Month: September 2010

  • AMCV 1611J – Sex, Love, Race: Miscegenation, Mixed Race and Interracial Relations Brown University Fall 2010 Ulli K. Ryder This class will explore the conditions and consequences for crossing racial boundaries in North America. We will take a multidisciplinary approach, exploring literary, anthropological, and historical writings along with several feature and documentary film treatments of…

  • In mixed-race couples, fathers profoundly influence their children’s racial identifications Research@Rice 2006-09-15 In mixed-race couples, fathers profoundly influence their children’s racial identifications. Interracial marriage increased seven-fold from 1970 to 2000, and how the children of these marriages view their racial identity has a lot to do with their father’s race and the number of father-child…

  • The Veils of the Law: Race and Sexuality in Nella Larsen’s Passing College Literature Volume 22, Number 3 (October 1995) Race and Politics: The Experience of African-American Literature pages 50-67 Corinne E. Blackmer, Associate Professor of English Southern Connecticut State University When Nella Larsen, then a prominent young writer of the Harlem Renaissance, published her…

  • Running Through the Trenches: Or, an Introduction to the Undead Culture Wars and Dead Serious Identity Politics Journal of Communication Inquiry Volume 34, Number 3 (July 2010) pages 210-253 Catherine R. Squires, Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity and Equality University of Minnesota The events of the 2008 election continue to spark prognostications that we live…

  • The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies [Book Review] Civil War Book Review Summer 2010 Michael Perman, Professor of History and Research Professor of Humanities University of Illinois, Chicago Family and Dissent in the South during and after the Civil War Bynum, Victoria E. The Long Shadow of the Civil…

  • The Code Noir (French language: The Black Code) was a decree passed by France’s King Louis XIV in 1685. The Code Noir defined the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire, restricted the activities of free Negroes, forbade the exercise of any religion other than Roman Catholicism, and ordered all Jews out of France’s…

  • Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in private businesses (particularly railroads), under the doctrine of “separate but equal”. Wikipedia Comments by Steven F. Riley: The Plessy decision is significant in…

  • Multiracial College Students: Understanding Interpersonal Self-Concept in the First Year The University of Michigan 2010 151 pages Mark Allen Kamimura A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Education) in The University of Michigan 2010 This purpose of this study was to explore the differences between mixed…

  • Searching for the authentic Red-Black self: Depictions of African-Native subjectivity in literature, visual art, and film University of California, Berkeley 2005 235 pages AAT 3186996 ISBN: 9780542292071 Sarita Nyasha Cannon, Associate Professor of English San Francisco State University In this dissertation, I explore representations of a largely invisible multiracial group: people of Native American and…

  • Texting Obama: Poetics/Politics/Popular Culture Sponsored by English Research Institute, the Manchester Writing School at MMU and The Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences Research 2010-09-07 through 2010-09-10 Texting Obama: Poetics/Politics/Popular Culture is an Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences Conference, mapping and exploring the specific historical, political and cultural climates in which Obama(’s) texts operate. Barack…