Category: Media Archive

  • Equivocal subjects: The representation of mixed-race identity in Italian film University of California, Irvine 2007 226 pages AAT 3296258 ISBN: 9780549410775 Shelleen Maisha Greene, Assistant Professor of Conceptual Studies University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee My dissertation seeks to establish a critical framework for the analysis of mixed-race subjects in Italian film. Within the Italian context, mixed-race…

  • The author explores how Africans in America internalized the negative images created of them by the European world, and how internalized racism has worked to fracture African American unity and thereby dilute inchoate efforts toward liberation.

  • The Mulatto Cyborg: Imagining a Multiracial Future Cinema Journal Volume 44, Number 2 (Winter, 2005) pages 34-49 Leilani Nishime, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington Applying the literature of passing to cyborg cinema makes visible the politics of cyborg representations and illuminates contemporary conceptions of mixed-race subjectivity and interpolations of mixed-race bodies. The passing…

  • Making sense of race and racial classification Race and Society Volume 4, Issue 2, (2001) Pages 235-247 DOI: 10.1016/S1090-9524(03)00012-3 Angela D. James, Associate Professor of African American Studies Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles As social scientists, race scholars, and demographers, how do we begin to make sense of recent changes in the Census Bureau’s system…

  • Africans in China: Sweet and Sour in Guangzhou The Africa Report 2010-02-01 Namvula Rennie Deterred by immigration controls in the West, African families and traders are moving to major Chinese cities, adding a new dimension to China-Africa relations. It’s raining again in Guangzhou. The downpours are sudden and violent, but do little to cool the…

  • Psychological Adjustment, Behavior and Health Problems in Multiracial Young Adults University of Maryland, College Park 2006 236 pages Warren L. Kelley Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2006 This study: (1) examined…

  • Challenges and Resilience in the Lives of Multiracial Adults: The Development and Validation of a Measure Nazish M. Salahuddin University of Maryland, College Park 2008 141 pages Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of…

  • 100% Multiracial UrbanFaith.com 2010-06-11 Kyle Waalen The latest Census estimates show that multiracial people are the fastest growing demographic group in the United States. Yet many still struggle with the question of how many boxes to check. Two Christian women share about the tension and joy of being young and multiracial in America. Kristy McDonald…

  • The Impact of the Media on Biracial Identity Formation University of North Texas December 2007 93 pages OCLC: 227035319 |  ARK: ark:/67531/metadc5185 Alicia Edison Thesis Prepared for the Degree of Master of Science Biracial individuals undergo a developmental process that is different than monoracial individuals. Not only do they have to develop a strong and…

  • Gender, Work and Fears of a ‘Hybrid Race’ in 1920s New Zealand Gender & History Volume 19, Issue 3 (November 2007) pages 501–518 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2007.00495.x Barbara Brookes, Professor of History Otago University, New Zealand The 1929 New Zealand Committee of Inquiry into the Employment of Māori on Market Gardens affords insight into the ways in…