Category: Book/Video Reviews

  • Tales of the struggles, successes of the racially mixed [Book Review] The Boston Globe 2011-05-21 Jan Stuart In the final offering of Danzy Senna’s new short story collection, “You Are Free,’’ a racially mixed woman sits in a bustling LA fast-food joint over a plate of macaroni and cheese, counting the mixed-race couples enjoying their…

  • Stories of Biracial America The New York Times 2011-05-06 Polly Rosenwaike Barack Obama makes two appearances in Danzy Senna’s first story collection, “You Are Free”: in a photograph on an administrator’s desk at an exclusive preschool, and on the bumper sticker of a BMW. Seeing that BMW, the narrator of the story “Replacement Theory” observes,…

  • Linda Martín-Alcoff: Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self [Review] Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006-06-22 Linda Martín-Alcoff, Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self, Oxford University Press, 2006, 326pp., ISBN 0195137353. Ronald Sundstrom, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of San Francisco Linda Martín Alcoff’s book, Visible Identities, offers a conception of social identities…

  • Hybridity gets fashionable Andréia Azevedo Soares LabLit.com: the culture of science fiction & fact 2009-10-24 The novel White Teeth offers a different perspective on science Even if you haven’t read the novel White Teeth by Zadie Smith, you probably remember it—unless you were lying comatose at the beginning of this century. White Teeth was considered…

  • Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Review: Spickard] American Studies Volume 50, No. 1/2: Spring/Summer 2009 pages 125-127 Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism. Jared Sexton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2008. One of the major developments in ethnic studies over…

  • Mar Gallego 2003: Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance: Identity Politics and Textual Strategies. Forum for European Contributions in African American Studies. Münster: Lit Verlag. 214 pp. [Review] Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies Volume 26, Number 1 (2004) Isabel Soto García Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia  (UNED) In her wide-ranging…

  • Mar Gallego. Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance: Identity, Politics and Textual Strategies [Review] African American Review Volume 38 (Winter 2004) pages 720-723 Mar Gallego. Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance: Identity, Politics and Textual Strategies. Hamburg: Lit Verlag Munster, 2003. 214 pp. Zhou Yupei Until very recently, novels of passing that appeared during the…

  • Nonetheless, correctly and jointly, these articles recognize that we live in a society dominated and dictated by white supremacy. To understand multiracial Americans, we must place individuals with this identity within this context. Additionally, this collection does what no other has: It includes in this recognition the role that class can and does play when…

  • Book explores racial identification The Post and Courier Charleston, South Carolina 2011-04-24 Karen Spain, legal writer based in Nashville The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey From Black to White. By Daniel J. Sharfstein. Penguin. 416 pages. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, “The Invisible Line” is a fascinating history of how three…

  • Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? [Review: Johnson] American Anthropologist Volume 110, Issue 1 (March 2008) pp. 79–80 ISSN 0002-7294; online ISSN 1548-1433 DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2008.00013.x Amanda Walker Johnson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? G. Reginald Daniel.…