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  • Obama’s Race: The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America

    Barack Obama’s presidential victory naturally led people to believe that the United States might finally be moving into a post-racial era. “Obama’s Race”—and its eye-opening account of the role played by race in the election—paints a dramatically different picture.

  • ‘The suffering black male body and the threatened white female body’: ambiguous bodies in Candyman

    ‘The suffering black male body and the threatened white female body’: ambiguous bodies in Candyman The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies Issue 9, February 2011 Lucy Fife Donaldson University of Reading Race is not a subject often directly encountered in the horror film, despite the highly charged conflict of black and white constituting…

  • Somewhere between Jim Crow & Post-Racialism: Reflections on the Racial Divide in America Today

    Somewhere between Jim Crow & Post-Racialism: Reflections on the Racial Divide in America Today Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Volume 140, Number 2, Spring 2011, Race, Inequality & Culture, Volume 2 pages 11-36 Lawrence D. Bobo, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences Harvard University In…

  • Race in America: Restructuring Inequality: Intergroup Race Relation

    Race in America: Restructuring Inequality: Intergroup Race Relation Center on Race & Social Problems School of Social Work The University of Pittsburgh 2010 29 pages Editors: Larry E. Davis, Dean and Donald M. Henderson Professor of Social Work and Director of the Center on Race and Social Problems University of Pittsburgh Ralph Bangs, Associate Director…

  • Science must not invent new myths about race

    Science must not invent new myths about race London Evening Standard 2009-11-16 Lindsay Johns Science and race have never been easy bedfellows. Since Victorian times, when Western scientific advancement was used as an intellectual and moral justification for European colonial expansion, science or pseudo-science has occupied an uncomfortable place in our understanding of race. Yet…

  • Reactions in the Field: Interviews with Helping Professionals Who Work with Biracial Children and Adolescents

    Reactions in the Field: Interviews with Helping Professionals Who Work with Biracial Children and Adolescents University of Cincinnati 2002 277 pages Michele Neace Page A dissertation submitted to the University of Cincinnati in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTORATE OF EDUCATION (Ed.D.) The number of interracial couples and marriages are growing…

  • To Be Suddenly White: Literary Realism and Racial Passing

    “To Be Suddenly White” explores the troubled relationship between literary passing and literary realism, the dominant aesthetic motivation behind the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century ethnic texts considered in this study.

  • Racial Socialization of Biracial Adolescents

    Racial Socialization of Biracial Adolescents Kent State University May 2006 158 pages Ja’Nitta Marbury Marbury & Associates, University Heights, Ohio A dissertation submitted to the Kent State University Graduate School of Education, Health and Human Services in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The purpose in conducting this research…

  • Charles Waddell Chesnutt and the Solution to the Race Problem

    Charles Waddell Chesnutt and the Solution to the Race Problem Negro American Literature Forum Volume 3, Number 2 (Summer, 1969) pagess 52-56 June Socken Charles Waddell Chesnutt, the first American Negro short story writer and novelist of recognized professional quality, squarely faced the problem of Negro-White relations in America.   Although his short story “The Wife…

  • Comparing Biracials And Monoracials: Psychological Well-Being And Attitudes Toward Multiracial People

    Comparing Biracials And Monoracials: Psychological Well-Being And Attitudes Toward Multiracial People Ohio State University 2008 108 pages Peter J. Adams DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University The study of biracial individuals and their unique experience has been limited.…