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  • Patrolling Borders: Hybrids, Hierarchies and the Challenge of Mestizaje

    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…

  • Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South

    Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South University of North Carolina Press March 1998 382 pages 6.125 x 9.25 8 tables, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-4712-1 Peter W. Bardaglio, Associate Professor of History Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland Winner of the 1996 James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians…

  • Adding up preoccupations about color, race in literature

    Adding up preoccupations about color, race in literature Emory Report Emory University 1999-02-22 Volume 51, Number 21 The class listed in Emory’s spring course atlas as “The Calculus of Color” might at first sound like an art class on color theory, but instructor Cassandra Jackson intends for her class to explore mulatto figures and miscegenation…

  • The Future of Ethnicity Classifications

    The Future of Ethnicity Classifications  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Volume 35, Issue 9 November 2009 pages 1417 – 1435 DOI: 10.1080/13691830903125901 Peter J. Aspinall, Senior Research Fellow Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent In the first decade of the twenty-first century, ‘diversity’ has emerged as a key value in its…

  • The Mercurial Nature and Abiding Power of Race: A Transnational Family Story

    The Mercurial Nature and Abiding Power of Race: A Transnational Family Story The American Historical Review Volume 108, Number 1 (February 2003) pages 84-118 Martha Hodes, Professor of History New York University There are many ways to expose the mercurial nature of racial classification. Scholars of U.S. history might note, for example, that the category…

  • Writing in 2010 about the Idea of Racial Identity

    Writing in 2010 about the Idea of Racial Identity The 17th Annual Oxford Conference for the Book (2010-03-04 through 2010-03-06) 2010-03-05, 13:30 – 15:00 EST (Local Time) Overby Center for Southern Journalism University of Mississippi Oxford, Mississippi Ted Ownby, Professor History and Southern Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture…

  • Multiracial Identity and the U.S. Census

    Multiracial Identity and the U.S. Census ProQuest Discovery Guides January 2010 Tyrone Nagai, Supervising Editor of Social Sciences ProQuest Introduction: What is Multiracial Identity?   Back on April 23, 1997, 21-year-old golfer Tiger Woods made headlines on the Oprah Winfrey Show when he described his racial background as “Cablinasian,” an abbreviation representing his “Caucasian,” “Black,”…

  • The Virginia Racial Integrity Act Revisited: The Plecker-Laughlin correspondence: 1928-1930

    The Virginia Racial Integrity Act Revisited: The Plecker-Laughlin correspondence: 1928-1930 American Journal of Medical Genetics Volume 16, Issue 4 Pages 483 – 492 December 1983 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320160407 Philip Reilly University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas   Margery Shaw University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas Correspondence between Walter Ashby Plecker, Virginia State Registrar of…

  • Options: Racial/Ethnic Identification of Children of Intermarried Couples

    Options: Racial/Ethnic Identification of Children of Intermarried Couples Social Science Quarterly (September 2004) Volume 85, Issue 3 Pages 746 – 766 DOI: 10.1111/j.0038-4941.2004.00243.x Zhenchao Qian, Professor of Sociology Ohio State University Objective. Whites of various European ethnic backgrounds usually have weak ethnic attachment and have options to identify their ethnic identity (Waters, 1990). What about children…