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  • A Color Problem in England

    A Color Problem in England The Journal of the American Medical Association Volume 95, Number 3 (1930-07-19) Foreign Letters: London Letter pages 210-211 DOI: 10.1001/jama.1930.02720030040020 From Our Regular Correspondent (1930-06-21) There is no color line in England such as exists in America. This does not mean that the English do not appreciate differences of race.…

  • AmSt 201 W: The American Experience: Institutions and Movements: Mixed Race in America

    AmSt 201 W: The American Experience: Institutions and Movements: Mixed Race in America University of Hawaii Spring 2010 Students will gain familiarity with American Mixed Race theory, and politics as well as explore first hand literary accounts by mixed race individuals. Analysis of social and political narratives about Mixed Race people will be facilitated by…

  • The Hybridity Revolution

    The Hybridity Revolution Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review 2012-05-31 Michelle La Flamme Adebe DeRango-Adem (Editor) and Andrea Thompson (Editor), Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out. Societies that pride themselves on an imagined monoracial norm have rare glimpses into the multi-racial experience. The contemporary literary phenomenon some refer to as the “boom…

  • IRISH-GA 1085: Black Irish Writing

    IRISH-GA 1085: Black Irish Writing Gluckman Ireland House New York University Spring 2010 This course examines the textual force-fields of similarity and difference in the writing of racial and ethnic identities in the Atlantic World.  It begins by considering works of Irish writers who engaged with Atlantic slavery and the sympathetic and testamentary discourses within…

  • ASTD 393-03 – Mixed Race America

    ASTD 393-03 – Mixed Race America Saint Louis University Fall 2012 Heidi Ardizzone, Assistant Professor of American Studies  Despite popular images of American as a “melting” both of races and ethnicities, our institutions, values, and practices have often tried to create or maintain spatial and social distance between groups defined as racially different. This course…

  • “Out of an obscure place”: Japanese War Brides and Cultural Pluralism in the 1950s

    “Out of an obscure place”: Japanese War Brides and Cultural Pluralism in the 1950s differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies Volume 10, Number 3 (1998) pages 47-81 Caroline Chung Simpson, Associate Professor of English University of Washington In the spring of 1954, the American philosopher Horace Kallen was invited to deliver a series of…

  • AFAM 349a/AMST 326a/WGSS 388a: Interraciality and Hybridity

    AFAM 349a/AMST 326a/WGSS 388a: Interraciality and Hybridity Yale University Fall 2011 Naomi Pabst, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Studies Yale University Examination of mixed-race matters in both literary and critical writings, primarily within the black/white schema.  Historical and current questions of black and interracial identity; the contemporary “mixed race movement” and the…

  • White Yet Non-White: Miscegenation in Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard (2007)

    White Yet Non-White: Miscegenation in Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard (2007) American Studies Today Online Volume 19, (2012) 2012-05-30 ISSN: 2044-804X Sofia Politidou Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece This article examines the changes in the concept of miscegenation, from the slavery years to the 1960s and the 2000s, as recorded in Natasha Trethewey’s Pulitzer Prize poetry collection…

  • The Myth of Native American Blood

    The Myth of Native American Blood The Hyphenated Life The Boston Globe 2012-06-01 Francie Latour The African-American grandmother of a friend of mine once summed up the laws that govern black identity in this country. “If you ever want to know if someone’s black or not,” she would say, “go ask their white neighbor.” That…

  • Ireland and African-America

    Ireland and African-America Clinton Institute for American Studies University College Dublin, Ireland 2012-03-09 through 2012-03-11 Report On the 9 – 10 March 2012, The Clinton Institute for American Studies held a two day international conference entitled Ireland and African-America.  Unfortunately, the main keynote speaker Ishmael Reed had to withdraw from the conference on the 6…