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  • “Mixed Race, White Mother: Love and Identity in the Age of Obama”

    “Mixed Race, White Mother: Love and Identity in the Age of Obama” 8th Floor, Raymond Hall State University of New York, Potsdam 2011-03-22, 16:00 EST (Local Time) Dr. Traci Fordham-Hernandez, Associate Professor of Performance and Communication Arts St. Lawrence University Part of the SUNY Potsdam Women’s and Gender Studies Anne R. Malone Lecture Series. For…

  • The Marrow of Tradition: Electronic Edition

    The Marrow of Tradition: Electronic Edition Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1901 329 pages Electronic Edition University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1997 Text scanned (OCR) by Kathy Graham Text encoded by Teresa Church and Natalia Smith Filesize: ca. 600KB Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) The electronic edition is a…

  • A Critical Race Theory Approach to Understanding Cinematic Representations of the Mixed Race Experience

    A Critical Race Theory Approach to Understanding Cinematic Representations of the Mixed Race Experience Center for Race & Gender University of California, Berkeley 2010-12-08 10/5/2010 CRG Forum: Mixed Race/Mixed Space in Media Culture & Militarized Zones “A Critical Race Theory Approach to Understanding Cinematic Representations of the Mixed Race Experience” Kevin Escudero, Ethnic Studies This…

  • Biracial Americans: The Advantages of White Blood

    Biracial Americans: The Advantages of White Blood Chapter 8 of An Historical Analysis of Skin Color Discrimination in America Springer 2010 200 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5504-3 Chapter: pages 109-126 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5505-0_8 Ronald E. Hall, Professor of Social Work Michigan State University Similar to that of Native Americans, the genesis of victim-group discrimination for biracial Americans…

  • ‘One-drop rule’ persists: Biracials viewed as members of their lower-status parent group

    ‘One-drop rule’ persists: Biracials viewed as members of their lower-status parent group Harvard Gazette Harvard Science: Science and Engineering at Harvard University 2010-12-09 Steve Bradt, Harvard Staff Writer Arnold K. Ho (right), a Ph.D. student in psychology at Harvard, and James Sidanius, a professor of psychology and of African and African-American studies at Harvard, researched…

  • School Counselors’ Perceptions of Biracial Children: A Pilot Study

    School Counselors’ Perceptions of Biracial Children: A Pilot Study Professional School Counseling American School Counselor Association December 2002 page 120-129 Henry L. Harris, Associate Professor and Chair of Department of Counseling University of North Carolina, Charlotte Biracial children represent a growing segment of America’s increasingly diverse population. According to Kalish (1995), data from the National…

  • The Mulatto Millennium: Rethinking blackness in a multiracial world

    The Mulatto Millennium: Rethinking blackness in a multiracial world Utne Reader September/October 1998 Danzy Senna, from the book Half and Half Strange to wake up and realize you’re in style. That’s what happened to me just the other morning. It was the first day of the new millennium, and I woke to find that mulattos…

  • Steelers and Ward nominated for Positive Peace Awards

    Steelers and Ward nominated for Positive Peace Awards Pittsburgh Steelers News 2010-12-06 Celebrate Positive announced today that the Pittsburgh Steelers and wide receiver Hines Ward have been nominated for the inaugural  2010 United Nations NGO Positive Peace Awards in the Professional Sports Team and Professional Athlete categories. This award, viewed as a 21st century peace…

  • Does It Matter Where You Go to College? Merit and Race

    Room For Debate: Does It Matter Where You Go to College? Merit and Race New York Times 2010-11-30 Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, Professor of Law and Harry T. Ice Faculty Fellow Indiana University What sensible and ambitious students should keep in mind about where they go to school. Notwithstanding our commitment to egalitarian norms, where one chooses…

  • A tale of two scholars: The Darwin debate at Harvard

    A tale of two scholars: The Darwin debate at Harvard Harvard Gazette 2007-05-19 Louis Agassiz was a scientist with a blind spot—he rejected the theory of evolution Few people have left a more indelible imprint on Harvard than Louis Agassiz. An ambitious institution-builder and fundraiser as well as one of the most renowned scientists of…