Month: December 2010

  • It is known that neither the Indian nor Negro contends in dignity and esteem with the Spaniard; nor do any of the others envy the lot of the Negro, who is the “most dispirited and despised”. […] It is held as systematic that a Spaniard and an Indian produce a mestizo; a mestizo and a…

  • The whole story on being ‘hafu’ CNN International CNN Go 2010-11-29 Daniel Krieger The movie ‘Hafu’ explores the limbo world of people who are half-Japanese and half something else, as they try to find their place in society What does it mean to be half-Japanese in 21st-century Japan? This is what filmmakers Megumi Nishikura and…

  • Biracial Youth and Families in Therapy: Issues and Interventions Journal of Marital and Family Therapy Volume 26, Issue 3 (July 2000) pages 305–315 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2000.tb00300.x Stephanie Milan, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Connecticut Margaret K. Keiley, Professor Director of Clinical Research Center for Children, Youth, and Families Auburn University Empirical research and clinical resources…

  • Characterizing the Admixed African Ancestry of African Americans Genome Biology Volume 10, Issue 12 (2009) R141 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2009-10-12-r141 Fouad Zakharia Department of Genetics Stanford University School of Medicine Analabha Basu Institute for Human Genetics University of California, San Francisco Devin Absher HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama Themistocles L. Assimes Division of Cardiovascular Medicine Stanford…

  • Will there ever be a rainbow Japan? CNN International CNN Go 2010-12-01 Tracy Slater Government statistics suggest multiculturalism is on the rise, but social organizations for mixed-race Japanese say ‘hafus’ still face challenges Japan, which closed its borders from 1639 to 1854 and later colonized its neighbors, has an uneasy history with foreigners, national identity,…

  • Cross ’12, Castagno ’12 Participate in Mixed Race Conference The Wesleyan Connecton Welyean University’s Newsletter 2010-12-02 Olivia Drake Rachel Cross ’12 and Alicia Castagno ’12 participated as panel members in a session of the Critical Mixed Race Conference sponsored by dePaul University in Chicago Nov. 5-6 [2010]. The conference was attended by academicians and students…

  • The Re-Emergence of Race as a Biological Category: The Societal Implications—Reaffirmation of Race The Iowa Law Review Volume 94, Number 5 (July 2009) pages 1547-1587 Alex M. Johnson, Jr., Perre Bowen Professor of Law; Thomas F. Bergin Teaching Professor of Law and Director, Center for the Study of Race and Law University of Virginia Table…

  • Destabilizing Racial Classifications Based on Insights Gleaned from Trademark Law California Law Review Volume 84, Number 4 (July, 1996) pages 887-952 Alex M. Johnson, Jr., Perre Bowen Professor of Law; Thomas F. Bergin Teaching Professor of Law and Director, Center for the Study of Race and Law University of Virginia Analogy to trademark law offers…

  • “What Are You?”: Exploring Racial Categorization in “Nowhere Else on Earth” The Southern Literary Journal Volume 39, Number 1 (Fall, 2006) pages 33-53 Erica Abrams Locklear, Assistant Professor of Literature & Language University of North Carolina, Asheville In his introduction to the 1985 collection of essays entitled “Race,” Writing, and Difference, Henry Louis Gates rightfully…

  • The Coe Ridge Colony: A Racial Island Disappears American Anthropologist Volume 74, Issue 3 (June 1972) pages 710–719 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.3.02a00350 Lynwood Montell Western Kentucky University The ninety year history of a racial isolate in the Kentucky–Tennessee border is examined. Peopled by a mixed population of Whites, Blacks, and, occasionally, Indians, the community received notoriety as…