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  • Black and White and Married in the Deep South: A Shifting Image

    Black and White and Married in the Deep South: A Shifting Image The New York Times 2011-03-19 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent HATTIESBURG, Miss. — For generations here in the deepest South, there had been a great taboo: publicly crossing the color line for love. Less than 45 years ago, marriage between blacks and whites was…

  • Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective by Mark Christian [Book Review]

    Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective by Mark Christian [Book Review] Journal of Black Studies Volume 32, Number 2 (November 2001) pages 261-264 DOI: 10.1177/002193470103200206 Molefi Kete Asante, Professor of African American Studies Temple University Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective, by Mark Christian. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. Mark Christian has written a perceptive, enlightening…

  • Hybrid Hotties: Intersections of Gender and Race in Multiracial Bodies

    Hybrid Hotties: Intersections of Gender and Race in Multiracial Bodies Rhode Island School of Design 55 Angel Street, MET Room A Providence, Rhode Island Monday, 2011-03-21, 19:00-20:30 EDT (Local Time) (free and open to the public) Information: 401-277-4957 Ulli K. Ryder, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Brown…

  • Does Multiracial Matter? A Study of Racial Disparities in Self-Rated Health

    Does Multiracial Matter? A Study of Racial Disparities in Self-Rated Health Demography Volume 48, Number 1 pages 127-152 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-010-0005-0 Jenifer L. Bratter, Associate Professor of Sociology Rice University Bridget K. Gorman, Associate Professor of Sociology Rice University How do self-identified multiracial adults fit into documented patterns of racial health disparities? We assess whether the…

  • Redefining Race and Ethnicity in the US

    Redefining Race and Ethnicity in the US Voice of America 2011-03-14 Todd Grosshans The number of young Americans with mixed race and ethnicity is rising real fast in the United States. Many are going to college helping to bridge racial and ethnic divides on campuses nationwide. VOA’s Todd Grosshans takes a closer look on the…

  • Race and Mixed Race (LS 355)

    Race and Mixed Race (LS 355) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Fall 2011 Explores the history of racial classification in the U.S. with special attention to the census and the role of the state more generally in defining race. Emphasis on how race-mixing has been understood in American culture, and on the current literature on “multiracials”…

  • The Invisible Line: American families’ journeys from black to white

    The Invisible Line: American families’ journeys from black to white Research news@Vanderbilt Vanderbilt University 2011-02-17 Amy Wolf The idea of someone transitioning from black to white, without science or surgery, seems hard to grasp on the surface. Yet Vanderbilt Law School professor Daniel J. Sharfstein finds that African Americans have continually crossed the color line…

  • The Invisible Line: Three American families and the secret journey from black to white [Live Interview with Daniel J. Sharfstein]

    The Invisible Line: Three American families and the secret journey from black to white [Live Interview with Daniel J. Sharfstein] Minnesota Public Radio News Midmorning Broadcast: 2011-03-15 15:06Z (10:06 CDT, 11:06 EDT, 08:06 PDT) Kerri Miller, Host Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University For much of American history, racial identity has been defined…

  • Termination’s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah. By R. Warren Metcalf. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xx, 305 pp., ISBN 0-8032-3201-2.) [Review]

    Termination’s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah. By R. Warren Metcalf. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xx, 305 pp., ISBN 0-8032-3201-2.)  [Review] The Journal of American History Volume 90, Number 3 (December 2003) page 1107 DOI: 10.2307/3661030 David Rich Lewis, Professor of History Utah State University, Logan Termination’s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah.…

  • Termination’s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah

    Termination’s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah University of Nebraska Press 2002 311 pages Illus., maps Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-3201-3; Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-2251-9 R. Warren Metcalf, Associate Professor of United States History University of Oklahoma Termination’s Legacy describes how the federal policy of termination irrevocably affected the lives of a group of mixed-blood Ute Indians who…