Category: United States

  • Fulbeck inspires students to be proud of their heritage The State Hornet The Voice of Sacramento State 2010-02-09 Jennifer Siopongco Kip Fulbeck will launch the Multi-Cultural Center’s mixed-heritage series at 7 p.m. Feb. 18 in the Sac[ramento] State’s University Union with his lecture titled “Race, Sex and Tattoos: The Kip Fulbeck Experience.”   Spring semester…

  • Ambiguity and Ambivalence in the Voting Booth and Beyond: A Social-Psychological Perspective on Racial Attitudes and Behavior in the Obama Era Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 6, Issue 01, March 2009 pages 71-82 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X09090067 Destiny Peery Department of Psychology Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Galen V. Bodenhausen, Lawyer Taylor Professor of…

  • Research Report: Black + White = Black: Hypodescent in Reflexive Categorization of Racially Ambiguous Faces Psychological Science Volume 19, Number 10 (2008) pages 973-977 Destiny Peery Department of Psychology, Northwestern University Galen V. Bodenhausen, Lawyer Taylor Professor of Psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences Northwestern University Historically, the principle of hypodescent specified…

  • New Group Embraces Diversity Daily Nexus University of California, Santa Barbara Issue 76, Volume 90 2010-02-10 Ali Limonadi, Reporter A new student organization at UCSB hopes to create a safe space and open forum for multicultural, mixed-race and mixed-ethnicity students. The Mixed Student Union registered as an official group with the Office of Student Life…

  • Ethnic and Urban Intersections in the Classroom: Latino Students, Hybrid Identities, and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Multicultural Perspectives Volume 9, Issue 3 (July 2007) pages 21-28 DOI: 10.1080/15210960701443599 Jason G. Irizarry, Assistant Professor of Multicultural Education Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut Drawing from data collected through classroom observations and in-depth interviews, this article describes…

  • Biography of famous black abolitionist and voting rights advocate, Robert Purvis.

  • Racial Identity in Balance The Chronicle of Higher Education 2004-01-07 Naomi J. Miller, Professor of English and the Study of Women and Gender; Director of Institutional Diversity and Assistant to the President Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts I consider myself multiracial. Technically, I am half Japanese, a quarter Czech, and a quarter English-Dutch. By definition, then,…

  • PAGE ONE — No Biological Basis For Race, Scientists Say / Distinctions prove to be skin deep San Fransisco Gate Chronicle 1998-02-23 Charles Petit, Chronicle Science Writer This is one of a series of articles in “About Race,” a year-long public journalism project in which The Chronicle, KRON-TV, BayTV and KQED-FM are examining various aspects…

  • Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance University of North Carolina Press April 2004 288 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 19 illus., 2 charts, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-2868-7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5531-7 Daylanne K. English, Associate Professor of English & Chair Macalester College Challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American…

  • Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction University of North Carolina Press December 2004 416 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 22 illus., notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-2902-8 Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5567-6 Michele Mitchell, Associate Professor of History New York University Between 1877 and 1930–years rife with tensions over citizenship, suffrage, immigration,…