Category: United States

  • Greying, blue-eyed Walter White, for 16 years executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has a skin so light that he frequently has to explain that he is, in deed, a Negro. Last week, in the Saturday Review of Literature, Propagandist White talked openly about a subject many Negroes are…

  • The Perils of Compartmentalization Columbia Daily Spectator New York, New York Friday, 2008-09-26 Dennis Yang Teachers College When I arrived from California as an incoming graduate student at Teachers College, one of the first things I attempted to find was a large-scale supermarket—a task that proved to be more difficult than I had anticipated. Without…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Melissa Harris-Lacewell CAAS News Center for African American Studies Princeton University Spring 2008 Newsletter Pages 6-7 Dara-Lyn Shrager Melissa Harris-Lacewell smiles broadly when asked about Senator Barack Obama’s run for the democratic nomination for President. She is clearly a fan of both the man and his campaign.  As a former Chicagoan, who lived…

  • Princeton Professor tweets about  her views on mixed-race identity (Interview with Melissa Harris-Lacewell) Mixed Child: The Pulse of the Mixed Community 2009-07-29 Jeff Eddings MSNBC contributor, Princeton University’s Associate Professor of Politics & African American Studies and author of Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought Melissa Harris-Lacewell had a frank  discussion…

  • On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American West Saturday, 2010-02-27, 08:15 – 16:30 CST (Local Time) Dallas Hall, McCord Auditorium, 3rd Floor Southern Methodist University 3225 University Blvd. Dallas, TX 75205 Announcing the 2009-10 Annual Public Symposium Co-sponsored by: The Center for the Southwest at the University of…

  • Mixed Race Hollywood (review) [Emily D. Edwards] Journal of Film and Video Volume 61, Number 4 (Winter 2009) E-ISSN: 1934-6018 Print ISSN: 0742-4671 DOI: 10.1353/jfv.0.0051 Emily D. Edwards, Professor of Broadcasting and Cinema University of North Carolina, Greensboro Mixed Race Hollywood is a collection of essays that could not be timelier. As popular media, journalists,…

  • Oye Como Va! Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music Temple University Press December 2009 238 pp 6×9 1 figure 5 halftones Paper EAN: 978-1-43990-090-1; ISBN: 1-4399-0090-6 Cloth EAN: 978-1-43990-089-5; ISBN: 1-4399-0089-2 Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies Tufts University Listen Up! When the New York-born Tito Puente composed “Oye Como…

  • Reloaded: Representing Asian Women Beyond Hollywood Thursday, 2010-01-28, 16:00-17:30 PST (Local Time) University of California, Berkeley Center for Race & Gender 691 Barrows Hall Elaine H. Kim, Professor of Asian American Studies University of California, Berkeley Join Prof. Elaine Kim for a screening and discussion of the new 30 minute documentary film, Reloaded: Representing Asian…

  • What are you? For multiracial students, declaring an identity can be complicated Princeton Alumni Weekly Princeton University 2010-01-13 Issue Maya Rock (Class of 2002) In my first few weeks at Princeton, I became accustomed to fielding questions: What’s your background? Where are your parents from? And the strikingly ­existential: What are you?   What the questioners…

  • Patrolling Borders: Hybrids, Hierarchies and the Challenge of Mestizaje Political Research Quarterly Vol. 57, No. 4 pages 597-607 (2004) DOI: 10.1177/106591290405700408 Cristina Beltran, Associate Professor of Political Science Haverford College “Hybridity” has become a popular concept among scholars of critical race theory and identity, particularly those studying Chicano identity. Some scholars claim that hybridity—premised on…