Month: May 2010

  • Ethnically mixed individuals: Cultural Homelessness or Multicultural Integration? University of North Texas May 1999 260 pages 15 tables, 6 illustrations, references, 273 titles Veronica Navarrete-Vivero, B. S. CPR University of North Texas Thesis Prepared for the Degree of Master of Science of Psychology Studies addressing racial/ethnic identity development have often overlooked the developmental cultural context.…

  • Founding Chestnut Ridge: The Origins of Central West Virginia’s Multiracial Community The Ohio State University Department of History Project Advisor: Randolph Roth, Professor of History and Sociology March 2010 140 pages Alexandra Finley The Ohio State University Senior Honors Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for graduation with research distinction in History in…

  • The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies [Review by Paul D. Escott] H-Net Reviews May, 2010 3 pages Paul D. Escott, Reynolds Professor of History Wake Forest University “Few histories,” writes Victoria Bynum, “are buried faster or deeper than those of political and social dissenters” (p. 148). The Long Shadow…

  • AM Northwest KATU-TV Live Interview with Heidi W. Durrow AM Northwest KATU-TV (Portland, Oregon) Friday, 2010-05-21 09:00-10:00 PDT (Local time), (12:00-1300 EDT, 16:00-17:00Z) Heidi Durrow appeared on the program AM Norwthwest on KATU-TV (Portland, Oregon) to discuss her new book, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky. You may view the recorded segment below by…

  • Dartmouth Junior wins Beinecke Scholarship Dartmouth College Office of Public Affairs Press Release Media Contact: Kelly Sundberg Seaman 2010-05-18 Anise Vance, a member of the Dartmouth Class of 2011, has been named a Beinecke Scholar, one of 20 college juniors nationally. The award, which supports the “graduate education of young men and women of exceptional…

  • Census trend shows mixed-race Americans are more likely to identify with their multiracial background Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2010-05-18 Brittany Wong, Bruin contributor When President Barack Obama got to Question No. 9 on the 2010 Census, he did what mixed-race respondents nationwide were asked to do: pare down and define his complex…

  • Priming Race in Biracial Observers Affects Visual Search for Black and White Faces Psychological Science Volume 17, Number 5 (2006) Pages 387-392 Joan Y. Chiao, Assistant Professor of Brain, Behavior, and Cognition; Social Psychology Northwestern University Hannah E. Heck Harvard University Ken Nakayama, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology Harvard University Nalini Ambady, Professor and Neubauer…

  • Seeing Like Citizens: Unofficial Understandings of Official Racial Categories in a Brazilian University Journal of Latin American Studies Number 41 (2009) pages 221–250 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X09005550 Luisa Farah Schwartzman, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Toronto This paper investigates how students at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), one of the first Brazilian universities…

  • Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century Columbia University Press August 1997 248 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-231-10493-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-231-10492-0 Kevin Mumford, Professor of African-American History University of Iowa Interzones is an innovative account of how the color line was drawn—and how it was crossed—in twentieth-century American cities.…

  • Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? By G. Reginald Daniel. [Book Review: Skidmore] Hispanic American Historical Review Volumes 88, Number 2 (May 2008) pages 348-349 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-2007-156 Thomas E. Skidmore, Emeritus Professor of History Brown University In 1933, Gilberto Freyre published his classic Casa-grande y senzala. Although it was ostensibly…