Category: Media Archive

  • Black-White Biracial Children’s Social Development from Kindergarten to Fifth Grade: Links with Racial Identification, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status Social Development Volume 23, Issue 1 (February 2014) pages 157–177 DOI: 10.1111/sode.12037 Annamaria Csizmadia, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University of Connecticut, Stamford Jean M. Ispa, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University…

  • White or Black? Conservatives, Liberals See Faces Differently Pacific Standard Santa Barbara, California 2013-06-05 Tom Jacobs, Staff Writer New research finds people on the political right are quicker to classify a racially ambiguous face as black. Did you notice that mixed-race gentleman who passed you on the sidewalk yesterday? During the split second as he…

  • Representing Mixed Race: Beyond “What are you?” Talking Race: A Digital Dialog 2013-05-28 Laura Kina, Vincent DePaul Associate Professor of Art, Media and Design DePaul University My 2011-12 oil paintings Issei, Nisei, Sansei, Yonsei, and Gosei are on view in “Under My Skin: Artists Explore Race in the 21st Century” at the Wing Luke Museum…

  • Half-Caste as Seen Through the Eyes of James Southard Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-06-05, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host James Southard has always been drawn to the creation of authentic stories that are visually and emotionally compelling. His love of music and photography eventually led him to the video business as…

  • Louisiana Repeals Black Blood Law The New York Times 1983-07-06 Frances Frank Marcus, Special to the New York Times NEW ORLEANS, July 5—  Gov. David C. Treen today signed legislation repealing a Louisiana statute that established a mathematical formula to determine if a person was black. The law establishing the formula, passed by state legislators…

  • What Makes you Black? Ebony Magazine Volume 38, Number 3 (January 1983) pages 115-118 Vague definition of race is the basis for court battles Imagine going to get a passport so you and your spouse can take a vacation in South America. Its all a formality, you reason; people just want to make sure you’re…

  • Antidiscrimination Law and the Multiracial Experience: A Reply to Nancy Leong Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal Volume 10, Summer 2013 pages 191-218 Tina F. Botts, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Pre-law Advisor University of North Carolina at Charlotte Nancy Leong’s thesis, in “Judicial Erasure of Mixed-Race Discrimination,” is that antidiscrimination law should make a switch…

  • Mixed Breeds Are Not Negroes and May Mingle With Whites The Weekly Messenger St. Martinville, Louisiana 1910-04-30 page 3, column 2 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers The Daily Picayune The Supreme Court of Louisiana by a vote of three to two, Justices Nicholls and Land dissenting, has decided that the state law prohibiting concubinage…

  • Ethnic minorities: defining ethnicity and race The Scottish Public Health Observatory Ethnic Minorities Last Updated: 2012-03-06 Ethnicity Ethnicity has been defined as: “the social group a person belongs to, and either identifies with or is identified with by others, as a result of a mix of cultural and other factors including language, diet, religion, ancestry…

  • My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune: A Memoir of the Civil War Era LSU Press April 2001 (Originally published in 1872) 184 pages 5.50 x 9.00 inches 3 halftones ISBN10: 0807126896, ISBN13: 9780807126899 Jean-Charles Houzeau (1820-1888) Edited by David C. Rankin Translated by Gerard F. Denault When Belgian scientist Jean-Charles Houzeau arrived in New…