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  • Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century

    “Race and the Cherokee Nation” examines how leaders of the Cherokee Nation fostered a racial ideology through the regulation of interracial marriage. By defining and policing interracial sex, nineteenth-century Cherokee lawmakers preserved political sovereignty, delineated Cherokee identity, and established a social hierarchy.

  • Legislating Women’s Sexuality: Cherokee Marriage Laws in the Nineteenth Century

    Legislating Women’s Sexuality: Cherokee Marriage Laws in the Nineteenth Century Journal of Social History Volume 38, Number 2, Winter 2004 E-ISSN: 1527-1897 Print ISSN: 0022-4529 DOI: 10.1353/jsh.2004.0144 Fay A. Yarbrough, Associate Professor of History University of Oklahoma During the first half of the nineteenth century, the Cherokee Nation passed many laws to regulate marriage and…

  • The Rule of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance

    The Rule of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance Temple University Press November 2002 256 pages Cloth EAN: 978-1-56639-981-4, ISBN: 1-56639-981-5 Paper: EAN: 978-1-56639-982-1, ISBN: 1-56639-982-3 Steve Martinot, Adjunct Professor San Francisco State University A significant re-writing of the history of class formation in the US An important history of the way class formed in the US,…

  • Multiracial Recognition in the 2000 Census: A Personal Perpective

    Multiracial Recognition in the 2000 Census: A Personal Perpective Perspectives Winter 2003 pages 48-58 Ikeita Cantú Hinojosa, JD, MSW National Women’s Law Center, Washington, D.C The census classification scheme chosen for race and ethnicity has become a prominent social fact in its own right and involves serious political and cultural consequences beyond its explicit policy…

  • Nooksack Tribe member explores multiracial culture

    Nooksack Tribe member explores multiracial culture The Bellingham Herald 2009-09-28 Dean Kahn Louie Gong grew up eating American Indian bread for breakfast and Chinese dinners cooked on a camp stove. In the evening, his Chinese and native relatives got together for mah-jongg. Gong’s mother was of French and Scottish descent. His father was half Chinese,…

  • ‘Multiracial Identity’ documentary film and discussion

    ‘Multiracial Identity’ documentary film and discussion Portland State University 228 Smith Union Wednesday, 2010-03-03, from 18:30-21:00 PST (Local Time) This new documentary explores the social and political impact of adding a Multiracial Category (the fastest growing demographic in America) as a stand-alone racial group on the US Census. Different racial and cultural groups see multiracialism…

  • Multiracial Politics or the Politics of Being Multiracial?: Racial Theory, Civic Engagement, and Political Participation in a Contemporary Society

    Multiracial Politics or the Politics of Being Multiracial?: Racial Theory, Civic Engagement, and Political Participation in a Contemporary Society Jungmiwha Bullock University of Southern California This dissertation is an interdisciplinary, multi-method, and multi-site project that investigates where race as a social construction and outdated biological explanations of race contradict in the twenty-first century, using grassroots…

  • Engineering American society: the lesson of eugenics

    Engineering American society: the lesson of eugenics Nature Reviews Genetics Volume 1, November 2000 pages 153-158 David Micklos DNA Learning Centre Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York Elof Carlson, Professor Emeritus State University of New York, Stony Brook We stand at the threshold of a new century, with the whole human genome stretched out before…

  • Watson [Program] Will Allow Reid to Study Issues Multi-Racial People Face

    Watson [Program] Will Allow Reid to Study Issues Multi-Racial People Face Davidson University Davidson, North Carolina 2007-04-02 Rachel Andoga “When I went abroad to Strasbourg, France, I remember meeting everybody in my program on the plane, and this one girl said to me, ‘So, can we just get this out of the way—what are you?’”…

  • Free at Last: The secret of Esie Mae Washington Williams is out, but she still doesn’t have full control over her story

    Free at Last: The secret of Esie Mae Washington Williams is out, but she still doesn’t have full control over her story Bloomington Herald-Times 2004-02-14 Courtesy of: Black Film Center/Archive Indiana University Audrey T. McCluskey, Director Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Indiana University After 78 years of harboring a less than well-kept secret, Essie Mae Washington-Williams…