Month: April 2010

  • Hapas: Emerging Identity, Emerging Terms and Labels & the Social Construction of Race Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies Volume II (October 2009) 20 pages Adriane E. Gamble Adriane E. Gamble presents part of her honors thesis in her paper “Hapas: Emerging Identity, Emerging Terms and Labels, and the Social Construction of Race.” Her paper…

  • A Phantom Childhood: Memories of my Ghost Brother by Heinz Insu Fenkl [Book Review] Korean Quarterly Spring 1998 Marie Lee Setting a novel from a child’s point of view can be as risky a venture as, say, writing a novel in dialect. How to wrest an adult meaning from a child’s unformed thoughts? But if…

  • The identity development of mixed race individuals in Canada University of Alberta Spring 2010 131 pages Monica Das A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education in Psychological Studies in Education The purpose of this study was to explore…

  • Boundaries Transgressed: Modernism and miscegenation in Langston Hughes’s “Red-Headed Baby” Atlantic Studies Volume 3, Issue 1 (April 2006) pages 97 – 110 DOI: 10.1080/14788810500525499 Isabel Soto This essay is an expanded and revised version of a paper read at the 8th International Conference On the Short Story in English, organized by the Instituto Universitario de…

  • A young Amerasian comes of age as he grows up in the Korean city of Inchon and struggles to come to terms with his own identity and with his memories of a lost half-brother, whom his Korean mother sacrificed to marry his American father.

  • Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture (review) MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 35, Number 1 (Spring 2010) E-ISSN: 1946-3170 Print ISSN: 0163-755X DOI: 10.1353/mel.0.0078 David Todd Lawrence, Associate Professor of English University of St. Thomas Passing narratives have long been a fixture of American literature. For African American authors, plots of racial…

  • Triumphant Miscegenation: Reflections on Beauty and Race in Brazil Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 1 (February 2007) pages 83-97 DOI: 10.1080/07256860601082954 Alexander Edmonds, Professor of Medical Anthropology and Sociology University of Amsterdam In Brazil racial mixture, mestiçagem has been a dominant theme in the political and cultural re-imagination of the nation in the…

  • “Des couleurs primitives”: Miscegenation and French Painting of Algeria Visual Resources Volume 24, Issue 3 (2008) pages 273 – 298 DOI: 10.1080/01973760802284638 Peter Benson Miller, Art Historian Rome Art Program The Romantic concept of “local color” refers to a site of painterly experimentation, the application of pigment in the chromatic construction of a picture. The…

  • The 2010 census, which hit mailboxes this month, is causing scholars and mixed-race people to debate, for just the second time in the count’s history, the dilemma of whether or not to check multiple “race” boxes.

  • Ideologies of racial purity and pollution are as old as America, and so is interracial mixing. Yet the one-drop rule did not, as many have suggested, make all mixed-race people black. From the beginning, African Americans assimilated into white communities across the South. Often, becoming white did not require the deception normally associated with racial…