Category: Book/Video Reviews

  • Why Are People Different?: Multiracial Families in Picture Books and the Dialogue of Difference The Lion and the Unicorn Volume 25, Number 3, September 2001 pages 412-426 E-ISSN: 1080-6563 Print ISSN: 0147-2593 DOI: 10.1353/uni.2001.0037 Karen Sands-O’Connor The issue of race has often been contentious in children’s literature, from controversies over Twain‘s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,…

  • Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance (review) Legacy Volume 26, Number 1 (2009) pages 182-184 E-ISSN: 1534-0643 Print ISSN: 0748-4321 DOI: 10.1353/leg.0.0069 Martha Jane Nadell, Associate Professor Brooklyn College of the City University of New York Cherene Sherrard-Johnson opens her provocative and intriguing book, Portraits of the…

  • The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice (Review) by Ronald R. Sundstrom SUNY Press 2008, 190pp., $24.95 (pbk.) ISBN: 9780791475867 Notre Dame Philisophical Reviews 2009-06-29 Reviewed by Lucius T. Outlaw (Jr.) Vanderbilt University The United States is undergoing the most profound demographic changes in the country’s history so that in a few…

  • A New Take On A Old Idea: Do We Need Multiracial Studies? Du Bois Review: Social Science Review on Race Volume 3, Issue 2 (September 2006) pages 437-447 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X06060280 Victor Thompson, Assistant Professor of Sociology Rider University, Lawrenceville, New Jersery Publications about multiracial identity and the multiracial population increased significantly prior to the 2000…