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  • “What is In My Blood?”: Contemporary Black Scottishness and the Work of Jackie Kay [Book Chapter]

    “What is In My Blood?”: Contemporary Black Scottishness and the Work of Jackie Kay [Book Chapter] Literature and Racial Ambiguity Rodopi B.V. 2002-09-15 328 pages ISBN-10: 9042014180 ISBN-13: 978-9042014183 pp. 1-25(25) edited by Teresa Hubal and Neil Brooks Peter Clandfield, Assistant Professor of English Studies Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario, Canada The work of the…

  • AAS 434-Constructions of Racial Ambiguity

    AAS 434-Constructions of Racial Ambiguity University of Nevada, Las Vegas Spring 2010 Rainier Spencer, Professor and Director, Afro-American Studies Program Interdisciplinary study of miscegenation, mulattos, and passing in the United States. Focuses on the Afro-American context, using historical, literary, and cinematic sources in order to grapple with and gain an understanding of the complexities of…

  • Diversity on a Personal Level: A First Look at Multiple Race Population

    Diversity on a Personal Level: A First Look at Multiple Race Population Indiana Business Review Summer 2001 pages 6-7 John Besl, Research Demographer Indiana Business Research Center, Kelley School of Business Indiana University For many decades, census data have provided a look at racial diversity in our nation’s communities. But Census 2000 offers a truly…

  • New England Identities: Black New England Conference

    New England Identities: Black New England Conference University of New Hampshire 2009-06-11 thorugh 2009-06-13 New England: Beyond Black & White Moving beyond rigid racial identities, this year’s conference will explore the contemporary as well as historic interactions between Black and Indigenous communities, the presence of “passing” mixed race individuals, and the more recent immigrant experience,…

  • Race on Trial: Passing and the Van Houten Case in Boston

    Race on Trial: Passing and the Van Houten Case in Boston Paper presented at the annual meeting of the 94th Annual Convention Association for the Study of African American Life and History Hilton Cincinnati, Netherland Plaza Cincinnati, Ohio 2009-09-30 Zebulon V. Miletsky, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University of New York…

  • City of Amalgamation: Race, Marriage, Class and Color in Boston, 1890-1930

    City of Amalgamation: Race, Marriage, Class and Color in Boston, 1890-1930 University of Massachusetts, Amherst September 2008 223 pages Paper AAI3337029 Zebulon V. Miletsky, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University of New York Submitted to the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the Graduate School of the University of…

  • Mixed bodies, separate races: The trope of the “(tragic) mulatto” in twentieth-century African literature

    Mixed bodies, separate races: The trope of the “(tragic) mulatto” in twentieth-century African literature McMaster University (Canada) 2007 251 pages AAT NR57539 Diana Adesola Mafe, Assistant Professor of English Denison University This dissertation proposes that the American literary trope of the “tragic mulatto” has both roots and resonances in sub-Saharan Africa. The concept of the…

  • Hybridity and Whiteness in Claudine C. O’Hearn’s Half and Half: Writings on Growing up Biracial and Bicultural

    Hybridity and Whiteness in Claudine C. O’Hearn’s Half and Half: Writings on Growing up Biracial and Bicultural CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture Volume 7, Issue 3 (September 2005) 9 pages Heather Latimer Simon Fraser University In her paper, “Hybridity and Whiteness” in Claudine C. O’Hearn’s Half and Half: Writings on Growing up Biracial and Bicultural,…

  • Review of Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor’s Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness (University of North Carolina Press, 2009)

    Review of Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor’s Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) History News Network December 2009 Renee Romano, Associate Professor of History Oberlin College “Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness” (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) On a fall…

  • Thinking outside the box: Racial self-identification choice among mixed heritage adolescents

    Thinking outside the box: Racial self-identification choice among mixed heritage adolescents University of Pennsylvania 2009 234 pages ISBN: 9781109236088 Michele Munoz-Miller A Dissertation in Education Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The purpose of this study was to explore…