Month: December 2010

  • Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness (review) Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 41, Number 3, Winter 2010 E-ISSN: 1530-9169, Print ISSN: 0022-1953 pages 478-480 Adriane Lentz-Smith, Hunt Family Assistant Professor History Duke Univeristy In October 1924, Leonard Rhinelander, scion of a wealthy and well-established New York family, wed Alice Jones,…

  • Natasha Trethewey: 2010 Littoral: The Journal of Key West Literary Seminar 2010-03-17 Arlo Haskell Natasha Trethewey is the author of three collections of poetry, including Native Guard, which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, Bellocq’s Ophelia, and Domestic Work, which won the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize. A native of Mississippi, a member of the Dark…

  • French110s: From Haiti to New Orleans John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Duke University Fall 2010 Deborah Jenson Haiti Lab: Undergraduate Opportunities The first Humanities Laboratory at Duke, one of the key goals of the Haiti Lab is to bring innovative, interdisciplinary research more fully into the undergraduate experience at Duke and, indeed, to invite undergraduates…

  • “War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art” Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference University of California, Riverside Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide: Settler Colonialism/Heteropatriarchy/White Supremacy 2011-03-10 through 2011-03-12 Laura Kina, Associate Professor of Art, Media, and Design and distinguished Vincent de Paul Professor DePaul University Wei Ming Dariotis, Associate Professor Asian American…

  • ASNAMST 173S: Transcultural and Multiethnic Lives: Contexts, Controversies, and Challenges (AFRICAAM 173S, CSRE 173S) Stanford University Spring 2011 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Lived experience of people who dwell in the border world of race and nation where they negotiate transcultural and multiethnic identities and politics. Comparative, historical, and global contexts such as family and class. Controversies, such…

  • The Browning and Yellowing of Whiteness The Black Commentator 2005 Tamara K. Nopper, Adjunct Professor of Asian American Studies University of Pennsylvania Latino/as and Asians Americans do not necessarily reject dominant culture and ideology when it comes to racial politics. A Review of Who is White?: Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide by George…

  • Greg Carroll Draws Large Crowd for Talk on Melungeon Heritage West Virginia Archives & History West Virginia Division of Culture & History Volume 11, Number 8 (October 2010) page 2 Archives historian Greg Carroll drew a large crowd for his talk [2010-09-09] on groups of people in the Appalachian area and beyond commonly called Melungeon.…

  • AAS 4570 – Passing in African-American Imagination University of Virginia The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American & African Studies Spring 2011 Alisha Gaines, Post-Doctoral Fellow (English) Duke University This course considers the canonical African American literary tradition and popular culture texts that think through the boundaries of blackness and identity through the organizing trope…

  • SOCI 006 601 – Race and Ethnic Relations University of Pennsylvania College of Liberal and Professional Studies Spring 2011 Tamara Nopper, Adjunct Professor of Asian American Studies The election of Barack Obama as the United States’ first Black president has raised questions about whether we have entered a post-racial society. This course examines the idea…

  • “Mixed Race, White Mother: Love and Identity in the Age of Obama” 8th Floor, Raymond Hall State University of New York, Potsdam 2011-03-22, 16:00 EST (Local Time) Dr. Traci Fordham-Hernandez, Associate Professor of Performance and Communication Arts St. Lawrence University Part of the SUNY Potsdam Women’s and Gender Studies Anne R. Malone Lecture Series. For…