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  • Will “Multiracial”: Survive to the Next Generation?: The Racial Classification of Children of Multiracial Parents

    Will “Multiracial”: Survive to the Next Generation?: The Racial Classification of Children of Multiracial Parents Social Forces Volume 86, Number 2 (December 2007) pages 821-849 DOI: 10.1353/sof.2008.0007 Jenifer L. Bratter, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute for Urban Research Rice University Will multiracial identification resonate with future generations? Using the 2000 U.S. Census,…

  • “The Ineffaceable Curse of Cain”: Racial Marking and Embodiment in Pinky

    “The Ineffaceable Curse of Cain”: Racial Marking and Embodiment in Pinky Camera Obscura 43 (Volume 15, Number 1), 2000 pp. 94-121 Elspeth Kydd Look at my fingers, are not the nails of a bluish tinge . . . that is the ineffaceable curse of Cain . . . Dion Boucicault, The Octoroon, or Life in…

  • “Miscegenation” Making Race in America

    In “Miscegenation,” Elise Lemire reads these literary and visual depictions for what they can tell us about the connection between the racialization of desire and the social construction of race.

  • Mestizo Democracy: The Politics of Crossing Borders

    Mestizo Democracy: The Politics of Crossing Borders Texas A&M University Press 2003 320 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-58544-346-8 John Francis Burke, Professor of Political Science and Chair University of St. Thomas, Houston Foreword by Virgilio Elizondo It can come as no surprise that the ethnic makeup of the American population is rapidly changing.…

  • Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850–2000

    In this broadly conceived exploration of how people represent identity in the Americas, Suzanne Bost argues that mixture has been central to the definition of race in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean since the nineteenth century.

  • New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States

    New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States Louisiana State University Press 1980 240 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2035-4 Joel Williamson, Lineberger Professor in the Humanities University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill New People is an insightful historical analysis of the miscegenation of American whites and blacks from colonial times to the present,…

  • Impurity of Blood: Defining Race in Spain, 1870-1930

    Impurity of Blood: Defining Race in Spain, 1870-1930 Louisiana State University Press Published: December 2009 288 pages Trim: 6 x 9 Illustrations: 1 map Cloth ISBN: 13: 978-0-8071-3516-7 Joshua Goode, Professor of History and Cultural Studies Claremont Graduate University, California Although Francisco Franco courted the Nazis as allies during the Spanish Civil War in the…

  • What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America

    Is race something we know when we see it? In 1857, Alexina Morrison, a slave in Louisiana, ran away from her master and surrendered herself to the parish jail for protection. Blue-eyed and blond, Morrison successfully convinced white society that she was one of them.

  • From exclusion and alienation to a ‘multi-racial community’: The image of the métis in New Caledonian literature

    From exclusion and alienation to a ‘multi-racial community’: The image of the métis in New Caledonian literature International Journal of Francophone Studies ISSN: 13682679 Volume 8 Issue 3 December 2005 DOI: 10.1386/ijfs.8.3.305/1 Peter Brown  In her 2005 New Year’s greetings, Marie-Noëlle Thémereau, the President of the New Caledonian government, expressed her confidence in the future…

  • Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption

    Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption Vintage an imprint of Random House, Inc. Academic Resources 2003 688 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-375-70264-8 (0-375-70264-4) Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law Harvard Law School From the author of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word and Race, Crime, and the Law—a tour de force…