Category: United States

  • Census data suggests increased acceptance of being multiracial The Daily Texan University of Texas, Austin 2011-04-01 Shamoyita DasGupta, Daily Texan Staff More Americans than ever before identify as multiracial, according to the 2010 census.   Of the 9 million people who listed themselves as more than one race, 4.2 million are children. The percentage rose…

  • PRico sees increase in blacks, American Indians The Seattle Times 2011-03-31 Danica Coto Associated Press The number of Puerto Ricans identifying themselves solely as black or American Indian jumped about 50 percent in the last decade, according to new census figures that have surprised experts and islanders alike. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—The number of Puerto…

  • Base Wretches and Black Wenches: A Story of Sex and Race, Violence and Compassion, During Slavery Alabama Law Review Volume 59 (2008) pages 1501-1555 Jason A. Gillmer, Associate Professor of Law Texas Wesleyan School of Law This Article examines in detail the local and trial records of a nineteenth-century Texas case to tell the story…

  • Suing for Freedom: Interracial Sex, Slave Law, and Racial Identity in the Post-Revolutionary and Antebellum South North Carolina Law Review Volume 82, Issue 2 (January 2004) pages 535- Jason A. Gillmer, Associate Professor of Law Texas Wesleyan School of Law Introduction A. Two Stories   In 1823 in Sumner County, Tennessee, Phebe, a “colored woman”…

  • The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of The Frontier Romance Cambridge University Press August 2006 256 pages Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm Weight: 0.55 kg Hardback ISBN: 9780521865395 Paperback ISBN: 9780521073042 Adobe eBook Reader ISBN: 9780511239465 Mobipocket eBook ISBN: 9780511247484 Ezra Tawil, Associate Professor of English University of Rochester, Rochester, New York…

  • Based largely on data collected from oral history interviews, this study examines the construction of triracial ethnoracial identities (African American-Caucasian-American Indian). Here in-depth narratives and analyses of two triracial family histories surface the complex, dynamic, and interactional social contingencies that act on individual and family psychologies to share ethnic identity; these processes are illustrative of…

  • Multiracial Identity Bullfrog Films 2010 77 minutes/56 minutes DVD ISBN: 1-59458-913-5 Directed by Brian Chinhema Produced by Abacus Production Narrated by Dieter Weber Director of Photography: Jay Cornelius Editor: Jay Cornelius Music: Ed Beceril, Elizabeth Nicholson Explores the social, political and religious impact of the multiracial movement. Note: There are two versions of this program…

  • Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters Stanford University Press 2009 312 pages 11 tables, 15 figures, 16 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780804759984 Paper ISBN: 9780804759991 E-book ISBN: 9780804770996 Edited by: Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor of Asian American Studies University of California, Berkeley Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism—the preference…

  • Census Data Presents Rise in Multiracial Population of Youths The New York Times 2011-03-24 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent WASHINGTON — Among American children, the multiracial population has increased almost 50 percent, to 4.2 million, since 2000, making it the fastest growing youth group in the country. The number of people of all ages who identified…

  • Seeing Black Women Anew through Lesbian Desire in Nella Larsen’s Passing Rocky Mountain Review Rocky Mountain Language Association Volume 60, Number 1 (Spring 2006) pages 25-52 H. Jordan Landry, Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Beginning in the 1910s and 1920s, a series of novels advocate that African Americans commit themselves to “loving blackness,”…