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  • Exploring the Popularization of the Mixed Race American

    Exploring the Popularization of the Mixed Race American The Human Experience: Inside the Humanities at Stanford University 2011-04-22 Stanford Scholar Investigates the “Mulatto Millennium” through Literature, Theatre, Art, & Pop Culture The United States has its first mixed race president, a man with a black African father and white American mother. Actress Halle Barry, golfer…

  • The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865–1920

    Long uncovers a connection between the geographical segregation of prostitution and the rising tide of racial segregation. She offers a compelling explanation of how New Orleans’s lucrative sex trade drew tourists from the Bible Belt and beyond even as a nationwide trend toward the commercialization of sex emerged.

  • Recasting the Tribe of Ishmael: The Role of Indianapolis’s Nineteenth-Century Poor in Twentieth-Century Eugenics

    Recasting the Tribe of Ishmael: The Role of Indianapolis’s Nineteenth-Century Poor in Twentieth-Century Eugenics Indiana Magazine of History Volume 104, Issue 1 (March 2008) pages 36-64 ISSN: 0019-66737 Elsa F. Kramer The Tribe of Ishmael is a biblically derived moniker for hundreds of impoverished late-19th-century immigrants in Indianapolis whose applications for unrestricted public relief during an…

  • Darkening Tiger Woods: How post-scandal Tiger Woods lost his whiteness and became Blasian

    Darkening Tiger Woods: How post-scandal Tiger Woods lost his whiteness and became Blasian Asian American Cultural Center Lounge 1210 W. Nevada Street Urbana, Illinois 2011-04-25, 14:00 CDT (Local Time) Myra Washington, Assistant Professor of Communication & Journalism University of New Mexico The rhetoric around Tiger Woods, after his extramarital affairs became public, demonstrates the complexities…

  • The Missing Box: Multiracial Student Identity Development at a Predominately White Institution

    The Missing Box: Multiracial Student Identity Development at a Predominately White Institution University of Nebraska, Lincoln May 2011 153 pages Ashley Michelle Loudd A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts The purpose of this study…

  • Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? [Review: Johnson]

    Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? [Review: Johnson] American Anthropologist Volume 110, Issue 1 (March 2008) pp. 79–80 ISSN 0002-7294; online ISSN 1548-1433 DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2008.00013.x Amanda Walker Johnson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? G. Reginald Daniel.…

  • Truthdig Radio with Marcia Dawkins

    Truthdig Radio with Marcia Dawkins Truthdig Radio KPFK 90.7 FM (Los Angeles); 98.7 FM (Santa Barbara); 99.5 FM (China Lake); 93.7 North San Diego Wednesday, 2011-04-20, 21:00Z (14:00 PDT, 17:00 EDT) Kasia Anderson, Host and Associate Editor Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Dr. Dawkins discusses mixed race identities, press (including the 2011-04-18 CNN…

  • Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? [Review: Bailey]

    Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? [Review: Bailey] Contemporary Sociology Volume 36, Number 6 (November 2007) pages 535-536 DOI: 10.1177/009430610703600609 Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?, by G. Reginald Daniel. University Park, PA: The…

  • Qualitative Interviews of Racial Fluctuations: The “How” of Latina/o-White Hybrid Identity

    Qualitative Interviews of Racial Fluctuations: The “How” of Latina/o-White Hybrid Identity Communication Theory Volume 21, Issue 2 (May 2011) pages 197–216 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2885.2011.01382.x Shane T. Moreman, Associate Professor of Communications California State University, Fresno Using qualitiative interviewing, this article exposes the performative moments of the Latina/o-White hybrid social actor (i.e., individuals born of one White…

  • A Geographic Analysis of White-Negro-Indian Racial Mixtures in Eastern United States

    A Geographic Analysis of White-Negro-Indian Racial Mixtures in Eastern United States Annals of the Association of American Geographers Volume 43, Number 2 (June 1953) pages 138-155 Edward T. Price Los Angeles State College A Strange product of the mingling of races which followed the British entry into North America survives in the presence of a…