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  • Laura Kina, visual artist and scholar of Asian-American and Mixed-Race Studies

    Laura Kina, visual artist and scholar of Asian-American and Mixed-Race Studies APA Compass KBOO FM, Community Radio Portland, Oregon 2011-09-02 Andrew Yeh, Host Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University APA Compass’ Andrew Yeh speaks with artist Laura Kina. Download to the interview (00:15:50) here.

  • Blood Simple: The politics of miscegenation

    The “Negro problem,” wrote Norman Podhoretz in 1963, would not be solved unless color itself disappeared: “and that means not integration, it means assimilation, it means—let the brutal word come out—miscegenation.”

  • Up Front: Brent Staples

    Up Front: Brent Staples Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2011-09-02 The Editors Brent Staples, who reviews Randall Kennedy’s “Persist­ence of the Color Line” in this issue, is working on a history of mixed-race identity in the United States. “One of the things that interested me in the last campaign,” Staples wrote in an…

  • The Too Black, Too White Presidency

    The Too Black, Too White Presidency The New York Times 2011-09-02 Brent Staples Randall Kennedy, The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency, New York: Pantheon Books, 2011. 322 pp. The next time you see Barack Obama gliding into a White House press conference, take note of that jazzy walk. It…

  • SOCI W 3277x: Post-Racial America?

    SOCI W 3277x: Post-Racial America? Barnard College, Columbia University Fall 2011 Alondra Nelson, Associate Professor of Sociology What is race? Is the US a post-racial society? Is such a society desirable? Is a post-racial society necessarily a just and egalitarian one? We consider these questions from ethnographic, historical, and theoretical perspectives. Topics discussed include intersectionality,…

  • “Are You Black or Are You Jewish?”: The New Identity Challenge

    “Are You Black or Are You Jewish?”: The New Identity Challenge Lilith Magazine Fall 1996 pages 21-29 Sarah Blustain Two or three times a week, on the streets of San Francisco, complete strangers walk up to Lisa Feldstein and I ask, “What are you?” She’s not Indian, South American, Puerto Rican or—her favorite suggestion—French. The…

  • The Consequence of Race Mixture: Racialised Barriers and the Politics of Desire

    These epigraphs should be considered heretical to the project of the contemporary multiracial movement in the United States Insofar as its proponents and intellectuals speak of the ‘the end(s) of race’, the concept of multiraciality prides itself on the trouble it supposedly causes to the white supremacist rage for order, that is, its ostensible violation…

  • “A Race of Mules”: Mixed-Bloods in Western American Fiction

    “A Race of Mules”: Mixed-Bloods in Western American Fiction The Canadian Journal of Native Studies Volume 15, Number 1 (1995) ISSN  0715-3244 pages 61-74 Brian Hubner The regional literature of the American west includes a wide variety of characters. One character is hard to find, however: the Métis or mixed blood, for these novels lack…

  • Pure mixed blood: The multiple identities of Amerasians in South Korea

    Pure mixed blood: The multiple identities of Amerasians in South Korea Indiana University February 2007 256 pages Publication Number: AAT 3253643 Sue-Je Lee Gage, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Ithaca University Submitted to the faculty of the University Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of …

  • Balancing Evils Judiciously: The Proslavery Writings of Zephaniah Kingsley

    For the first time, all the proslavery—but also pro-black—writings of Zephaniah Kingsley (1765-1843) appear together in one volume. Kingsley was a slave trader and the owner of a large plantation near Jacksonville in what was then Spanish East Florida. He married one of his slaves and had children with several others.