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  • Dr. Rainier Spencer Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Dr. Rainier Spencer Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed.  Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #131 – Dr. Rainier Spencer Wednesday, 2009-12-09  22:00Z Rainier Spencer, Director and Professor of Afro-American Studies; Professor…

  • Why Are People Different?: Multiracial Families in Picture Books and the Dialogue of Difference

    Why Are People Different?: Multiracial Families in Picture Books and the Dialogue of Difference The Lion and the Unicorn Volume 25, Number 3 September 2001 pp. 412-426 E-ISSN: 1080-6563 Print ISSN: 0147-2593 DOI: 10.1353/uni.2001.0037 Karen Sands-O’Connor The issue of race has often been contentious in children’s literature, from controversies over Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,…

  • The Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow

    The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, born Joseph Bologne, was the son of an African slave and a French plantation owner on the island of Guadeloupe. The story of his improbable rise in French society, his life as a famous fencer, celebrated violinist-composer and conductor, and later commander of a colored regiment in the French Revolution, should,…

  • Stanford profs examine mixed race in U.S. society

    Stanford profs examine mixed race in U.S. society The Dartmouth Victoria Boggiano, The Dartmouth Staff 2008-04-18 In 2000, the U.S. Census gave Americans the chance to identify themselves by more than one race for the first time. Almost seven million people — over 80 percent of whom were under 25 — checked more than one…

  • Inexacting Whiteness: Blanqueamiento as a Gender-Specific Trope in the Nineteenth Century

    Inexacting Whiteness: Blanqueamiento as a Gender-Specific Trope in the Nineteenth Century Cuban Studies Volume 36, 2005 pages 105-128 E-ISSN: 1548-2464 Print ISSN: 0361-4441 DOI: 10.1353/cub.2005.0033 Gema R. Guevara, Associate Professor, Languages & Literature and Associate Professor, Spanish Section University of Utah In Cuba, race, nation, and popular music were inextricably linked to the earliest formulations…

  • Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century

    Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century Carolina Academic Press 2009 160 pp Paper ISBN: 978-1-59460-571-0 LCCN: 2009001612 Earl Smith, Professor of Sociology and Rubin Professor and Director of Ethnic Studies Wake Forest University Angela J. Hattery, Professor of Sociology Wake Forest University Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century is a unique set of essays—both personal…

  • The Creolization Reader: Studies in Mixed Identities and Cultures

    The Creolization Reader: Studies in Mixed Identities and Cultures Routledge 2009-09-10 416 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-49854-8 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-49713-8 Edited by Robin Cohen, Professor of Development Studies and Director of the International Migration Institute University of Oxford Paola Toninato, Research Fellow in Sociology and Italian Studies University of Warwick Increasingly, ‘creolization’ is used to analyse…

  • Racial Passing

    Racial Passing Ohio State Law Journal Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law Vol. 62: 1145 (2001) Frank R. Strong Law Forum Lecture Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law Harvard Law School I. Passing: A Definition Passing is a deception that enables a person to adopt certain roles or identities from…

  • Embracing Ambiguity: Faces of the Future

    Embracing Ambiguity: Faces of the Future Cal State Fullerton College of the Arts Main Gallery 2010-01-30 through 2010-03-05 Opening Reception: 2010-01-30, 17:00-20:00, artist will be present Panel discussion 2010-02-02, 17:00-19:00, artist will be present 800 N. State College Blvd. Fullerton, CA 92831-3547 Phone (657) 278-7750 Curated by Lynn Stromick and Jillian Nakornthap Featuring Laura Kina,…

  • Beyond White Ethnicity: Developing a Sociological Understanding of Native American Identity Reclamation

    Beyond White Ethnicity: Developing a Sociological Understanding of Native American Identity Reclamation Lexington Books (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) October 2006 262 pages Cloth: 0-7391-1393-3 / 978-0-7391-1393-6 Paper: 0-7391-1394-1 / 978-0-7391-1394-3 Kathleen J. Fitzgerald, Professor of Sociology University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana Through qualitative analysis of individuals, Kathleen J. Fitzgerald studies the…