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  • Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral

    Written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance by one of the movement’s most important and prolific authors, “Plum Bun” is the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl who discovers she can pass for white. After the death of her parents, Angela moves to New York to escape the racism she…

  • The Tapestry of Walter White’s Contradictions [Book Review]

    The Tapestry of Walter White’s Contradictions [Book Review] Sewanee Review Volume 118, Number 3, Summer 2010 pages lxxxii-lxxxiv E-ISSN: 1934-421X Print ISSN: 0037-3052 Sanford Pinsker, Emeritus Professor of English Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Tom Dyja. “Walter White: The Dilemma of Black identity in America”.  The Library of African American Biography.  Lanham, Maryland: Ivan R. Dee Publishsers,…

  • Walter White: The Dilemma of Black Identity in America

    The day Walter White was buried in 1955 the New York Times called him “the nearest approach to a national leader of American Negroes since Booker T. Washington.” For more than two decades, White, as secretary of the NAACP, was perhaps the nation’s most visible and most powerful African-American leader.

  • Race Mixture: Boundary Crossing in Comparative Perspective

    In this article, we examine a large, interdisciplinary, and somewhat scattered literature, all of which falls under the umbrella term race mixture. We highlight important analytical distinctions that need to be taken into account when addressing the related, but separate, social phenomena of intermarriage, miscegenation, multiracial identity, multiracial social movements, and race-mixture ideologies.

  • Crossing Race and Nationality: The Racial Formation of Asian Americans 1852-1965

    Crossing Race and Nationality: The Racial Formation of Asian Americans 1852-1965 Monthly Review December 2005 Bob Wing Bob Wing was part of the first wave of Asian-American activists in the late 1960s. He was founding editor of the antiwar newspaper, War Times,and of the racial justice magazine, ColorLines, and is one of the national leaders…

  • Mexipino: A History of Multiethnic Identity and the Formation of the Mexican and Filipino Communities of San Diego, 1900-1965

    Mexipino: A History of Multiethnic Identity and the Formation of the Mexican and Filipino Communities of San Diego, 1900-1965 (From T-RACES: a Testbed for the Redlining Archives of California’s Exclusionary Spaces) University of California, Santa Barbara June 2007 488 pages Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., Assistant Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation, College…

  • Between Hoax and Hope: Miscegenation and Nineteenth-Century Interracial Romance

    Between Hoax and Hope: Miscegenation and Nineteenth-Century Interracial Romance Literature Compass Volume 3, Issue 4 (July 2006) pages 648–657 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00345.x Katharine Nicholson Ings, Associate Professor of English Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana This essay surveys recent scholarship on interracial romance during the nineteenth century using the hoax Miscegenation pamphlet of 1863 as a lens.…

  • Illegal fictions : white women writers and the miscegenated imagination 1857-1869 (E. D. E. N. Southworth, Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, Lydia Maria Child)

    Illegal fictions : white women writers and the miscegenated imagination 1857-1869 (E. D. E. N. Southworth, Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, Lydia Maria Child) Indiana University 2000 Katharine Nicholson Ings, Associate Professor of English Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana This dissertation examines how popular nineteenth-century white women writers depicted interracial romance in their fiction.…

  • School Racial Composition and Biracial Adolescents’ School Attachment

    School Racial Composition and Biracial Adolescents’ School Attachment Sociological Quarterly Volume 51, Issue 1 (Winter 2010) Published Online: 2010-01-15 Pages 150 – 178 DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2009.01166.x Simon Cheng, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut Joshua Klugman, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Psychology Temple University Despite extensive research on multiracial youth in recent years, to date, no…

  • The Racial Politics of Mixed Race

    The Racial Politics of Mixed Race Journal of Social Philosophy Volume 30, Issue 2, Summer 1999 pages 276–294 DOI: 10.1111/0047-2786.00018 Lisa Tessman, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies Binghamton University, State University of New York Recently there has been an increasing amount of attention given in academic, political, and popular settings in the United…