Category: Media Archive

  • Star-Light, Star-Bright, Star Damn Near White: Mixed-Race Superstars The Journal of Popular Culture Volume 40, Issue 2 (April 2007) pages 217–237 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2007.00376.x Sika Alaine Dagbovie, Professor of English Florida Atlantic University In an episode of the “Chris Rock Show,” comedian Chris Rock searches the streets of Harlem to find out what people think of…

  • A phenomenological study of the experience of biracial identity development in Black and White individuals The Chicago School of Professional Psychology 2007-04-23 101 pages Publication Number: AAT 3312832 Niccole K. Brusa Racial identity literature neglects biracial identity development. Given the tremendous increase in interracial partnerships and biracial children in the United States over the past…

  • “The Ineffaceable Curse of Cain”: Racial Marking and Embodiment in Pinky Camera Obscura – 43 Volume 15, Number 1 (May 2000) pages 95-121 DOI: 10.1215/02705346-15-1_43-95 Elspeth Kydd, Senior Lecturer of Film Studies and Video Production University of the West of England, Bristol Look at my fingers, are not the nails of a bluish tinge ……

  • The Measure of America: How a rebel anthropologist waged war on racism The New Yorker 2004-03-08 18 pages Claudia Roth Peierpont Along with the Ferris wheel, the hamburger, Cracker Jack, Aunt Jemima, the zipper, Juicy Fruit, and the vertical file, the word “anthropology” was introduced to a vast number of Americans at the World’s Columbian…

  • Passing For Horror: Race, Fear, and Elia Kazan’s “Pinky” Genders: Presenting Innovative Work in the Arts, Humanities and Social Theories Issue 40 (2004) Miriam J. Petty, Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts Rutgers University, Newark Film genres routinely mix and evolve over time in ways that change our expectations of them, and change the…

  • Science: Environmentalist Time Magazine 1936-05-11 In Washington last week one of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists told the National Academy of Sciences about an Englishman who was raised in Italy and married a Jewess. In consequence this Englishman’s gestures gradually became half Italian, half Jewish. Anthropology is neither an old science like mathematics, astronomy and…

  • Race-mixing and science in the United States Endeavour Volume 27, Number 4 (December 2003) pages 166-170 DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2003.08.007 Paul Farber, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Oregon State University Scientific racism was widely used as a justification to oppose race-mixing in the United States. Historians have justly criticized this abuse of science, but have overlooked some…

  • Comparing biracials and monoracials: Psychological well-being and attitudes toward multiracial people The Ohio State University 2008 108 pages Publication ID: AAT 3332205 Peter J. Adams A 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…

  • Color Struck: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective University Press of America April 2010 516 pages Paper ISBN: 0-7618-5064-3 / 978-0-7618-5064-9 Electronic ISBN: 0-7618-5092-9 / 978-0-7618-5092-2 Edited by Julius O. Adekunle, Professor of History Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey Hettie V. Williams, Lecturer, African American History Department of History and Anthropology…

  • Chameleon Changes: An Exploration of Racial Identity Themes of Multiracial People Journal of Counseling Psychology Volume 52, Number 4 (October 2005) pages 507-516 DOI: 10.1037/0022-0167.52.4.507 Marie L. Miville Teachers College, Columbia University Madonna G. Constantine Teachers College, Columbia University Matthew F. Baysden Oklahoma State University Gloria So-Lloyd Oklahoma State University The current study explored essential…