Category: Media Archive

  • Filling in the Chasm Between Black and White The Siskiyou Southern Oregon University 2006-02-27 Shannon Luders-Manuel Last week I had the pleasure of attending the lecture by James McBride, having read his memoir a few years ago when I was at my most-heightened search for identity. Without retaining much of the details of his life…

  • The Election of Barack Obama and the Politics of Interracial and Same-Sex Marriage History News Network 2009-02-23 Peggy Pascoe, Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History University of Oregon Peggy Pascoe is the author of “What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America”, (winner of 5 literary prizes). The election (and now…

  • “Being a Half-breed”: Discourses of Race and Cultural Syncreticity in the Works of Three Metis Women Writers Canadian Literature “Native, Individual, State” Number 144, Spring, 1995 pages 82-96 Jodi Lundgren In his introduction to All My Relations, Thomas King asserts that “being Native is a matter of race rather than something more transitory such as…

  • IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas Smithsonian Institution 2009 256 pages 6 5/8 x 9 1/2 inches 115 color and black-and-white illustrations ISBN: 978-1-58834-271-3 Twenty-seven passionate essays explore the complex history and contemporary lives of people with a dual heritage that is a little-known part of American culture. Authors from across the Americas share…

  • African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation University of Oklahoma Press 2007 368 pages, 6″ x 9″ Illustrations: 15 color illustrations, 4 maps Hardcover ISBN: 9780806138152 Paperback ISBN: 9780806168951 Gary Zellar, Assistant Professor of History University of Saskatchewan A narrative history of the African Creek community Among the Creeks, they were known as Estelvste—black people—and…

  • Personal passion fuels Smithsonian exhibit San Francisco State University News 2010-02-12 Denize Springer The search for identity is particularly complex for Americans of both African and Native American heritage, according to Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies Robert Keith Collins. Of Choctaw and African American descent, Collins has turned a personal passion into a career.…

  • White Parents – Black Children: How Parents Contribute to the Development of their Biracial Child’s Identity American Sociological Association Annual Meeting Hilton San Francisco San Francisco, California 2009-08-09 20 pages Cristina Ortiz University of Chicago When a biracial child has one black and one white parent, society tends to identify the child as “black” or…

  • Persistence and Change in Asian Identity among Children of Intermarried Couples Sociological Perspectives Volume 38, Number 2 (Summer, 1995) pages 175-194 Rogelio Saenz, Professor of Sociology Texas A&M University Sean-Shong Hwang, Professor of Sociology University of Alabama, Birmingham Benigno E. Aguirre, Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice University of Delaware Robert N. Anderson In recent…

  • Being between: can multiracial Americans form a cohesive anti-racist movement beyond identity politics and Tiger Woods chic? ColorLines: Race, Culture, Action 2003-06-22 Sasha Su-Ling Welland, Assistant Professor Anthropology & Women Studies University of Washington So much of being mixed race these days seems about having to explain, always answering “What are you?” for others and…

  • “Who Do You Think You’re Border Patrolling?”: Negotiating “Multiracial” Identities and “Interracial” Relationships Georgia State University 2008 348 pages Melinda Anne Mills A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences Georgia State University Research on racial border patrolling has demonstrated…