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  • “’Tain’t no tragedy unless you make it one”: Imitation of Life, Melodrama, and the Mulatta

    “’Tain’t no tragedy unless you make it one”: Imitation of Life, Melodrama, and the Mulatta Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory Volume 66, Number 4, Winter 2010 pages 93-113 E-ISSN: 1558-9595, Print ISSN: 0004-1610 Molly Hiro, Assistant Professor of English University of Portland, Portland, Oregon “I just moved here. My name…

  • Interpreting the Census: The Elasticity of Whiteness and the Depoliticization of Race

    Interpreting the Census: The Elasticity of Whiteness and the Depoliticization of Race  2007 pages 155-170  Katya Gibel Mevorach, Associate Professor of Anthropology Grinnell College  From the anthology:  Racial Liberalism and the Politics of Urban America Michigan State University Press 2007 280 pages 6 ” x 9 ” ISBN: 0-87013-669-0, 978-0-87013-669-6  Edited by:  Curtis Stokes, Professor…

  • U.S. more diverse than ever: Census

    U.S. more diverse than ever: Census The Toronto Star 2010-12-23 Timothy R. Homan Bloomberg News WASHINGTON—The ethnic makeup of the world’s largest economy will be increasingly diverse, with more mixed-race Americans, according to the head of the U.S. Census Bureau. “This is the decade of Tiger Woods and Barack Obama, where we talked about race…

  • The New Nadir: The Political Economy of the Contemporary Black Racial Formation

    The New Nadir: The Political Economy of the Contemporary Black Racial Formation The Black Scholar 2010-03-22 Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign IN “THE NEW NADIR: The Political Economy of the Contemporary Black Racial Formation,” using the Marxist method of historical materialism analyze the period after…

  • How Multi-Ethnic People Identify Themselves

    How Multi-Ethnic People Identify Themselves Talk of The Nation National Public Radio 2010-12-20 00:30:17 Neal Conan, Host Guests Nikki Khanna, Assistant Professor of Sociology (and lead author, “Passing As Black: Racial Identity Work Among Biracial Americans”) University of Vermont Casey Gane-McCalla, Lead Blogger NewsOne Kip Fulbeck, Professor of Art (and author of Mixed: Portraits Of…

  • 2010 Census Data Products: United States (At a Glance – Version 1.0)

    2010 Census Data Products: United States (At a Glance – Version 1.0) Planned Release date: 2011-02-01 through 2011-03-31 Product: 2010 Census Redistricting Data (P.L. 94-171) Summary File by State Category: State population counts for race and Hispanic or Latino categories / State housing unit counts by occupancy status (occupied units, vacant units) Lowest Level Geography:…

  • Many Biracial Students Game Racial-Classification Systems, Study Suggests

    Many Biracial Students Game Racial-Classification Systems, Study Suggests The Chronicle of Higher Education 2010-12-14 Peter Schmidt A study of biracial people with black and white ancestry has found that many identify themselves solely as black when filling out college applications and financial-aid forms, raising new questions about the accuracy of educational statistics and research based…

  • Passing as Black: Racial Identity Work among Biracial Americans

    Passing as Black: Racial Identity Work among Biracial Americans Social Psychology Quarterly Volume 73, Number 4 (Published online 2010-12-13) pages 380-397 DOI: 10.1177/0190272510389014 Nikki Khanna, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Vermont Cathryn Johnson, Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies Emory University Drawing on interview data with black-white biracial adults, we examine the…

  • Reverse Passing? Kidding… Right?

    Reverse Passing? Kidding… Right? The Root 2010-12-14 Jenée Desmond-Harris A report that biracial people are denying their white parents seems absurd to me—but I’m paying attention anyway. Ever heard of Barack Obama? You know, the first black president? The one who won an election and near-deity status in the African-American community while openly discussing his…

  • Passing as Black: How Biracial Americans Choose Identity

    Passing as Black: How Biracial Americans Choose Identity Time Magazine: Healthland Friday, 2010-12-16 Meredith Melnick, Reporter and Producer The practice of passing—identifying with and presenting oneself as one race while denying ancestry of another—reached its peak during the Jim Crow era. Needless to say, the notion of having to “pass” as white is outdated and…