Category: Media Archive

  • Figuring Abjection: The Slave Mother in the Early Creole Novel French Studies Volume 67, Issue 1, January 2013 pages 61-75 DOI: 10.1093/fs/kns232 Maeve McCusker School of Modern Languages Queen’s University Belfast While twentieth-century Caribbean literature in French has generated a substantial body of criticism, earlier writings have largely been neglected. This article begins by contextualizing…

  • Regular screening mammography before the diagnosis of breast cancer reduces black:white breast cancer differences and modifies negative biological prognostic factors Breast Cancer Research and Treatment Volume 135, Number 2 (2012) pages 549-553 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-012-2193-3 Paula Grabler Feinberg College of Medicine Northwestern University Danielle Dupuy Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Taskforce, Chicago, Illinois Jennifer Rai University of…

  • Michele Elam: The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics and Aesthetics in the New Millennium [Johnson Review] New Books in African American Studies: Discussions with Scholars of African Americans about Their New Books 2012-10-31 Sherry Johnson, Assistant Professor of English Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan “What are you?” The question can often comes out…

  • Gender and the Neighborhood Location of Mixed-Race Couples Demography DOI: 10.1007/s13524-012-0158-0 Published Online: 2012-10-17 Richard Wright, Professor of Geography Dartmouth College Steven R. Holloway, Professor of Geography University of Georgia Mark Ellis, Professor of Geography University of Washington Gender asymmetry in mixed-race heterosexual partnerships and marriages is common. For instance, black men marry or partner…

  • “Tense and Tender Ties”: a review of Janny Scott’s A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother (2011) Transition Number 108 (2012) pages 129-140 Kimberly DaCosta, Associate Professor of Sociology; Associate Dean of Students New York University, Gallatin Psychologically conflicted, confused, traitorous, tragic, and deracinated: the public vocabulary used to describe multiracial people…

  • Learning to be different: A white mother of biracial children experiences racism University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) December 2004 194 pages Publication Number: AAT 3154007 ISBN: 9780496146376 Jennifer Ann Greer Johnson A Dissertation Submitted to the Education Faculty of the University of St. Thomas in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree Doctor of…

  • Race in a Bottle Scientific American Volume 297 (January 1, 2007) pages 40-45 Jonathan D. Kahn, Professor of Law Hamline University, Saint Paul, Minnesota Drugmakers are eager to develop medicines targeted at ethnic groups, but so far they have made poor choices based on unsound science. This article focuses on the drug, BiDil – a drug…

  • Is Elizabeth Warren an Indian? The Aporetic 2012-09-27 Mike O’Malley The ques­tion posed above is extremely hard to answer. She doesn’t “look like an indian.” But what do Indians look like? Just to recap: Elizabeth Warren is run­ning for the Sen­ate in Massachusetts. She’s been widely mocked for claiming herself as “native Ameri­can” at var­i­ous…

  • Obama struggles to balance African Americans’ hopes with country’s as a whole The Washington Post 2012-10-28 Peter Wallsten Barack Obama stood at the lectern, trying to figure out what to say — or at least how to say it. He started speaking, then stopped, then started again, each time searching for the right tone, the…

  • “Incestuous Sheets” and “Adulterate Beasts”: Incest and Miscegenation in Early Modern Drama University of Michigan 2011 199 pages Kentston D. Bauman A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (English Language and Literature) This dissertation explores the centrality of incest and miscegenation in the early modern cultural…