Day: November 9, 2010

  • Finally, while his name does not appear in the text or bibliography, I want to acknowledge the deep debt I owe to Steven Riley, who maintains the mixed-race scholarly website, “Mixed Race Studies: Scholarly Perspectives on the Mixed Race Experience” (http://www.MixedRaceStudies.org), which is the most comprehensive and objective clearinghouse for scholarly publications related to critical…

  • Dr. Susan Straight to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #180-Susan Straight When: Tuesday, 2010-11-09, 22:00Z…

  • Heredity of Skin Color in Negro-White Crosses Carnegie Institution of Washington 1913 106 pages Number 188, Paper Number 20 of the Station for experimental evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, New York Charles B. Davenport (1866-1944), Director Eugenics Record Office, Carnegie Department of Genetics, and Biological Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor, New York Table of Contents A.…

  • “Death by Misadventure”: Teaching Transgression in/through Larsen’s “Passing” College Literature Volume 37, Number 4, Fall 2010 pages 120-144 E-ISSN: 1542-4286 Print ISSN: 0093-3139 DOI: 10.1353/lit.2010.0013 Jessica Labbé, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum Greensboro College, Greensboro, North Carolina This article provides college literature teachers with a detailed historical, theoretical, and…

  • “Slippin’ Into Darkness”: The (Re)Biologization of Race Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 13, Number 3 (October 2010) pages 343-358 E-ISSN: 1096-8598 Print ISSN: 1097-2129 Michael Omi, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Berkeley While the dominant mantra in humanities and the social sciences is that “race is a social construction, not a…

  • Beyond Color-blind Universalism: Asians in a “Postracial America” Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 13, Number 3 (October 2010) pages 327-342 E-ISSN: 1096-8598; Print ISSN: 1097-2129 Linda Trinh Võ, Associate Professor Department of Asian American Studies School of Humanities University of California, Irvine Beyond the symbolism of President Barack Hussein Obama’s election is the unseen…