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  • Myth of Post-Racial America: Biracial novelist says America still has a long way to go

    Myth of Post-Racial America: Biracial novelist says America still has a long way to go Northwestern University News Center 2010-03-08 Wendy Leopold, Education Editor EVANSTON, Illinois — In a speech titled “The Myth of Post-Racial America,” writer Danzy Senna warned members of the packed audience in Fisk Hall against the urge to view America as…

  • Couple finds a more than a century old gravestone

    Couple finds a more than a century old gravestone Beaumont Enterprise 2009-12-13 Kyle Peveto Beneath a tool shed behind her house, Mallary Sanders and her fiance found a 118-year-old piece of history they are begging someone to take. Last weekend, Sanders’ fiance, Justin Trusty, 24, was cleaning beneath the pier-and-beam shed when he came across…

  • Shades of Gray: The Life and Times of a Free Family of Color in Antebellum Texas

    Shades of Gray: The Life and Times of a Free Family of Color in Antebellum Texas Jason A. Gillmer, Professor of Law Texas Wesleyan University School of Law 2009-08-13 64 pages The history of race and slavery is often told from the perspective of either the oppressors or the oppressed. This Article takes a different…

  • 2010 Census: Stressed Out of the Box

    2010 Census: Stressed Out of the Box The Huffington Post 2010-03-10 Marcia Dawkins, Assistant Professor of Human Communication California State University, Fullerton Robert M. Groves, Director of the U.S. Census Bureau, sent me a letter today. Mr. Groves told me that my 2010 Census form will be arriving sometime next week and that my “response…

  • Commentary: Living in a Mixed-Race America

    Commentary: Living in a Mixed-Race America Essence.com Essence Magazine 2009-10-20 June Cross, Assistant Professor of Journalism Columbia University As if being married had anything to do with Blacks and Whites producing mixed-race children. That was my first thought upon reading that an elected official in Louisiana had refused to marry a Black man and a…

  • Letter from The Census Bureau

    2010-03-09 Steven F. Riley Like most Americans, we received a letter in the mail yesterday from the US Census Bureau notifying us of the forthcoming census… Most relevant to this website is the option on the form for individuals to select one or more racial designations the potential consequences for public policy.  As a result in…

  • 2010 Census: Think Twice, Check Once

    2010 Census: Think Twice, Check Once The Huffington Post 2010-03-08 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Stanford University The federal government is taking a road trip, dubbed the 2010 Census Portrait of America Road Tour, to try to convince “hard-to-count audiences” to participate…

  • Integrating Multiple Identities: Multiracials and Asian-Americans in the United States (Review Essay)

    Integrating Multiple Identities: Multiracials and Asian-Americans in the United States (Review Essay) Canadian Journal of Sociology Volume 33, Number 2 (2008) pages 397-403 Wendy D. Roth, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia, Canada Kimberly McClain DaCosta, Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line. Stanford: Stanford University Press,…

  • Fixing the Color Line: The Mulatto, Southern Courts, and Racial Identity

    Fixing the Color Line: The Mulatto, Southern Courts, and Racial Identity American Quarterly Volume 53, Number 3 (September 2001) pages 420-451 E-ISSN: 1080-6490 Print ISSN: 0003-0678 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2001.0033 Teresa Zackodnik, Professor of English University of Alberta, Canada In July 1857 Abby Guy sued for her freedom and that of her four children in an Arkansas…

  • Researching Mixed Heritage: Professors Study Racial Identification Questions

    Researching Mixed Heritage: Professors Study Racial Identification Questions inside California State University, Fullerton 2009-11-02 Mikel Hogan, Anthropologist, Chair and Professor of Human Services California State University, Fullerton H. Rika Houston, Professor of Marketing California State University, Los Angeles Although racial identification has been a part of the U.S. Census policy since its inception, neither race…