Category: Media Archive

  • In My Experience: A Multi-Racial Heritage Forum: with Michael Kransy KQED Radio San Francisco, California 2011-12-16 Dave Iverson, Host As part of our series “In My Experience,” spotlighting the personal stories of our listeners, we talk with a panel of biracial and multi-racial people about race, identity and what it’s like to grow up looking…

  • Boucicault’s misdirections: Race, transatlantic theatre and social position in The Octoroon Atlantic Studies Volume 6, Number 1 (April 2009) pages 81-95 DOI: 10.1080/14788810802696287 Sarah Meer, Lecturer of English Univeristy of Cambridge This article challenges a number of myths the Irish-American melodramatist Dion Boucicault himself created about his play The Octoroon. Boucicault claimed that London theatre…

  • The Negro Defined The Yale Law Journal Volume 20, Number 3 (January, 1911) pages 224-225 In many of the states where a considerable portion of the population is colored, statutes define the term negro and establish his status where the same is considered, because of local conditions, as essentially different from that of Caucasians. Where…

  • The Octoroon and English Opinions of Slavery American Quarterly Volume 8, Number 2 (Summer, 1956) pages 166-170 Nils Erik Enkvist Akademi Abo, Finland After his great successes, and notably that of Colleen Bawn, Dion Boucicault became something of a leading figure among English-speaking playwrights, while the critics as well as the public eagerly watched his…

  • Wealthy free women of color in Charleston, South Carolina during slavery University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2007 271 pages Publication Number: AAT 3275800 ISBN: 9780549175599 Rita Reynolds, Assistant Professor of History Wagner College, Staten Island, New York This dissertation focuses on the lives and experiences of a small group of affluent free mulatto women in antebellum…

  • Chinese Caucasian interracial parenting and ethnic identity University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1988 264 pages Publication Number: AAT 8813254 Jeffrey B. Mar This exploratory study looks at Chinese-Caucasian interracially married parents’ experience of raising their children. The goal is to characterize these parents’ stances toward their children’s ethnic identity. A semi-structured, clinical interview was developed for…

  • “Entirely Black Verse from Him Would Succeed”: Minstrel Realism and William Dean Howells Nineteenth-Century Literature Volume 59, Number 4 (March 2005) pages 494-525 DOI: 10.1525/ncl.2005.59.4.494 Gene Jarrett, Associate Professor of English Boston University In the early months of 1896, James A. Herne returned to his hotel in Toledo, Ohio, the city where he was directing…

  • The making of a middlerace: the social politics surrounding Black-White interracial marriages and Black White biracial identity Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois May 2008 253 pages Yoftahe K. Manna Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Communication Studies In an attempt to uncover the social politics…

  • An innovative interpretation of the development of Brazilian literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Originally published in 1983, “Three Sad Races” is a study of how Brazilian literature deals with the nation’s racial diversity themes and gives vent to the general disquietude concerning this.

  • Carothers McCaslin’s Progeny Tracing the Theme of Redemption Chronologically Through the Multiracial McCaslins Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects 1999 Paper 211 pages 38-50 Christine Reiss Western Kentucky University William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses (1942) is a novel that depicts the complicated family history of the McCaslins. There are primarily three branches of the family: the…