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Month: February 2010

  • Deciding on Doctrine: Anti-Miscegenation Statutes and the Development of Equal Protection Analysis

    Deciding on Doctrine: Anti-Miscegenation Statutes and the Development of Equal Protection Analysis Virginia Law Review Number 95, Issue 3 (May 2009) pages 627-665 Rebecca Schoff University of Virginia School of Law In 1967, the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States were in complete agreement that the statutory scheme before them in Loving…

  • Mapping Identity – Opening Lecture by Kwame Anthony Appiah

    Mapping Identity – Opening Lecture by Kwame Anthony Appiah Haverford University KINSC Sharpless Auditorium 2010-03-19 16:00 EDT (Local Time) Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy Princeton University Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery presents Mapping Identity, curated by Carol Solomon, Visiting Associate Professor, and Janet Yoon, HC ’10. The show will run…

  • Reconstructing Hybridity: Post-Colonial Studies in Transition

    Reconstructing Hybridity: Post-Colonial Studies in Transition Rodopi 2007 330 pages Hardback: 978-90-420-2141-9 / 90-420-2141-1 Edited by: Joel Kuortti, Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Culture University of Jyväskylä, Finland Jopi Nyman, Acting Professor of English University of Joensuu, Finland This interdisciplinary collection of critical articles seeks to reassess the concept of hybridity and its relevance to post-colonial…

  • Caught Between Cultures: Women, Writing & Subjectivities

    Caught Between Cultures: Women, Writing & Subjectivities Rodopi 2002 152 pages Hardback: 978-90-420-1378-0 / 90-420-1378-8 Paperback: 978-90-420-1368-1 / 90-420-1368-0 Edited by: Elizabeth Russell, Professor of Womens Studies and British Literature University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona The essays in this collection (on Canada, the USA, Australia and the UK) question and discuss the issues of cross-cultural…

  • What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America (Review)

    What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America (Review) Law and Politics Book Review American Political Science Association 2009-03-23 pp. 218-220 Mark Kessler, Chair of the Department of History & Government and Professor of Government Texas Woman’s Univeristy What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America. By Peggy…

  • Sociohistorical Constructions of Race and Language: Impacting Biracial Identity

    Sociohistorical Constructions of Race and Language: Impacting Biracial Identity A chapter in The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination. By Jean Lau Chin (Editor). (Santa Barbara, California. Praeger Publishers, 2004. 1,000 pages. ISBN: 0-275-98234-3, ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98234-8) Matthew J. Taylor, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Missouri, St. Louis Historically, race has been constructed within the American psyche…

  • Dangerous Woman: Elizabeth Key’s Freedom Suit – Subjecthood and Racialized Identity in Seventeenth Century Colonial Virginia

    Elizabeth Key, an African-Anglo woman living in seventeenth century colonial Virginia sued for her freedom after being classified as a negro by the overseers of her late master’s estate. Her lawsuit is one of the earliest freedom suits in the English colonies filed by a person with some African ancestry. Elizabeth’s case also highlights those…

  • Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader (Review)

    Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader (Review) Law and Politics Book Review American Political Science Association Volume 13,  Number 4 (April 2003) Barbara L. Graham, Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri, St. Louis Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader. By Kevin R. Johnson (Editor). (New York and London: New York…

  • White Enough to Be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation (Review)

    White Enough to Be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation (Review) Law and Politics Book Review American Political Science Association Vol. 18 No.9 (2008-09-15) pp. 788-791 Daniel Lipson, Professor of Political Science State University of New York, New Paltz White Enough to Be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and…

  • Art Showcase Seeks to Study Racial Identity

    Art Showcase Seeks to Study Racial Identity Daily Nexus University of California, Santa Barbara 2010-02-02 Issue 70, Volume 90 Julie Epstein, Staff Writer The UCSB Women’s Center is currently hosting a multicultural art exhibit featuring work from students and professional artists. The art on display ranges from paintings to photography, and even includes a work…