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  • The Black/White Binary Paradigm of Race: The Normal Science of American Racial Thought

    The Black/White Binary Paradigm of Race: The Normal Science of American Racial Thought California Law Review Volume 85, Issue 5 (1997) pages 1213-1258 Juan F. Perea, Cone, Wagner, Nugent, Johnson, Hazouri & Roth Professor of Law University of Florida This Article is about how we are taught to think about race. In particular, I intend…

  • The Policing of Race Mixing: The Place of Biopower within the History of Racisms

    The Policing of Race Mixing: The Place of Biopower within the History of Racisms Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Volume 7, Number 2 (2010) pages 205-216 DOI: 10.1007/s11673-010-9224-8 Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies Pennsylvania State University In this paper I investigate a largely untold chapter in the history of…

  • Black Like Obama: What the Junior Illinois Senator’s Appearance on the National Scene Reveals About Race in America, and Where We Should Go from Here

    Black Like Obama: What the Junior Illinois Senator’s Appearance on the National Scene Reveals About Race in America, and Where We Should Go from Here Thurgood Marshall Law Review Volume 31 (2005) pages 79-100 Amos N. Jones, Professor of Law Campbell University, Raleigh, North Carolina Given Americans’ warm bipartisan response to Senator Barack Obama’s keynote…

  • Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity

    Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity Duke University Press 2012 400 pages 71 photographs Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5085-9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5067-5 Edited by: Maurice O. Wallace, Associate Professor of English and African & African American Studies Duke University Shawn Michelle Smith, Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies School of…

  • The arresting eye: Race and the detection of deception

    The arresting eye: Race and the detection of deception University of Southern California December 2005 282 pages Publication Number: AAT 3220115 ISBN: 9780542713217 Jinny Huh A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) With increasing rates…

  • Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America

    Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America New York University Press November 2012 272 pages 10 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9780814765463 Paper ISBN: 9780814765470 Antonio López, Assistant Professor of English George Washington University In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a…

  • Crimes of passing: The criminalization of blackness and miscegenation in United States passing narratives

    Crimes of passing: The criminalization of blackness and miscegenation in United States passing narratives University of California, Los Angeles 2005 158 pages Publication Number: AAT 3175169 ISBN: 9780542133046 Susan Elaine Bausch A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature Between approximately 1880 and 1925, large…

  • Obama and Race: History, Culture, Politics

    Obama and Race: History, Culture, Politics Routledge 2011-11-10 200 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-68678-5 Edited by Richard H. King, Professor Emeritus of American and Canadian Studies University of Nottingham In this collection, academics from both sides of the Atlantic analyze the confluence of a politician, a process, and a problem—Barack Obama, the 2008 US presidential election,…

  • Betwixt And Between: Studying Multiracial Identity

    In 1989, Reginald Daniel began teaching a university course on multiracial identity called Betwixt and Between. It remains the longest-running college course addressing the multiracial experience. For his continuing studies and research on multiraciality, Daniel received the Loving Prize.

  • Embodying Belonging: Racializing Okinawan Diaspora in Bolivia and Japan

    Embodying Belonging: Racializing Okinawan Diaspora in Bolivia and Japan University Of Hawai‘i Press May 2010 272 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8248-3344-2 Taku Suzuki, Assistant Professor of International Studies Denison University, Granville, Ohio Embodying Belonging is the first full-length study of a Okinawan diasporic community in South America and Japan. Under extraordinary conditions throughout the twentieth century (Imperial…