Category: Media Archive

  • A Question of Blood, Race, and Politics Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Volume 61, Number 4 (2006) pages 456-491 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrl003 Michael G. Kenny, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia This article explores the political and intellectual context of a controversy arising from a proposal made…

  • Two or Three Spectacular Mulatas and the Queer Pleasures of Overidentification Camera Obscura Volume 23, Number 1 67 (2008) pages 113-143 DOI: 10.1215/02705346-2007-026 Hiram Perez, Assistant professor of English Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Building on feminist and queer scholarship on the relationship of film spectatorship to subjectivity, this essay conjectures subaltern spectatorships of the…

  • Mixed-ethnic girls and boys as similarly powerless and powerful: embodiment of attractiveness and grotesqueness Discourse Studies Volume 11, Number 3 (June 2009) pages 329-352 DOI: 10.1177/1461445609102447 Laurel D. Kamada Tohoku University, Japan An ongoing study examining the discursive negotiation of ethnic and gendered embodied identities of adolescent girls in Japan with Japanese and `white’ mixed-parentage…

  • Race representation in this year’s Common Book University of Washington News Laboratory Department of Communication December 2009 Kaetlyn Cordingley UW News Lab Each year, First Year Programs chooses a book as a means to bind the incoming freshman class together. This year’s book was Barack Obama’s “Dreams from My Father.” Coincidentally, on the same evening…

  • With a roster of acclaimed fiction writers, Mixed shatters expectations of what it means to be multiracial.

  • Reimagining The ‘Tragic Mulatto’ [Interview with Author Heidi W. Durrow] All Things Considered National Public Radio 2010-03-02 Michele Norris, Host All Things Considered Like so many children of mixed marriages, the author Heidi Durrow has often felt like she’s had to straddle two worlds. She is the daughter of a black serviceman and a white Danish…

  • CU professor helps author come alive: New [Ralph] Ellison book on sale CU Independent University of Colorado 2010-02-07 Kaely Moore Adam Bradley, a CU associate professor of English, and John Callahan, a professor of humanities at Lewis and Clark College, have come together after author Ralph Ellison’s death to produce unpublished work. Ellison’s novel “Invisible…

  • Deterritorialised Blackness: (Re)making coloured identities in South Africa postamble Volume 2, Number 1 2006 Janette Yarwood, Doctoral Candidate Department of Anthropology City University of New York “When I was a kid in the early eighties, this music [hip-hop] was the first I’d heard that I could relate to. You know, ‘Fuck da Police’, and all…

  • Blood-Lines That Waver South: Hybridity, the “South,” and American Bodies Southern Quarterly Volume 41, Number 1 (Fall 2003) pages 39-52 Tace Hedrick, Associate Professor of English University of Florida In the paper I investigate a certain kind of imaginative response, especially on the part of mixed-race artists, to the prevalence of racialized discourses of modernity…

  • Sociology Noir: Studies at the University of Chicago in Loneliness, Marginality and Deviance, 1915–1935 McFarland Publishers 2007 196 pages 7 photos, bibliography, index softcover ISBN: 978-0-7864-2990-5 Roger A. Salerno, Professor of Sociology Pace University, New York Between 1915 and 1935 the University of Chicago was the center for the production of innovative sociological research that…