 38 (Winter 2004) pages 720-723 Mar Gallego. Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance: Identity, Politics and Textual Strategies. Hamburg: Lit Verlag Munster, 2003. 214 pp. Zhou Yupei Until very recently, novels of passing that appeared during the…

  • Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance: Identity Politics and Textual Strategies Lit Verlag Munster 2003 224 pages ISBN 3-8258-5842-1 Mar Gallego, Associate Professor of American Studies University of Huelva (Spain) Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance offers an insightful study of the significance of passing novels for the literary and intellectual debate of the Harlem…

  • Multiracal In America Ebony Magazine May 2011 Adam Serwer In The Mix: Being Biracial in America When President Barack Obama checked “Black” on his census form last April, it was an actual news story. The Associated Press subhed [sub-headline] was lined with implicit anguish: “President Ticks One Box Concerning Racial Heritage on U.S. Census Form,…

  • The Modern Mulatto: A Comparative Analysis of the Social and Legal Positions of Mulattoes in the Antebellum South and the Intersex in Contemporary America Columbia Journal of Gender and Law Volume 15, Number 3 (September 2006) Marie-Amélie George, Associate Lawyer Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Recognizing new social forces working against the “correction”…

  • As the mixed-race population grows, the stigma of the past fades jcOnline.com (Journal and Courier) Lafayette – West Lafayette, Indiana 2011-05-01 Taya Flores Gerald and Susan Thomas experienced a hurtful racial climate in Greater Lafayette when they dated during the 1970s. A drive-by verbal assault in Lafayette early in their marriage is one Gerald still…