Month: May 2010

  • Mixed-race theory for everyone Mixedness & mixing: New perspectives on mixed-race Britons A Commission for Racial Equality eConference 2007-09-04 through 2007-09-06 Jin Haritaworn, Assistant Professor in Gender, Race and Environment at the Faculty of Environmental Studies York University, Canada What insights does mixed-race theory bear for mixed-race people, our allies, and the professionals who work…

  • “Black Skin, Black Masks: Hybridity, Dialogism, Performativity” offers a timely exploration of Black identity and its negotiation. The book draws on empirical work recording everyday conversations between Black women: friends, peers and family members.

  • Multiracial Identity [Movie], World Premiere Screening Politics on Film 2010 Festival Saturday, 2010-05-08, 13:30 EDT (Local Time) E Street Cinema (Purchase tickets on-line here.) 555 11th Street, NW Washington, DC Year: 2010 Director: Brian Chinhema Writer: Brian Chinhema Producer: Brian Chinhema (Abacus Production) Running Time: 01:22:00 Multiracial people are the fastest growing demographic in America, yet…

  • What Are You? Multi-racial and Bi-racial College Student Experiences [Session Handout] Association of College Unions International Annual Conference New York, New York 2010-03-01 13:00Z – 14:15Z 1 March 2010 11 pages Megan E. Bell, Assistant Director University Memorial Center University of Colorado, Boulder Seven million people checked more than one box to select their ethnicity…

  • Biracial Student Voices: Experiences at predominatly white institutions The Bulletin Association of College Unions International Volume 77, Issue 6 (November 2009) Willie L. Banks Jr., Associate Dean of Student Life Cleveland State University Race is a complex issue for campuses to address. Often, universities tout their diversity by sharing statistics about the respective racial populations…

  • This book recreates the lives of the children born of relationships between French men and African women from the time France colonized much of West Africa towards the end of the 19th century, until independence in 1960.

  • Don’t tell me who I am The Guardian 2002-01-12 Libby Brooks, Deputy Comment Editor Jackie Kay has become used to all kinds of assumptions being made about her identity—literary, national, sexual and familial. The more annoying, because the joy of being a writer is that you can create any persona you like. On the other…

  • Census Nonsense: Why Barack Obama isn’t black. The New Republic 2010-04-07 John Judis, Senior Editor and Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace When asked about his race on the census form, Barack Obama, the child of a white Kansan and black African, did not take the option of checking both “white” and…

  • Race/Ethnicity and the 2000 Census: Recommendations for African American and Other Black Populations in the United States Amercan Journal of Public Health Volume 90, Number 11 (November 2000) pages 1728-1730 David R. Williams, Florence and Laura Norman Professor of Public Health and of African and African American Studies Harvard University James S. Jackson, Daniel Katz…

  • Legal History of the Color Line: The Rise and Triumph of the One-Drop Rule Backintyme Publishing 2005 542 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780939479238 Frank W. Sweet Every Year, 35,000 Black-Born Youngsters Redefine Themselves as White About 1/3 of “White” Americans have detectable African DNA Genealogists were the first to learn that America’s color line leaks. Black…