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  • “They Call It Marriage”: the Louisiana Interracial Family and the Making of American Legitimacy

    “They Call It Marriage”: the Louisiana Interracial Family and the Making of American Legitimacy Book Manuscript In Progress Diana Irene Williams, Assistant Professor of History, Law and Gender Studies University of Southern California Winner of the 2008 William Nelson Cromwell Dissertation Prize in Legal History. “They Call it Marriage” examines interracial marriage between black women…

  • Professor G. Reginald Daniel to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Professor G. Reginald Daniel 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: #146 – Professor G. Reginald Daniel When: Wednesday,…

  • Multiracial students speak out on campus

    Multiracial students speak out on campus The Vermont Cynic 2010-03-15 Patrick Dowd The question of racial identity isn’t always black and white.  Multiracial students on campus  say that struggle for identity extends beyond stereotypes and name mispronunciations, according to the four student panelists who spoke on behalf of UVM’s multicultural students at Harris/Millis. “Since I…

  • Taboo: Essays on Culture and Education

    Taboo: Essays on Culture and Education Peter Lang Publishing Group 2010 250 pages Paparback ISBN: 978-1-4331-0840-2 Edited by: Shirley R. Steinberg McGill University Lindsay Cornish Taboo: Essays on Culture and Education is a collection of 15 compelling and controversial articles from the pages of Taboo: The Journal of Cultural Studies and Education. Scholars including Henry…

  • Census and Consensus? A Historical Examination of the US Census Racial Terminology Used for American Residents of African Ancestry

    Census and Consensus? A Historical Examination of the US Census Racial Terminology Used for American Residents of African Ancestry Peter Lang Publishing Group 2005-07-31 232 pages 20.6 x 14.7 x 1.5 cm US-ISBN: 978-0-8204-7667-4 Iman Makeba Laversuch, Lecturer University of Cologne, Germany Colored, Black, Negro, Mulatto, Quadroon, Octoroon, African American. This book provides an in-depth…

  • The Monochrome Society: Americanness and the unsung agreement across racial lines

    The Monochrome Society: Americanness and the unsung agreement across racial lines Policy Review Hoover Institution Stanford University Feburary & March 2001 Amitai Etzioni Various demographers and other social scientists have been predicting for years that the end of the white majority in the United States is near, and that there will be a majority of…

  • The age of Obama: The changing place of minorities in British and American society

    The age of Obama: The changing place of minorities in British and American society Manchester University Press 2010-04-01 192 pages 234x156mm Hardback ISBN: 9780719082771; Paperback ISBN: 9780719082788 Tom Clark, Columnist The Guardian Robert D. Putnam, and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy Harvard University Edward Fieldhouse, Professor of Social and Political Science and Director of…

  • Homelands and Indigenous Identities in a Multiracial Era

    Homelands and Indigenous Identities in a Multiracial Era Social Science Research Article In Press, Accepment Manuscript Online: 2010-02-17 Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center University of Minnesota Although multiple race responses are now allowed on federal censuses and surveys, most interracially married single-race parents report a single race for…

  • Beyond Black and White: A film by Nisma Zaman

    Beyond Black and White: A film by Nisma Zaman Women Make Movies 1994 28 minutes Color, 16mm/DVD Order No. W99431 Beyond Black and White is a personal exploration of the filmmaker’s bicultural heritage (Caucasian and Asian/Begali) in which she relates her experiences to those of five other women from various biracial backgrounds. In lively interviews…

  • Blood, Race, and National Identity: Scientific and Popular Discourses

    Blood, Race, and National Identity: Scientific and Popular Discourses Journal of Medical Humanities Volume 23, Numbers 3-4 (December, 2002) Pages 171-186 Print ISSN: 1041-3545; Online ISSN: 1573-3645 DOI: 10.1023/A:1016890117447 Allyson Polsky McCabe, Lecturer in English Yale University This essay examines the symbolic significance of blood in the twentieth century and its role in determining the…