Day: March 25, 2010

  • Assessing Shifting Racial Boundaries: Racial Classification of Biracial Asian Children in the 2000 Census Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2009-12-07 77 pages Sara Megan McDonough Thesis submitted to the faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Sociology. This…

  • DEEP: A Photo-Essay by Clement Cooper Clement Cooper DEEP explores the contentious issue surrounding British Mixed-Race identity through image & oral testimony. From 1992 to 1997, Clement Cooper journeyed to and lived in several port cities throughout the UK. Locations where: Toxteth, Liverpool, St Paul’s, Bristol; Butetown, Cardiff & Manchester. Using available natural light and…

  • Double Consciousness in the Work of Helen Oyeyemi and Diana Evans Women: A Cultural Review Volume 20, Issue 3 (December 2009) pages 277-286 DOI: 10.1080/09574040903285735 Pilar Cuder-Domnguez, Associate Professor University of Huelva, Spain The first novels published by Helen Oyeyemi and Diana Evans feature twins of mixed-race parentage—a Nigerian mother and an English father—growing up…

  • The Complexities of the Visible: Mexican Women’s Experiences of Racism, Mestizaje and National Identity Goldsmiths College, University of London 2006 Monica Moreno Figueroa, Lecturer in Sociology Newcastle University, United Kingdom The thesis analyses the contemporary practices of racism in relation to discourses of mestizaje in Mexico. It focuses on the qualities of women’s experiences of…

  • Mutants, mudbloods, and futureheroes: Mixed race identity in contemporary narrative The University of New Mexico May 2008 327 pages Publication Number: AAT 3318087 ISBN: 9780549676652 Felecia Rose Caton-Garcia A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy American Studies The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico At…

  • “They Call It Marriage”: the Louisiana Interracial Family and the Making of American Legitimacy Book Manuscript In Progress Diana Irene Williams, Assistant Professor of History, Law and Gender Studies University of Southern California Winner of the 2008 William Nelson Cromwell Dissertation Prize in Legal History. “They Call it Marriage” examines interracial marriage between black women…