Day: September 5, 2010

  • This groundbreaking study analyzes the development of American gothic literature alongside nineteenth-century discourses of passing and racial ambiguity.

  • Black or Biracial? Who Gets to Decide? The Huffington Post 2009-03-04 Abby L. Ferber, Associate Professor, Director of the Matrix Center and Co-Director of Women’s and Ethnic Studies University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Is Obama Black? Biracial? And why do we care so much? A new book by George Yancey and Richard Lewis, Jr., Interracial…

  • AAS 355. Biracial and Multiracial Identity California State University, Northridge Asian American Studies Interdisciplinarily studies the socio-historical realities, identities, and political maintenance of people with multiple racial and ethnic heritages; examines the binary racial structure of the U.S., social and legal customs of racial designation and membership; focuses on multiracial populations such as Creoles, mulattos,…

  • ‘It’s like I’m part of every race’ The Straits Times Malaysia 2010-08-08 Edora Mayangsari Lopez, 18 Eurasian-Malay The psychology student at the Management Development Institute of Singapore has a Eurasian father and a Malay-Javanese mother. Both of them are Singaporeans. She is the younger of two children and has relatives in Europe, Australia, Malaysia and…

  • Davidson Welcomes New Professors into the Fold Davidson College Davidson, North Carolina 2007-08-30 Rachel Andoga Davidson welcomes five new assistant professors into tenure-track positions this semester. Here are  profiles of their careers and academic interests. Caroline Beschea-Fache, a native of northern France, joins the French Department as a specialist in Métissage, the study of biracialism,…

  • Voices from the Gaps: Kym Ragusa Voices from the Gaps University of Minnesota 2007-04-24 Shalee Dettmann Joey Grihalva Jenna Fodness Gaushia Thao I don’t know where I was conceived, but I was made in Harlem. Its topography is mapped on my body: the borderlines between neighborhoods marked by streets that were forbidden to cross, the…