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  • Blackness, Hypodescent, and Essentialism: Commentary on McPherson and Shelby’s “Blackness and Blood”

    Blackness, Hypodescent, and Essentialism: Commentary on McPherson and Shelby’s “Blackness and Blood” Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy Volume 1, Number 1, May 2005 Gregory Velazco y Trianosky, Professor of Philosopy California State University, Northridge In their fascinating and thoughtful paper, McPherson and Shelby seek to defend everyday African American understandings of their own identity…

  • Reading between the (Blood) Lines

    Reading between the (Blood) Lines Southern California Law Review Volume 83, Number 3 (2010) pages 473-494 Rose Cuison Villazor, Professor of Law Hofstra University School of Law Legal scholars and historians have depicted the rule of hypodescent—that “one drop” of African blood categorized one as Black—as one of the powerful ways that law and society…

  • Professor Marsha Daria to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Professor Marsha Daria 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: #160 – Professor Marsha D. Daria…

  • Danbury’s multiracial students to star in film

    Danbury’s multiracial students to star in film The Connecticut Post 2010-04-02 Eileen FitzGerald, Staff Writer Danbury, Connecticut—The three boys wore jeans and long-sleeve T-shirts. The two girls each wore a dozen bracelets and necklaces. They looked like typical students in the library media center at Broadview Middle School. It was their differences, however, that brought…

  • Towards a Dialogic Understanding

    Towards a Dialogic Understanding Politics And Culture 2003-07-08 Victor Kulkosky Good morning. I’m talking today about a work in progress, so you’ll get more questions than answers this time around. Maybe you’ll get the answers at the next CSA conference, if there is one. I think most of us here agree that one of the…

  • Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South

    Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South New York University Press 2010-04-23 304 pages 13 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780814791325 Paperback ISBN: 9780814791332 Leslie Bow, Professor of English and Asian American Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison Arkansas, 1943. The Deep South during the heart of Jim Crow-era segregation. A Japanese-American person boards…

  • Neighborhood Segregation in Single-Race and Multirace America: A Census 2000 Study of Cities and Metropolitan Areas

    Neighborhood Segregation in Single-Race and Multirace America: A Census 2000 Study of Cities and Metropolitan Areas Fannie Mae Foundation 2002 45 pages William H. Frey University of Michigan and the Milken Institute Dowell Myers University of Southern California This report accompanies the release of detailed racial segregation indices for 1,246 individual U.S. cities with populations…

  • Good Question: Is Obama The First Black President?

    Good Question: Is Obama The First Black President? WCCO-TV Good Question 2008-11-05 Jason Derush, Reporter You can’t turn on television or read a newspaper without seeing a reference to Sen. Barack Obama, the first black President. But wait a minute, said Naomi Banks, if Obama has a white mother, “My question is… why isn’t he…

  • The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War [Book Review]

    The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War [Book Review] H-Net Reviews 2002-01-23 Ethan S. Rafuse, Associate Professor of Military History United States Military Academy Victoria E. Bynum.“The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War”.  The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies.  Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press,…

  • Second Biennial: Interdisciplinary Conference on Race – Examining Race in the 21st Century

    Second Biennial: Interdisciplinary Conference on Race – Examining Race in the 21st Century 2010-11-11 through 2010-11-13 Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey The idea of race continues to be controversial. In spite of different historical developments in various parts of the world, the meaning of race and its significance remains an open issue. Some…