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  • Performance Studies: Interracialism: Performing Mixed Race (H42.2090)

    Performance Studies: Interracialism: Performing Mixed Race (H42.2090) New York University Department of Social & Cultural Analysis: American Studies This course will survey the emergent field of  ‘critical mixed race studies’ with a particular emphasis on the black experience in the Americas. How have people of African descent been alternately excluded from and incorporated into discourses…

  • New Laureate Wrestles with Mixed Race

    New Laureate Wrestles with Mixed Race Better Living through Beowulf: How great literature can change your life 2012-06-11 Robin Bates, Professor of English St. Mary’s College of Maryland Monday   I see that Natasha Trethewey, who teaches creative writing at my graduate alma mater (Emory University), is America’s new poet laureate. Trethewey is mixed race…

  • President Obama’s basketball love affair has roots in Hawaii high school team

    President Obama’s basketball love affair has roots in Hawaii high school team The Washington Post 2012-06-09 David Maraniss To say that President Obama loves basketball understates the role of the sport in his life. He has been devoted to the game for 40 years now, ever since the father he did not know and never…

  • Black and white student ruling in a land of rainbows

    Black and white student ruling in a land of rainbows University World News Issue 224, 2012-06-03 Chrissie Long While there appears to be little question that Brazil’s black community has been at a disadvantage regarding degree attainment, a ruling by the country’s top court upholding affirmative action in universities has sparked debate over whether the…

  • Miscegenation and “the Dicta of Race and Class”: The Rhinelander Case and Nella Larsen’s Passing

    Miscegenation and “the Dicta of Race and Class”: The Rhinelander Case and Nella Larsen’s Passing MFS Modern Fiction Studies Volume 36, Number 4, Winter 1990 DOI: 10.1353/mfs.0.1034 pages 523-529 Mark J. Madigan, Professor / Fulbright Program Advisor in English Nazareth College, Rochester, New York The 1986 Rutgers University Press edition of Nella Larsen’s two novels,…

  • SO 3300: ‘Race’and ‘Mixed Race’

    SO 3300: ‘Race’and ‘Mixed Race’ Forham University Spring 2010 The origins of ‘race,’its historic role and social construction are examined. Ancient and modern-day ideas are explored. Contrasts between the United States and Latin American concepts of ‘race’ and ‘mixed race’ are analyzed. Future implications are discussed.

  • The Future of the ‘Tan Generation’

    Browner America: Marcia Alesan Dawkins says an increase in nonwhite births doesn’t mean more social justice.

  • Librarian of Congress Appoints Natasha Trethewey Poet Laureate

    Librarian of Congress Appoints Natasha Trethewey Poet Laureate Library of Congress News from the Library of Congress 2012-06-07 Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today announced the appointment of Natasha Trethewey as the Library’s Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2012-2013. Trethewey, the 19th Poet Laureate, will take up her duties in the fall, opening…

  • Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race

    Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race Stanford University Press April 2012 268 pages 6 tables, 1 figure, 20 photographs Cloth ISBN: 9780804777957 Paper ISBN: 9780804777964 E-book ISBN: 9780804782531 Wendy D. Roth, Associate Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia, Canada In this groundbreaking study of Puerto Rican and Dominican migration to the United…

  • The Origin of the Van Guilders

    The Origin of the Van Guilders History’s Faces 2012-05-25 Debra Winchell Recently the Associated Press published an article by Travis Loller saying that DNA study seeks the origin of Appalachia’s Melungeons. In a excerpt Mr. Loller wrote: In recent years, it has become a catchall term for people of mixed-race ancestry and has been applied…