Category: Media Archive

  • ‘Beautiful Hybrids’: Caroline Gurrey’s Photographs of Hawai‘i’s Mixed-race Children History of Photography Volume 36, Issue 2 (May 2012) pages 184-198 DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2012.654947 Anne Maxwell, Associate Professor of English University of Melbourne, Australia In the early years of the twentieth century the Hawaiian-based American photographer Caroline Gurrey produced a much praised set of the photographs of…

  • Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel University of Illinois Press 2001 208 pages 6 x 9 in. Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07248-2 M. Giulia Fabi, Associate professor of American literature University of Ferrara, Italy Revealing the role of light-skinned black characters passing for white in African American literature A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2003…

  • Contemporary US multiple heritage couples, individuals, and families: Issues, concerns, and counseling implications Counselling Psychology Quarterly Volume 25, Issue 2, (June 2012) Special Issue: Race, Culture, and Mental Health: Metissage, Mestizaje, Mixed “Race”, and Beyond pages 99-112 DOI: 10.1080/09515070.2012.674682 Mark Kenney, Adjunct Professor Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania Multicultural Education and Consulting, Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania Kelley…

  • The Origins of Mixed Race Populations New African January 2005 Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts While rape played a huge part in the origins of Africa and the Diaspora’s mixed race populations, it is wrong to attribute it all to rape, argues Carina Ray. In the…

  • Rewriting a slave’s journey Trinidad and Tobago Newsday 2012-04-29 Corey Connelly In his latest publication, Caribbean History from Pre-Colonial Origins to the Present, Dr Tony Martin recaps the many social, economic and political phenomena that have shaped world history over the centuries. However, the renowned historian tackles the topics in an unapologetically fresh and detailed…

  • Children of the banished dragon The Daily Post Liverpool, England 2006-01-23 Lew Baxter Lew Baxter reports on a shameful episode after World War II when Chinese sailors who had risked their lives for Britain were deported back to China, many leaving behind distraught British wives and children. Even 60 years later, tears and trauma trail…

  • Eurasians: The First British Born Chinese? DimSum: The British Chinese community website 2007-06-30 Yvonne Foley I am a Eurasian.  I am the daughter of an English mother and a Shanghai father.  In traditional Chinese culture, having a Chinese father, I am regarded as being Chinese. I am part of a community that has been around…

  • Jean Toomer, Mulatto and Modernist: the Fused Race and Fused Form of Cane Oklahoma State University May 1997 76 pages Rhonda Lea McClellan Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate College of the Oklahoma State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS Preface In the fall of 1993,…

  • Is the Tanning of America Only Skin Deep? The Huffington Post 2012-05-17 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University It’s official: The United States is officially “tan.” According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s first population estimate by age, race, ethnicity, and sex since the 2010 Census, “50.4 percent of our nation’s population younger than age…

  • To “Flash White Light from Ebony”: The Problem of Modernism in Jean Toomer’s Cane Twentieth Century Literature Volume 46, Number 1 (Spring 2000) pages 1-19 Catherine Gunther Kodat, Professor of English and American Studies Hamilton College, Clinton, New York The mirror stage is a drama whose internal thrust is precipitated from insufficiency to anticipation–and which…