Category: Media Archive

  • Mammy versus mulatta: A rhetorical analysis of the act of passing and the influence of controlling images in Fannie Hurst’s “Imitation of Life” Arizona State University May 2010 189 pages Publication Number: AAT 3407107 ISBN: 9781109743265 Allison Parker A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy Fannie Hurst’s…

  • Métis/Mulâtre, Mulato, Mulatto, Negro, Moreno, Mundele Kaki, Black,… The Wanderings and Meanderings of Identities Chapter in: Problematizing Blackness: Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States Routledge 2003-09-30 240 pages Edited by Jean Muteba Rahier, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African & African Diaspora Studies Florida International University Percey C. Hintzen, Professor of African…

  • Medieval black Briton found The Times of London 2010-05-02 Gillian Passmore A SKELETON uncovered in the ruins of a friary is the earliest physical evidence of a black person living in Britain in medieval times.   The remains of a man, found in the friary in Ipswich, Suffolk, which was destroyed by Henry VIII, have…

  • But Don’t Call Me White: Mixed Race Women Exposing Nuances of Privilege and Oppression Politics Sense Publishers September 2011 258 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-94-6091-692-2 Paperback ISBN 978-94-6091-691-5 Silvia Cristina Bettez, Assistant Professor of Cultural Foundations School of Education University of North Carolina, Greensboro Highlighting the words and experiences of 16 mixed race women (who have…

  • Mixed-race numbers double since 2000 The Tuscaloosa News Tuscaloosa, Alabama 2011-10-04 Dana Beyerle, Montgomery Bureau Chief More than twice as many people in Alabama say they are of two races than 10 years earlier MONTGOMERY | Alabama’s black population increased slightly between 2000 and 2010, but the number of people claiming mixed-race status more than…

  • This paper argues that the visually mixed-race person has a certain direct ability to challenge the binary and its racist logic. Furthermore, this paper goes on to offer a unique interpretation of where power for working against a racially oppressive system lies within critical mixed-race theory.

  • ‘Going out of stock’: Mulattoes and Levantines in Italian literature and cinema of the Fascist period University of Connecticut 2008 255 pages Publication Number: AAT 3329116 ISBN: 9780549826118 Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut My dissertation examines,…

  • Race and Class in Political Science Michigan Journal of Race and Law Volume 11, Issue 1 (Fall 2005) pages 99-114 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University As a discipline, political science tends to have a split personality on the issue of whether…

  • Who Will You Let Me Be? Race, Ethnicity, and Me: Autobiographical Reflections by Trinity University Students Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas Fall 2008 Claire Murphy-Cook Race, Ethnicity, and Me is a collection of autobiographical essays written by Trinity University students as an assignment for a course taught by Professor David Spener in the Department of…