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  • From Barefoot Madonna to Maggie the Ripper

    From Barefoot Madonna to Maggie the Ripper Kendall Blog Kendall College of Art and Design Ferris State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan 2011-11-07 Pamela Patton, Editor Kendall Portfolio Margaret Garner or The Modern Medea (1867) I always find lectures by visiting art historians fascinating. Looking at works of art in historical context, examining the details, and hearing…

  • Racial Realities: Social Constructs and the Stuff of Which They Are Made

    Racial Realities: Social Constructs and the Stuff of Which They Are Made Global Dialogue Volume 12, Number 2 (Summer/Autumn 2010)—Race and Racisms Eric C. Thompson, Associate Professor of Sociology National University of Singapore How can we deny the reality of race? It is a truth so many hold to be self-evident. Travel around the world,…

  • Imagining Obama: Reading Overtly and Inferentially Racist Images of our 44th President, 2007–2008

    Imagining Obama: Reading Overtly and Inferentially Racist Images of our 44th President, 2007–2008 Communication Studies Volume 62, Issue 4, 2011 Special Issue:“Race Matters” in the Obama Era pages 389-405 DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2011.588074 Ralina L. Joseph, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington In this article I analyze eight Internet images of President Barack Obama from the…

  • Multiracialism on The Real World and the Reconfiguration of Politics in MTV’s Brand During the 2000s

    Multiracialism on The Real World and the Reconfiguration of Politics in MTV’s Brand During the 2000s Popular Communication Volume 8, Issue 2, 2010 pages 132-146 DOI: 10.1080/15405701003676105 Jon Kraszewski, Assistant Professor of Communication Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersery The Real World’s focus on multiracial identity is part of the MTV’s efforts to rebrand…

  • Doctor’s quest to engineer a “master race” in the early 1900s still hurting Virginia’s Indian tribes

    Doctor’s quest to engineer a “master race” in the early 1900s still hurting Virginia’s Indian tribes WTVR-CBS 6 TV Richmond, Virginia 2011-07-12 Mark Holmberg, Staff reporter RICHMOND— Richmond’s famous Hollywood Cemetery serves as the final resting place of presidents, statesmen and generals. Few have had the impact of Dr. Walter Plecker. His stormy legacy continues…

  • Multiracial Identity Development

    Multiracial Identity Development Arlington Public Schools Clarendon Education Center 2801 Clarendon Boulevard, Suite 308 Arlington, Virginia 2011-11-30, 10:00-12:00 EST (Local Time) Have you ever wondered about how children from multiracial backgrounds develop their racial identity?  Please join us in welcoming Dr. Ricia Weiner, Ms. Eleanor Lewis, and Ms. Veronica Sanjines, School Psychologists, who will share…

  • Not as simple as black or white

    Not as simple as black or white The Voice 2011-11-21 Elizabeth Pears How mixed-race Brits are tackling issues surrounding dual heritage LAST MONTH, the UK’s fastest growing ethnic minority, as part of the BBC’s Mixed Britannia series, reignited the debate of what it means to be ‘mixed-race’. Demographers have predicted that Britain’s mixed-race population will…

  • Because of Intersex: Intersexuality, Title VII, and the Reality of Discrimination “Because of… [Perceived] Sex”

    Because of Intersex: Intersexuality, Title VII, and the Reality of Discrimination “Because of… [Perceived] Sex” New York University Law Review of Law & Social Change Volume 34, Issue 1 (2010) pages 55-121 Ilana Gelfman, Skadden Fellow Greater Boston Legal Services The federal doctrine of sex discrimination in employment depends on the underlying yet unstated assumption…

  • Ethnicities: Plays from the New West

    Ethnicities: Plays from the New West NeWest Press Spring 1999 208 pages paperback ISBN 13: 978-1-896300-03-0 Edited by: Anne Nothof, Professor Emeritus of English Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada Edited by Anne Nothof, the three plays included this anthology all deal with intercultural issues in Canada with humour, wit and at times, heartbreak. They range from…

  • Faking It: Poetics & Hybridity: Critical Writing 1984-1999

    Faking It: Poetics & Hybridity: Critical Writing 1984-1999 NeWest Press Spring 2000 288 pages Paperback ISBN 13: 978-1-896300-07-8 Fred Wah According to Fred Wah, the act of thinking critically is one of exploration and discovery. In Faking It, Wah demonstrates how writing poetry is writing critically. This scrapbook of Wah’s work—collected from fifteen years of…