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  • Métis, mixed-ness and music: Aboriginal-Ukrainian encounters and cultural production on the Canadian prairies

    Métis, mixed-ness and music: Aboriginal-Ukrainian encounters and cultural production on the Canadian prairies The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies University of Washington Canadian Studies Center Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall Wednesday, 2011-04-20 19:00 PDT (Local Time) Marcia Ostashewski, Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canadian Studies Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal intermarriages, often described as “mixed-race,” have been the…

  • Journeys in Multiracial America

    Journeys in Multiracial America C-SPAN Elliot Bay Book Company Seattle, Washington 2007-01-27 Elliott Lewis Journalist Elliott Lewis discusses his life as a biracial American at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle. In his memior Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America, the author explains that while he was raised with two parents of mixed racial heritage…

  • The Society for French Historical Studies 57th Annual Meeting

    The Society for French Historical Studies 57th Annual Meeting Sponsored by The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina The Francis Marion Hotel Charleston, South Carolina 2011-02-11 through 2011-02-12 Includes the following sessions: 1A “Representation and Commemoration in France and Its Colonies”… Black and White: Figuring the Senegalese Signares [definition in French] Thérèse De Raedt, Associate…

  • Defying the Civil Rights Lobby: The American Multiracial Movement

    Defying the Civil Rights Lobby: The American Multiracial Movement Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change University of Memphis April 2007 35 pages Kim M. Williams, Associate Professor of Public Policy Harvard University Throughout the 1990s a handful of advocates argued to stunning if partial success that it was both inaccurate and an affront to…

  • Passings That Pass in America: Crossing Over and Coming Back to Tell About It

    Passings That Pass in America: Crossing Over and Coming Back to Tell About It The History Teacher Volume 40, Number 4 (August 2007) 32 paragraphs Donald Reid, Professor of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill TEMPORARILY PASSING as an other is a universal fantasy and a not uncommon practice. From Arab potentates dressed as…

  • The Social Ontology of Race in the “Post-Racial” Era

    The Social Ontology of Race in the “Post-Racial” Era The University of Memphis Department of Philosophy 7th Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Association Conference 2011-02-11 through 2011-02-12 Keynote Speaker Jennifer Lisa Vest, Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of Central Florida In the past several decades, mainstream philosophical discourse has examined the ontology of race from a…

  • With Shades of Gray

    With Shades of Gray Emory Magazine Emory University Spring 2009: Coda: A Changing Country Reflections on the Inauguration of President Barack Obama Taharee Jackson, ’10 PhD The last thing I could afford to do was attend the presidential inauguration at the National Mall, but I simply couldn’t miss it. I had to go and represent…

  • The best fiction and poetry of 2010

    The best fiction and poetry of 2010 The Washington Post Friday, 2010-12-10 …THE GIRL WHO FELL FROM THE SKY, by Heidi W. Durrow (Algonquin, $22.95). When several family members fall off the roof of a Chicago apartment building, the sole survivor is biracial Rachel, who goes to live with her grandmother in an African American…

  • Why Biracial Means Black: The History of Race in America Means Most Blacks Are Biracial to Some Degree

    Why Biracial Means Black: The History of Race in America Means Most Blacks Are Biracial to Some Degree The Root 2010-12-14 Lauren Williams, Associate Editor Checking a census box that says “black” doesn’t mean you’re denying your white ancestry. It’s just how we roll in America. When Halle Berry scored her milestone Oscar win in…

  • Passing for Black? Biracial Americans Are Increasingly ‘Passing for Black’

    Passing for Black?  Biracial Americans Are Increasingly ‘Passing for Black’ The Root 2010-12-14 Thomas Chatterton Williams A new study posits that black-white biracial adults are increasingly choosing, like President Obama, to emphasize their blackness. But in this country, “black” has always been a mongrel affair. It created a minor media frenzy last spring when President Barack…