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  • Why Obama is African American, Not Biracial

    Why Obama is African American, Not Biracial New America Media Commentary 2008-12-18 Earl Ofari Hutchinson Here’s the ‘What is President-elect Barack Obama—black, biracial or multiracial?’ quiz. If he did not have one of the world’s most recognizable names and faces, he would fume at being turned away from restaurants, bypassed by taxis, racially profiled by…

  • Greg Carter to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Greg Carter 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: #191-Greg Carter When: Wednesday, 2011-02-02, 22:00Z (17:00…

  • Patterns of Situational Identity Among Biracial and Multiracial College Students

    Patterns of Situational Identity Among Biracial and Multiracial College Students The Review of Higher Education Volume 23, Number 4 (Summer 2000) pages 399–420 E-ISSN: 1090-7009, Print ISSN: 0162-5748 DOI: 10.1353/rhe.2000.0019 Kristen A. Renn, Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education Michigan State University Using qualitative grounded theory framed by postmodern racial identity theory, the…

  • Memorandum Concerning the Characteristics of the Larger Mixed-Blood Racial Islands of the Eastern United States

    In many of the eastern States of this country there are small pockets of peoples who arc scattered here and there in different counties and who are complex mixtures in varying degrees of white, Indian, and Negro blood. These small local groups seem to develop especially where environmental circumstances such as forbidding swamps or inaccessible and…

  • Brass Ankles Speak

    Brass Ankles Speak Essays by Alice Dunbar-Nelson circa 1929 Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) Prefatory Note by Gloria T. Hull Entitled “Brass Ankles Speaks” (Vol. 2, WADN), it is an outspoken denunciation of darker skinned black people’s prejudice against light-skinned blacks told by a “brass ankles,” a black person “white enough to pass for white, but with…

  • The Devil and the One Drop Rule: Racial Categories, African Americans and the U.S. Census

    The Devil and the One Drop Rule: Racial Categories, African Americans and the U.S. Census Michigan Law Review Volume 95, Number 5 (March 1997) pages 1161-1265 Christine B. Hickman, Associate Professor of Law California Western School of Law Table of Contents Introduction I. Treatment of Mixed-Race People: The Early Legal Record A. The First African…

  • PSU MFA Monday Lecture Series: Laylah Ali

    PSU MFA Monday Lecture Series: Laylah Ali Portland State University Campus (at the corner of SW Broadway & Hall) Shattuck Hall Annex 1914 SW Park Ave, Room 198 Portland, Oregon 2011-01-31, 19:30-20:30 PST (Local Time) Laylah Ali, Associate Professor of Art Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts Free to the public Laylah Ali was born in Buffalo, New…

  • Kelly Jackson: Faculty spotlight

    Kelly Jackson: Faculty spotlight Arizona State University College of Public Programs 2011-01-14 Dr. Kelly Jackson is an Assistant Professor in Social Work in the College of Public Programs. Before coming to the College four years ago, she earned her Masters in Social Work from the University at Albany, and her PhD in Social Welfare from…

  • Admixture in a biologically African caste of Black Americans

    Admixture in a biologically African caste of Black Americans American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 74, Issue 2 (October 1987) pages 265–273 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330740213 Curtis W. Wienker, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology University of South Florida Social and historical factors account for much of the variation in European ancestry among different Black American populations, including that…

  • The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature

    In exploring the social and cultural history of this distinctly American phenomenon, Bennett moves freely between literature, film, and music, arguing that the passing figure is crucial to our understanding of past and present conceptions of race.