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  • Rethinking inclusion and exclusion: the question of mixed-race presence in late colonial India

    Rethinking inclusion and exclusion: the question of mixed-race presence in late colonial India University of Sussex Journal of Contemporary History Issue Five 2002 pp. 1-22 Satoshi Mizutani This article examines the ambivalent meanings of mixed-race presence in late colonial India (from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries). In doing so it contributes insights for pursuing…

  • Race and Reality: What Everyone Should Know about Our Cultural Diversity

    Race and Reality: What Everyone Should Know about Our Cultural Diversity Prometheus Books 2009-12-22 336 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-59102-767-6 Guy P. Harrison The concept of race has had a powerful impact on history and continues to shape the world today in profound ways. Most people derive their attitudes about race from their family, culture, and…

  • The Obama Issue

    The Obama Issue Journal of Visual Culture August 2009 Volume 8, No. 2 Online ISSN: 1741-2994 Print ISSN: 1470-4129 The August 2009 edition of Journal of Visual Culture is focused on president Barack Obama. Table of Contents Marquard Smith and JVC Editorial Group Questionnaire on Barack Obama pp. 123-124 W.J.T. Mitchell Obama as Icon pp.…

  • An Unexpected Blackness

    An Unexpected Blackness Transition: An International Review Feb 2009 No. 100 Pages 112-132 Naomi Pabst, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Studies Yale University What does it mean to be of African descent while residing in Canada, where the hypodescent rule does not hold sway?  Naomi Pabst reflects upon the complexity of life…

  • A New Multicultural Population: Creating Effective Partnerships With Multiracial Families

    A New Multicultural Population: Creating Effective Partnerships With Multiracial Families Intervention in School and Clinic Published: 2009-11-01 Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 124-131 DOI: 10.1177/1053451209340217 Monica R. Brown, Assistant Professor (mobrown@nmsu.edu) Department of Special Education/Communication Disorders New Mexico State University Multiracial families make up the fastest growing demographic in the United States.  Approximately 9% of…

  • Using the extended case method to explore identity in a multiracial context

    Using the extended case method to explore identity in a multiracial context Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 32, Number 9 November 2009 pp. 1599-1618 DOI: 10.1080/01419870902749117 Gina Miranda Samuels, Assistant Professor School of Social Service Administration University of Chicago Increasingly, multiracial research calls upon scholars to reconcile and clarify their stances on race as a…

  • Politicking the personal: examining academic literature and British National Party beliefs and wishes about intimate interracial relationships and mixed heritage

    Politicking the personal: examining academic literature and British National Party beliefs and wishes about intimate interracial relationships and mixed heritage Information & Communications Technology Law Volume 18, Issue 2 June 2009 pages 83 – 98 DOI: 10.1080/13600830902814992 Mike Sutton School of Social Sciences Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK Barbara Perry Faculty of Criminology Justice and…

  • Mixed Race Marriages

    Mixed Race Marriages The Milken Institute Review Second Quarter 2009 William “Bill” H. Frey, Senior Fellow in Demography/Senior Fellow in Metropolitan Policy Milken Institute Brookings Institution in Washington While Barack Obama’s election was a signal event for many reasons, the fact that Americans chose someone of mixed race isn’t quite as startling as it first…

  • Belonging to Britain

    Belonging to Britain The Munk Centre for International Studies University of Toronto 2008-11-14 Video Length: 00:46:36 Hazel V. Carby, Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies Yale University In her lecture, “Belonging to Britain”, Hazel Carby looks at the historic relationship between England and Jamaica, including the history of the slave…

  • The Sociological Significance of President Barack Obama

    The Sociological Significance of President Barack Obama The American Sociological Association Mini-Symposium San Francisco, California 2009-08-08 through 2009-08-09 The historic campaign and election of Barack Obama constitutes a compelling and timely context for examining the program theme. In response, the 2009 ASA Program Committee and ASA President Patricia Hill Collins have organized a mini-symposium, a…