Category: Media Archive

  • Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial by Ralina L. Joseph (review) [Ardizzone] African American Review Volume 46, Number 4, Winter 2013 pages 787-790 DOI: 10.1353/afa.2013.0105 Heidi Ardizzone, Assistant Professor of American Studies Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri Joseph, Ralina L., Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the…

  • ‘I Hope My Son Stays White’ Ebony News & Views 2014-09-02 Calvin Hennick A White father of a biracial son admits his fears for what happens when his child gets older and can no longer ‘pass‘ I am a white man, and part of the privilege that comes along with that fact is this: I…

  • M.I.X.E.D: Multidisciplinary.Intersectional.Xchanging.Empowering.Dialogues Art Show Call for Entries 2014-08-29 M.I.X.E.D. is a 100% volunteer run event & art show created in order to make space for progressive discussion around mixed-race identity and our many other intersecting identities. To learn more about “intersectionality”, please visit: http://mixed-me.ca/intersectionality This year’s event will take place on Saturday May 2nd, 2015.…

  • Why Latinos won’t become white Al Jazeera America 2014-10-22 Gabriel Arana Assuming Latinos will join the white majority ignores the stark divisions in a racially diverse group In the lead-up to the midterms, President Barack Obama has been parroting the conventional wisdom about the GOP’s future: Republicans are doomed if they keep up their opposition…

  • Take the current Irish dance “it” girl, Julia O’Rourke. She was born in New York, and has Filipino and Irish ancestry. At age 15, she is a two-time world champion and star of the Irish dance documentary “Jig.” That film follows dancers from around the world who are training for and traveling to the 2010…

  • Winthrop Jordan, one of the most honored of US historians, wrote about racial mixing a generation before there was a field of mixed race studies. At the time of his death, he left an unfinished manuscript: “Historical Origins of the One-Drop Racial Rule in the United States.” For this inaugural issue of the JCMRS, Jordan’s…

  • “I am on the Coloured Side”: The Roles of the White Suitor and the Black Mother in the Tragic Mulatta Narrative University of Massachusetts at Amherst 2013 Shannon D. Luders Manuel What I propose to add to the already established dialogue regarding the tragic mulatta narrative is an investigation into the commonalities of the genre’s endings,…

  • Black Is, Black Ain’t: Biracials, Middle-Class Blacks, and the Social Construction of Blackness Sociological Spectrum Volume 30,  Issue 6, 2010 pages 639-670 DOI: 10.1080/02732173.2010.510057 Cherise A. Harris, Associate Professor of Sociology Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut Nikki Khanna, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Vermont Several scholars claim that group cohesion among black Americans is…

  • “What Are You?” Multiracial Identity and the Persistence of Racism in a “Post-Racial” Society University of Virginia 2014 Hephzibah Virginia Strmic-Pawl In 2000, and for the first time, the U.S. Census allowed individuals to “mark one or more” races, and now the U.S. Census projects that those who choose two or more races will triple…

  • The Black, British Atlantic: Blackness in Victorian Literature University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2014 Donghee Om My dissertation is about transnational aspects of the Victorian era from the vantage point of what Paul Gilroy described more than two decades ago as the “black Atlantic.” Looking at various ways in which the black Atlantic was at…