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  • Race in a Genetic World

    “I am an African American,” says Duana Fullwiley, “but in parts of Africa, I am white.” To do fieldwork as a medical anthropologist in Senegal, she says, “I take a plane to France, a seven- to eight-hour ride. My race changes as I cross the Atlantic. There, I say, ‘Je suis noire,’ and they say,…

  • Marcia Dawkins to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Marcia Dawkins to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #153 – Marcia Dawkins When: Wednesday, 2010-05-19…

  • Biracial Females’ Reflections on Racial Identity Development in Adolescence

    Biracial Females’ Reflections on Racial Identity Development in Adolescence Journal of Feminist Family Therapy Volume 18, Issue 4 (February 2007) pages 53 – 75 DOI: 10.1300/J086v18n04_03 Karia Kelch-Oliver Department of Counseling and Psychological Services Georgia State University Leigh A. Leslie, Associate Professor and Graduate Director Department of Family Studies University of Maryland As the number…

  • 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…

  • The Girl Who Fell from the Sky: A Novel

    The Girl Who Fell from the Sky: A Novel Algonquin Books 2010 256 pages ISBN-13: 9781565126800 Heidi W. Durrow This debut novel tells the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I. who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. With her strict African American grandmother as her new…

  • Biracial Identity: Beyond Black and White

    Biracial Identity: Beyond Black and White The Boston College Chronicle 2003-02-13 Volume 11, Number 11 Sean Smith, Chronicle Editor Sociologist’s expertise built on experience, not just scholarly inquiry The man in the next seat had been eyeing her furtively for a while, so Asst. Prof. Kerry Ann Rockquemore (Sociology) figured it was only a matter…

  • Two or Three Spectacular Mulatas and the Queer Pleasures of Overidentification

    Two or Three Spectacular Mulatas and the Queer Pleasures of Overidentification Camera Obscura Volume 23, Number 1 67 (2008) pages 113-143 DOI: 10.1215/02705346-2007-026 Hiram Perez, Assistant professor of English Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Building on feminist and queer scholarship on the relationship of film spectatorship to subjectivity, this essay conjectures subaltern spectatorships of the…

  • Social Work Practice and Lone White Mothers of Mixed-Parentage Children

    Social Work Practice and Lone White Mothers of Mixed-Parentage Children British Journal of Social Work Volume 40, Number 2 pages 391-406 DOI:10.1093/bjsw/bcn164 Vicki Harman, Lecturer in Social Policy and Social Work Royal Holloway, University of London This paper reports on empirical research involving focus groups with social workers in order to provide insight into their…

  • Reimagining The ‘Tragic Mulatto’ [Interview with Author Heidi W. Durrow]

    Reimagining The ‘Tragic Mulatto’ [Interview with Author Heidi W. Durrow] All Things Considered National Public Radio 2010-03-02 Michele Norris, Host All Things Considered Like so many children of mixed marriages, the author Heidi Durrow has often felt like she’s had to straddle two worlds. She is the daughter of a black serviceman and a white Danish…

  • NPR’s All Things Considered Interview with Heidi W. Durrow

    NPR’s All Things Considered Interview with Heidi W. Durrow All Things Considered National Public Radio 2010-03-02, 21:00 to 23:00Z Heidi W. Durrow Heidi W. Durrow, author of the new Bellwether Prize winning novel, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, is scheduled to be interviewed on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered today (Tuesday, March 2, 2010 between…