Day: March 7, 2010

  • Changing the stereotypes The Daily University of Washington 2010-02-25 Kristen Steenbeeke Sophomores Gabbie Duncalf and Fitsum Misgano were taking a class about mixed race when they first learned about the organization Mixed. After hearing that the group — which caters specifically to mixed-race students but is open to anyone — was lacking officers, they decided…

  • Barack Obama’s rise marks America’s first multiracial decade Yahoo News 2009-12-09 Thomas Kelley Everyone has a day of awakening when it comes to race. For me, it was a cool September day when I was eight years old. My family had recently moved to Colorado from Tennessee and like any child starting a new school,…

  • Biracial Identity: Beyond Black and White The Boston College Chronicle 2003-02-13 Volume 11, Number 11 Sean Smith, Chronicle Editor Sociologist’s expertise built on experience, not just scholarly inquiry The man in the next seat had been eyeing her furtively for a while, so Asst. Prof. Kerry Ann Rockquemore (Sociology) figured it was only a matter…

  • Through Russwurm’s Eyes: ‘The Conditions and Prospects of Haiti’ Campus News Bowdoin College 2010-03-01 John B. Russwurm, the College’s first African-American graduate and thought to be the third African-American to graduate from an American college, delivered a commencement address in 1826 that resonates nearly 184 years later. The speech, “The Condition and Prospects of Haiti,”…

  • The remarkable saga of a mixed-race family in nineteenth-century America