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  • How Multi-Ethnic People Identify Themselves

    How Multi-Ethnic People Identify Themselves Talk of The Nation National Public Radio 2010-12-20 00:30:17 Neal Conan, Host Guests Nikki Khanna, Assistant Professor of Sociology (and lead author, “Passing As Black: Racial Identity Work Among Biracial Americans”) University of Vermont Casey Gane-McCalla, Lead Blogger NewsOne Kip Fulbeck, Professor of Art (and author of Mixed: Portraits Of…

  • Erasure of Euro-Asian: Recovering Early Radicalism and Feminism in South Asia

    Erasure of Euro-Asian: Recovering Early Radicalism and Feminism in South Asia Women Unlimited 2009 312 pages 8.6 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches ISBN-10: 8188965405; ISBN-13: 978-8188965403 Kumari Jayawardena, Emeritus Associate Professor University of Colombo This book, focuses on the interaction between Asia and Europe in the wake of Portuguese, Dutch, French and British imperialism. It…

  • Passing as Black: Racial Identity Work among Biracial Americans

    Passing as Black: Racial Identity Work among Biracial Americans Social Psychology Quarterly Volume 73, Number 4 (Published online 2010-12-13) pages 380-397 DOI: 10.1177/0190272510389014 Nikki Khanna, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Vermont Cathryn Johnson, Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies Emory University Drawing on interview data with black-white biracial adults, we examine the…

  • Recasting The Half-Caste

    Recasting The Half-Caste Journal of Women’s History Volume 22, Number 4, Winter 2010 E-ISSN: 1527-2036 Print ISSN: 1042-7961 pages 263-267 Kumari Jayawardena In Sri Lanka, serious book reviews are not only few and far between, but authors also do not usually reply to reviews of their books. So while it was a real windfall to…

  • Reverse Passing? Kidding… Right?

    Reverse Passing? Kidding… Right? The Root 2010-12-14 Jenée Desmond-Harris A report that biracial people are denying their white parents seems absurd to me—but I’m paying attention anyway. Ever heard of Barack Obama? You know, the first black president? The one who won an election and near-deity status in the African-American community while openly discussing his…

  • Passing as Black: How Biracial Americans Choose Identity

    Passing as Black: How Biracial Americans Choose Identity Time Magazine: Healthland Friday, 2010-12-16 Meredith Melnick, Reporter and Producer The practice of passing—identifying with and presenting oneself as one race while denying ancestry of another—reached its peak during the Jim Crow era. Needless to say, the notion of having to “pass” as white is outdated and…

  • Defying the Civil Rights Lobby: The American Multiracial Movement

    Defying the Civil Rights Lobby: The American Multiracial Movement Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change University of Memphis April 2007 35 pages Kim M. Williams, Associate Professor of Public Policy Harvard University Throughout the 1990s a handful of advocates argued to stunning if partial success that it was both inaccurate and an affront to…

  • With Shades of Gray

    With Shades of Gray Emory Magazine Emory University Spring 2009: Coda: A Changing Country Reflections on the Inauguration of President Barack Obama Taharee Jackson, ’10 PhD The last thing I could afford to do was attend the presidential inauguration at the National Mall, but I simply couldn’t miss it. I had to go and represent…

  • Why Biracial Means Black: The History of Race in America Means Most Blacks Are Biracial to Some Degree

    Why Biracial Means Black: The History of Race in America Means Most Blacks Are Biracial to Some Degree The Root 2010-12-14 Lauren Williams, Associate Editor Checking a census box that says “black” doesn’t mean you’re denying your white ancestry. It’s just how we roll in America. When Halle Berry scored her milestone Oscar win in…

  • Passing for Black? Biracial Americans Are Increasingly ‘Passing for Black’

    Passing for Black?  Biracial Americans Are Increasingly ‘Passing for Black’ The Root 2010-12-14 Thomas Chatterton Williams A new study posits that black-white biracial adults are increasingly choosing, like President Obama, to emphasize their blackness. But in this country, “black” has always been a mongrel affair. It created a minor media frenzy last spring when President Barack…