Mixed Race Studies

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Hapas: Emerging Identity, Emerging Terms and Labels & the Social Construction of Race

2010-04-16

Hapas: Emerging Identity, Emerging Terms and Labels & the Social Construction of Race Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies Volume II (October 2009) 20 pages Adriane E. Gamble Adriane E. Gamble presents part of her honors thesis in her paper “Hapas: Emerging Identity, Emerging Terms and Labels, and the Social Construction of Race.” Her paper…
Boundaries Transgressed: Modernism and miscegenation in Langston Hughes’s “Red-Headed Baby”

2010-04-15

Boundaries Transgressed: Modernism and miscegenation in Langston Hughes’s “Red-Headed Baby” Atlantic Studies Volume 3, Issue 1 (April 2006) pages 97 – 110 DOI: 10.1080/14788810500525499 Isabel Soto This essay is an expanded and revised version of a paper read at the 8th International Conference On the Short Story in English, organized by the Instituto Universitario de…
Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture (review)

2010-04-15

Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture (review) MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 35, Number 1 (Spring 2010) E-ISSN: 1946-3170 Print ISSN: 0163-755X DOI: 10.1353/mel.0.0078 David Todd Lawrence, Associate Professor of English University of St. Thomas Passing narratives have long been a fixture of American literature. For African American authors, plots of racial…
Mixed feelings about mixed-race census option

2010-04-15

The 2010 census, which hit mailboxes this month, is causing scholars and mixed-race people to debate, for just the second time in the count’s history, the dilemma of whether or not to check multiple “race” boxes.
Passing Fancy

2010-04-13

In the Jim Crow South, courts understood that rigidly enforcing the rules against mixed marriage would have been a disaster—for whites.
Crossing the Color Line: Racial Migration and the One-Drop Rule, 1600–1860

2010-04-13

Crossing the Color Line: Racial Migration and the One-Drop Rule, 1600–1860 Minnesota Law Review Volume 91, Number 3 (February 2007) pages 592-656 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University “It ain’t no lie, it’s a natural fact, / You could have been colored without being so black…” —Sung by deck hands, Auburn, Alabama, 1915–161…
How Mixed-Race Politics Entered the United States: Lydia Maria Child’s ‘Appeal’

2010-04-12

How Mixed-Race Politics Entered the United States: Lydia Maria Child’s ‘Appeal’ ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance Volume 56, Number 1, 2010 (Nos. 218 O.S.) pages 71-104 DOI: 10.1353/esq.0.0043 Robert Fanuzzi, Assistant Chair and Associate Professor of English St. Johns University, Queens, New York For scholars of the colonial and early national United States,…
“Tell the Court I Love My [Indian] Wife” Interrogating Race and Self-Identity in Loving v. Virginia

2010-04-12

“Tell the Court I Love My [Indian] Wife” Interrogating Race and Self-Identity in Loving v. Virginia Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society Volume 8, Issue 1 (April 2006) pages 67-80 DOI: 10.1080/10999940500516983 Arica L. Coleman, Assistant Professor of Black American Studies Unverisity of Delaware The article reexamines the Loving V. Virginia…
Ambiguity and the Ethics of Reading Race and Lynching in James W. Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)

2010-04-12

Ambiguity and the Ethics of Reading Race and Lynching in James W. Johnson’s “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” (1912) Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies (COPAS) Volume 10 (2009) ISSN: 1861-6127 Carmen Dexl University of Erlangen James Weldon Johnson’s novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) discusses the causes, conditions, and implications of…
Understanding Race: The Evolution of the Meaning of Race in American Law and the Impact of DNA Technology on its Meaning in the Future

2010-04-12

Understanding Race: The Evolution of the Meaning of Race in American Law and the Impact of DNA Technology on its Meaning in the Future Albany Law Review Volume 72, Issue 4 (2009) Pages 1113-1143 William Q. Lowe Albany Law School Race has played a decisive role in nearly all aspects of American society, yet its…

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