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  • Gabriela Meets Olodum: Paradoxes of Hybridity, Racial Identity, and Black Consciousness in Contemporary Brazil

    Gabriela Meets Olodum: Paradoxes of Hybridity, Racial Identity, and Black Consciousness in Contemporary Brazil Research in African Literatures Volume 38, Number 1 (Spring 2007) pages 181-193 E-ISSN: 1527-2044 Print ISSN: 0034-5210 DOI: 10.1353/ral.2007.0007 Russell G. Hamilton, Emeritus Professor of Portuguese, Brazilian and Lusophone African Literatures Vanderbilt University With respect to the first part of this…

  • The Importance of Race and Ethnic Background in Biomedical Research and Clinical Practice

    The Importance of Race and Ethnic Background in Biomedical Research and Clinical Practice New England Journal of Medicine 2003-03-20 Volume 348, Number 12 pages 1170-1175 Esteban González Burchard, M.D. Elad Ziv, M.D. Natasha Coyle, Ph.D. Scarlett Lin Gomez, Ph.D. Hua Tang, Ph.D. Andrew J. Karter, Ph.D. Joanna L. Mountain, Ph.D. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D. Dean…

  • Hybridity in the Third Space: Rethinking Bi-cultural Politics in Aotearoa/New Zealand

    Hybridity in the Third Space: Rethinking Bi-cultural Politics in Aotearoa/New Zealand Paper Presented to Te Oru Rangahau Maori Research and Development Conference 1998-07-07 through 1998-07-09 Massey University 7 pages Paul Meredith (Ngati Kaputuhi/Pakeha), Research Fellow Te Matahauariki Institute University of Waikato, New Zealand This brief paper joins a growing call for a reconceptualisation of bicultural…

  • Claiming the (n)either/(n)or of ‘third space’: (re)presenting hybrid identity and the embodiment of mixed race

    Claiming the (n)either/(n)or of ‘third space’: (re)presenting hybrid identity and the embodiment of mixed race Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 25, Issue 1 (April 2004) pages 75 – 85 DOI: 10.1080/07256860410001687036 Torika Bolatagici, Associate Lecturer School of Communication & Creative Arts Deakin University, Melbourne, Austrailia As a multiracial artist, I am interested in how people…

  • The more things change, the more they stay the same

    The more things change, the more they stay the same Thinking Twice: RACE The Stanford Review 2009-01-29 C. Matthew Snipp, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity Stanford University Last week, we inaugurated our first African American president, and coincidentally our first mixed race president, and our…

  • Why Obama is Black Again

    Why Obama is Black Again Thinking Twice: RACE The Stanford Review 2009-01-29 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Stanford University Barack Obama’s inauguration was for so many an awe-inspiring, historic and transnational event: It was full of grand pageantry and a good-humored…

  • Identity in Education: Future of Minority Studies

    Identity in Education: Future of Minority Studies Palgrave Macmillan May 2009 296 pages ISBN: 978-0-230-60917-4, ISBN10: 0-230-60917-1 6 1/8 x 9-1/4 inches, 296 pages,  Edited by Susan Sánchez-Casal, Director Tufts University / Skidmore College, Madrid Amie A. Macdonald, Associate Professor of Philosophy John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York This edited…

  • Questions for Maya Soetoro-Ng: All in the Family

    Questions for Maya Soetoro-Ng: All in the Family The New York Times 2008-01-20 Deborah Solomon Q: Let’s talk about the Democratic presidential caucuses taking place on Feb. 19, in Hawaii, where Barack Obama was born. Will you be campaigning for your brother? Yes, of course. I have taken time off from my various teaching jobs…

  • Obama’s Mixology

    For different reasons, this same identity question has also had some traction with people of color, many of whom worry that Obama will usher in what Danzy Senna calls the “mulatto millennium,” especially if it implies that, as some of Obama’s supporters chanted earlier this year, “race doesn’t matter.”…

  • ENGLISH 261E: Mixed Race Literature in the U.S. and South Africa (seminar)

    ENGLISH 261E: Mixed Race Literature in the U.S. and South Africa (seminar) Stanford University Department of English Winter Quarter, 2010-2011 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Grant Parker, Associate Professor of Classics Stanford Univeristy As scholar Werner Sollors recently suggested, novels, poems,…