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  • Critical Whiteness Studies Symposium: Call for Papers

    Critical Whiteness Studies Symposium: Call for Papers Critical Whiteness Studies Symposium University of Iowa 2010-09-23 through 2010-09-24 Abstract Deadline: 2010-03-12 Keynote Speakers: David Roediger, Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Karyn McKinney, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Education, Human Development, & Social Sciences Penn State University, Altoona Abstract deadline…

  • 2010 African American Studies Symposium

    2010 African American Studies Symposium University of Texas at San Antonio 2010-04-16 The 3rd annual African American Studies Symposium is a one-day conference Friday, April 16, 2010, at the University of Texas at San Antonio. This year, the theme is ‘Politics and Black Popular Culture.’ We especially encourage papers on language, music, hair, art, film,…

  • Thinking about Race, Sexuality, and Marriage: A Roundtable on Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally

    Thinking about Race, Sexuality, and Marriage: A Roundtable on Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally American Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting Friday, 2010-01-10, 08:30-10:30 PST (Local Time) Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego Manchester Ballroom D (Hyatt) San Diego, California Thinking about Race, Sexuality, and Marriage: A Roundtable on Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally Chair: Eileen Boris,…

  • “El Destierro de los Chinos”: Popular Perspectives of Chinese-Mexican Interracial Marriage as Reflected in Poetry, Cartoon, Comedy, and Corridos

    “El Destierro de los Chinos”: Popular Perspectives of Chinese-Mexican Interracial Marriage as Reflected in Poetry, Cartoon, Comedy, and Corridos American Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting Friday, 2010-01-10 11:20 PST (Local Time) San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina Torrey 3 (Marriott) San Diego, California Robert Chao Romero, Assistant Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies University of California,…

  • Status, Race, and Marriage: French Continental Law versus French Colonial Law

    Status, Race, and Marriage: French Continental Law versus French Colonial Law American Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting Friday, 2010-01-08 14:30 PST (Local Time) Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego Manchester Ballroom F (Hyatt) San Diego, California Valérie Gobert-Sega École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France In its most traditional moral and legal conception, marriage…

  • Intimacy and the Atlantic World

    Intimacy and the Atlantic World American Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting Friday, 2010-01-08 14:50 PST (Local Time) Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego Manchester Ballroom F (Hyatt) San Diego, California Jennifer L. Palmer, Collegiate Assistant Professor of History University of Chicago In 1755 the merchant Aimé-Benjamin Fleuriau returned to his native city of La Rochelle, a…

  • Who And What You Are

    Who And What You Are Contexts Fall 2009 Vol. 8, No. 4 Pages 64–65 DOI 10.1525/ctx.2009.8.4.64 Sangyoub Park, Assistant Professor of Sociology Washburn University Barack Obama‘s presidency and changes in how the U.S. Census tracks race underline the importance of the social construction of race and ethnicity in the United States. Changes in our racial…

  • “What are You?”: Explaining Identity as a Goal of the Multiracial Hapa Movement

    “What are You?”: Explaining Identity as a Goal of the Multiracial Hapa Movement Social Problems Volume 56, Number 4 (November 2009) Pages 722–745 DOI 10.1525/sp.2009.56.4.722 Mary Bernstein, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut Marcie De la Cruz Empirical Education Inc. This article uses the Hapa movement as a case study in order to provide…

  • Being Multiracial in a Country that Sees Black and White

    Being Multiracial in a Country that Sees Black and White Interpolations: A Journal of First Year Writing Deparment of English, University of Maryland Fall 2009 Lavisha McClarin University of Maryland In America mixed race individuals are becoming more prominent in the media, politics and sports throughout the country. Some of the most popular mixed race…

  • Firsthand multlicultural experience

    Firsthand multlicultural experience The Daily Independent (Ashland, Kentucky) 2009-10-22 Mike James Ashland — When he brings up the fact that he is biracial, Elliott Lewis most often hears platitudes. Some of them are flattering, others not so much. The one that drives him nuts is the question, “What are you?” It’s one of the things he…