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  • Biracial cohabitation in Miss. is old news

    Biracial cohabitation in Miss. is old news Desoto Times Tribune 2011-04-27 Bill Minor, Syndicated Columnist (Covering Mississippi politics for more than 50 years.) Mississippi Republicans dismissed as Democratic hogwash a recent report of a poll showing that nearly half of the state’s GOPers believed interracial marriages should be illegal. The poll—showing that 46 percent of…

  • Playing Games with Race

    NOTE: This article expands on a comment on Prof. Hortense Spillers’ article “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s, Too” published on The Feminist Wire on February 25, 2011. Omar Ricks would like to thank Prof. Spillers for inviting his contribution to The Feminist Wire.

  • Racial melting pot won’t end social disparities

    Racial melting pot won’t end social disparities San Francisco Chronicle 2012-02-12 Brenda Payton, Lecturer in Journalism San Francisco State University I looked at the room full of San Francisco State University students and saw the beginning of the end of race as we have defined it.   If that sounds a little over-the-top, here’s some…

  • Not Another Remix: How Obama Became the First Hip-Hop President

    Not Another Remix: How Obama Became the First Hip-Hop President Journal of Popular Music Studies Volume 22, Issue 4, December 2010 pages 389–415 DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-1598.2010.01252.x Travis L. Gosa, Assistant Professor of Social Science at Cornell University Cornell University January 20, 2009 marked the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama as the first African-American president of the United…

  • Mama’s Baby, Papa’s, Too

    …We’ve been here before, and that is the disappointment. Reminded in the course of Saulny’s treatment that terms like “mulatto,” “once tinged with shame…is enjoying a comeback in some young circles” (1), one wonders what all the brouhaha about “post-racial” identity actually means, unless the new racialist reflexes are intended to be taken as parodic…

  • A House Divided: The Invisibility of the Multiracial Family

    A House Divided: The Invisibility of the Multiracial Family Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review Volume 44, Number 1 2009 pages 231-253 University of Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-26 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Professor of Law, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Scholar University of Iowa College of Law Jacob Willig-Onwuachi, Assistant Professor of Physics…

  • The Democracy and “Niggers”

    Summary: Attacks the Southern Democracy’s supposed distaste for “niggers,” and notes their close quarters with blacks at home, including the propagation of “half-niggers.”

  • Challenging Multiracial Identity

    What is multiracialism—and what are the theoretical consequences and practical costs of asserting a multiracial identity? Arguing that the multiracial movement bolsters, rather than subverts, traditional categories of race, Rainier Spencer critically assesses current scholarship in support of multiracial identity.

  • S’porean identity must include mixed-race kids

    S’porean identity must include mixed-race kids The Straits Times Singapore Forum Letters 2013-03-16 Peter Wadeley MRS MARIETTA Koh Ai-meng (“Citizens have every right to expect privileges”; last Saturday) claims that rising consciousness of what it means to be Singaporean should not be decried as chauvinistic or jingoistic. Last year, former president S R Nathan said…

  • “Founding Mothers:” White Mothers of Biracial Children in the Multiracial Movement (1979-2000)

    “Founding Mothers:” White Mothers of Biracial Children in the Multiracial Movement (1979-2000) Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut April 2012 142 pages Alicia Doo Castagno A thesis submitted to the faculty of Wesleyan University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Departmental Honors in American Studies TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements…