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Month: November 2009

  • Anomaly: A New Documentary Film About Mixed Race Identity

    Anomaly: A New Documentary Film About Mixed Race Identity African Diaspora Film Festival Tuesday, 2009-12-01 at 17:50 EST (Local Time) – Anthology Film Archives, 2nd St. and 2nd Ave., New York, New York Wednesday, 2009-12-09 at 19:30 EST (Local Time) – Cowin Center, Columbia University Teachers College, 525 W. 120th St., New York, New York…

  • Who Counts?: Science, Demography and the Social “‘There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama’: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism”

    Who Counts?: Science, Demography and the Social “‘There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama’: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism” Lecture 2009-11-17 21:00Z Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St. Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African-American Studies Harvard University For the first time in American history,…

  • Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century

    Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century Carolina Academic Press 2009 160 pp Paper ISBN: 978-1-59460-571-0 LCCN: 2009001612 Earl Smith, Professor of Sociology and Rubin Professor and Director of Ethnic Studies Wake Forest University Angela J. Hattery, Professor of Sociology Wake Forest University Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century is a unique set of essays—both personal…

  • The Creolization Reader: Studies in Mixed Identities and Cultures

    The Creolization Reader: Studies in Mixed Identities and Cultures Routledge 2009-09-10 416 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-49854-8 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-49713-8 Edited by Robin Cohen, Professor of Development Studies and Director of the International Migration Institute University of Oxford Paola Toninato, Research Fellow in Sociology and Italian Studies University of Warwick Increasingly, ‘creolization’ is used to analyse…

  • Racial Passing

    Racial Passing Ohio State Law Journal Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law Vol. 62: 1145 (2001) Frank R. Strong Law Forum Lecture Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law Harvard Law School I. Passing: A Definition Passing is a deception that enables a person to adopt certain roles or identities from…

  • Embracing Ambiguity: Faces of the Future

    Embracing Ambiguity: Faces of the Future Cal State Fullerton College of the Arts Main Gallery 2010-01-30 through 2010-03-05 Opening Reception: 2010-01-30, 17:00-20:00, artist will be present Panel discussion 2010-02-02, 17:00-19:00, artist will be present 800 N. State College Blvd. Fullerton, CA 92831-3547 Phone (657) 278-7750 Curated by Lynn Stromick and Jillian Nakornthap Featuring Laura Kina,…

  • Beyond White Ethnicity: Developing a Sociological Understanding of Native American Identity Reclamation

    Beyond White Ethnicity: Developing a Sociological Understanding of Native American Identity Reclamation Lexington Books (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) October 2006 262 pages Cloth: 0-7391-1393-3 / 978-0-7391-1393-6 Paper: 0-7391-1394-1 / 978-0-7391-1394-3 Kathleen J. Fitzgerald, Professor of Sociology University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana Through qualitative analysis of individuals, Kathleen J. Fitzgerald studies the…

  • Book Review: Spencer, R. (1999). Spurious Issues: Race and Multiracial Identity Politics in the United States: Boulder, CO: Westview. Spencer, R. (2006). Challenging Multiracial ldentity. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner

    Book Review: Spencer, R. (1999). Spurious Issues: Race and Multiracial Identity Politics in the United States: Boulder, CO: Westview. Spencer, R. (2006). Challenging Multiracial ldentity. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Journal of Black Studies Volume 38, Number 4 (March 2008) pages 679-683 DOI: 10.1177/0021934706296761 Lewis R. Gordon, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy, Director of the…

  • Exploring the Pastoral Dynamics of Mixed-Race Persons

    Exploring the Pastoral Dynamics of Mixed-Race Persons Pastoral Psychology Volume 52, Number 4 (March 2004) Pages 315-328 DOI: 10.1023/B:PASP.0000016936.79800.89 Peter Yuichi Clark, Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care American Baptist Seminary of the West, Berkeley, California The number of persons in the United States who identify with more than one racial group is a steadily growing…

  • Rethinking inclusion and exclusion: the question of mixed-race presence in late colonial India

    Rethinking inclusion and exclusion: the question of mixed-race presence in late colonial India University of Sussex Journal of Contemporary History Issue Five 2002 pp. 1-22 Satoshi Mizutani This article examines the ambivalent meanings of mixed-race presence in late colonial India (from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries). In doing so it contributes insights for pursuing…