Category: Media Archive

  • The Vanishing American Negro The American Mercury Volume LXIV, Number 278 (February 1947) pages 133-139 Ralph Linton (1893-1953), Professor of Anthropolgy Yale University In the question period following any talk on minority problems, someone invariably brings up the query, “What do anthropologists consider to be the long range solution of the Negro problem?” Though I…

  • The blonde, blue-eyed black man who one goal—racial justice The News-Times Danbury, Connecticut 2010-02-24 Antoinette Bosco Barack Obama has already made history in our nation, becoming the first black candidate ever to be elected to the U.S. presidency. But, in truth, he is following a path that has long been set by black people before…

  • Ethnographic Pictorialism: Caroline Gurrey’s Hawaiian Types at the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition History of Photography Volume 36, Issue 2 (May 2012) pages 172-183 DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2012.654943 Heather Waldroup, Associate Professor of Art History Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina In 1909, a series of photographs by Honolulu portraitist Caroline Gurrey was exhibited at the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition (AYPE) in…

  • Is the American Negro Becoming Lighter? An Analysis of the Sociological and Biological Trends American Sociological Review Volume 13, Number 4 (August, 1948) pages 437-443 William M. Kephart, Professor of Sociology University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia There is a belief in some quarters that there is a biological solution to the Negro problem; that is, in…

  • The “Passing” Question Phylon (1940-1956) Volume 9, Number 4 (4th Quarter 1948) pages 336-340 Wm. M. Kephart, Professor of Sociology University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia How many Negroes are ‘passing‘ every year in the United  States?” “What percentage of the White population possesses some Negro blood?” “In time, will all the Negroes ‘pass’?” “What proportion of…

  • Modern Love: Navigating New Trenches After a Breakup The New York Times 2012-05-18 Kate McGovern Cambridge, Massachusetts Some years ago, when I was living in Britain, I received an e-mail from a college friend who had recently announced her first pregnancy. “We have become good friends with a black/white couple,” she wrote. “They have a…

  • English R1A: Keeping it Real?: Racial & Queer Passing in American Literature University of California, Berkeley Fall 2010 Rosa Marti­nez “I had a literature rather than a personality, a set of fictions about myself.” —Kafka Was the Rage by Anatole Broyard This course intends to explore the “art” of racial passing and masquerade in American…

  • Spinning on Margins: An Analysis of Passing as Communicative Phenomenon Queen: a journal of rhetoric and power Special Issue: Rehtorics of identity: Place, Race, Sex and the Person (January 2005) From the conference held from 2005-01-20 through 2005-01-22 at the University of Redlands 21 pages Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Acts of black-to-white…

  • From The Birth of a Nation to Havoc: The Evolution of Traditional Blackface to Modern Racial Passing in U.S. Cinema Pennsylvania State University August 2009 122 pages Dorian Randall A Thesis in Media Studies by Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts Race is a complicated and debatable term…

  • Rodney King juror: ‘My father was black’ Ventura County Star Camarillo, California 2012-04-28 Gretchen Wenner, Staff Reporter SQUAW VALLEY — Juror No. 8 from the Rodney King beating trial has always heard the 12-member panel described as either all white or as having no blacks.   Now, he wants the public to know that’s not…