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Month: January 2010

  • An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America

    An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America Farrar, Straus and Giroux an imprint of Macmillan 2003 416 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches 16 Pages of Black-and-White Illustrations/Map/Notes/Index Paperback ISBN: 978-0-374-52951-2, ISBN10: 0-374-52951-5 Henry Wiencek L.A. Times Book Prize – Winner, History A major new biography of Washington, and…

  • Biracial Self-Identification: Impact on Trait Anxiety, Social Anxiety, and Depression

    Biracial Self-Identification: Impact on Trait Anxiety, Social Anxiety, and Depression Identity Volume 7, Issue 2 May 2007 pages 103 – 114 DOI: 10.1080/15283480701326018   Victoria H. Coleman Department of Psychology, American University, Washington, D.C. M. M. Carter Department of Psychology, American University, Washington, D.C. Sixty-one Biracial participants were assessed on measures of depression, trait anxiety,…

  • Barack Obama’s America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era

    Barack Obama’s America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era The University of Michgan Press 2009 320 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-472-11450-4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-472-03391-1 Ebook Formats ISBN: 978-0-472-02179-6 John Kenneth White, Professor of Politics Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C Research and reflections on the American demographic…

  • Brown Skinned White Girls: class, culture and the construction of white identity in suburban communities

    Brown Skinned White Girls: class, culture and the construction of white identity in suburban communities Gender, Place & Culture Volume 3, Issue 2 July 1996 pages 205 – 224 DOI: 10.1080/09663699650021891 France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Feminist scholars theorizing about whiteness and white identity have not examined the pivotal…

  • The Ethics of Identity

    But to what extent do “identities” constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our individuality?

  • Mixed Race in the United States (Lecture Series)

     Mixed Race in the United States Simpson Center for The Humanities at the University of Washington Dates (Local Time: 19:30 PST): 2010-01-06, 2010-01-20, 2010-02-03, 2010-02-17, and 2010-03-03 Location: Kane Hall 220 Is it coincidence that the first nonwhite president of the United States comes from a multiracial background? Or was his election, in fact, partially…

  • Racial ambiguity among the Brazilian population

    Racial ambiguity among the Brazilian population Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 25, Issue 3 (May 2002) pages 415-441 DOI: 10.1080/01419870252932133 Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University I investigate the extent to which interviewers and respondents in a 1995 national survey consistently classify race in Brazil, overall and in particular contexts. Overall, classification as…

  • Being Multiracial in a Country that Sees Black and White

    Being Multiracial in a Country that Sees Black and White Interpolations: A Journal of First Year Writing Deparment of English, University of Maryland Fall 2009 Lavisha McClarin University of Maryland In America mixed race individuals are becoming more prominent in the media, politics and sports throughout the country. Some of the most popular mixed race…

  • Firsthand multlicultural experience

    Firsthand multlicultural experience The Daily Independent (Ashland, Kentucky) 2009-10-22 Mike James Ashland — When he brings up the fact that he is biracial, Elliott Lewis most often hears platitudes. Some of them are flattering, others not so much. The one that drives him nuts is the question, “What are you?” It’s one of the things he…

  • Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America

    Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America Basic Books an imprint of The Perseus Books Group 2006-12-28 302 pages ISBN: 9780786718825 ISBN-10: 078671882X Elliott Lewis Television journalist Elliott Lewis weaves his memoirs as a black-and-white biracial American with the voices of dozens of multiracial people who are challenging how we think and speak about race today.…