Month: September 2010

  • History 328: American Mixed Blood Oberlin College Department of History Fall 2009 Pablo Mitchell, Eric and Jane Nord Associate Professor of History and Comparative American Studies Oberlin College From the coyote and the half-breed to the “tragic” mulatto, people of mixed ethnic and racial heritage occupy a conflicted and controversial place in American history. This…

  • White Negro Communities: Too White To Be Black And Too Black To Be White Johnathon Odell: Discovering Our Stories 2010-07-25 John Odell Yvonne Bivins had to make a choice very few Americans have forced upon them.  She could live as a black woman or a white woman. Yvonne’s ancestry is enmeshed with the Knights of…

  • Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920 University of Chicago Press 2005 224 pages 10 halftones  6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 9780226532424 Paper ISBN: 9780226532431 E-book ISBN: 9780226532523 Pablo Mitchell, Eric and Jane Nord Associate Professor of History and Comparative American Studies Oberlin College With the arrival of the transcontinental railroad…

  • “A Fascinating Interracial Experiment Station”: Remapping the Orient-Occident Divide in Hawai’i American Studies Volume 49, Number 3/4, Fall/Winter 2008 pages 87-109 E-ISSN: 2153-6856 Print ISSN: 0026-3079 Shelley Sang-Hee Lee, Assistant Professor of Comparative American Studies and History Oberlin College Rick Baldoz, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology Oberlin College Introduction During the 1920s and 1930s, American…

  • Family Matters in the Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt The Southern Literary Journal Volume 33, Number 2, Spring 2001 pages 30-43 E-ISSN: 1534-1461 Print ISSN: 0038-4291 DOI: 10.1353/slj.2001.0012 William M. Ramsey, Professor of English Francis Marion University Writing fiction one hundred years ago, Charles W. Chesnutt believed that America’s racial future was best embodied in…

  • The case of Ebony and Topaz: Racial and Sexual Hybridity in Harlem Renaissance Illustrations American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography Volume 15, Number 1, (2005) pages 86-111 E-ISSN: 1548-4238 Print ISSN: 1054-7479 DOI: 10.1353/amp.2005.0006 Caroline Goeser, Assistant Professor of Art History University of Houston > University of Virginia Ebony and Topaz was…

  • What Can DNA Really Tell Us About Race? UCtelevision Unviersity of California 2007-04-25 00:54:55 Introduction by Howard Winnant, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Troy Duster, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley and Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge New York University One…

  • Racial Choice at Century’s End in Contemporary African American Literature University of Maryland 2008 161 pages Kaylen Danielle Tucker Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2008 This dissertation introduces the term “racial…

  • Rethinking race and politics: Mixed race and the trajectory of minority politics in the United States University of California, Irvine 2007 232 pages AAT 3274346 ISBN: 9780549148944 Natalie Masuoka, Assistant Professor of Political Science Tufts University This project addresses how minority communities frame collective identities and organize political agendas amidst growing levels of racial and…

  • Equivocal subjects: The representation of mixed-race identity in Italian film University of California, Irvine 2007 226 pages AAT 3296258 ISBN: 9780549410775 Shelleen Maisha Greene, Assistant Professor of Conceptual Studies University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee My dissertation seeks to establish a critical framework for the analysis of mixed-race subjects in Italian film. Within the Italian context, mixed-race…