Month: January 2011

  • Anglo-Indians in Hollywood, Bollywood and Arthouse Cinema Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 1 (February 2007) pages 55-68 DOI: 10.1080/07256860601082939 Glenn D’Cruz, Senior Lecturer of Performance Studies Deakin University, Australia Apart from a few disparaging remarks about offensive stereotypes by Anglo-Indian writers and politicians such as Gloria Jean Moore, Frank Anthony and Gillian Hart,…

  • Stepping into the Same River Twice: Internal/External Subversion of the Inside/Outside Dialectic in Alice Walker’s “The Temple of My Familiar” Journal of Bisexuality Volume 2, Issue 2 & 3 (October 2002) pages 53-71 DOI: 10.1300/J159v02n02_04 Sikorski Grace, Associate Professor of English Anne Arundel Community College, Maryland Passing novels, exemplified here by E. Lynn Harris’s Invisible…

  • Surveying the Intersection: Pathology, Secrecy, and the Discourses of Racial and Sexual Identity Journal of Homosexuality Volume 26, Issue 2 & 3 (December 1993) pages 1-20 DOI: 10.1300/J082v26n02_01 Marylynne Diggs “Surveying the Intersection: Pathology, Secrecy, and the Discourses of Racial and Sexual Identity” cautions against the risks of metaphorical imperialism in readings of codified gay…

  • The Devil and the One Drop Rule: Racial Categories, African Americans and the U.S. Census Michigan Law Review Volume 95, Number 5 (March 1997) pages 1161-1265 Christine B. Hickman, Associate Professor of Law California Western School of Law Table of Contents Introduction I. Treatment of Mixed-Race People: The Early Legal Record A. The First African…

  • Civilisation, Culture and the Hybrid Self in the work of Robert Ezra Park Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 27, Issue 4 (November 2006) pages 413-433 DOI: 10.1080/07256860600936911 Vince Marotta, Senior Lecturer in Sociology Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Contemporary discussions on hybridity in cultural and ethnic studies have overlooked the work of the Chicago sociologist Robert…

  • PSU MFA Monday Lecture Series: Laylah Ali Portland State University Campus (at the corner of SW Broadway & Hall) Shattuck Hall Annex 1914 SW Park Ave, Room 198 Portland, Oregon 2011-01-31, 19:30-20:30 PST (Local Time) Laylah Ali, Associate Professor of Art Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts Free to the public Laylah Ali was born in Buffalo, New…

  • Researching mixed race in education: perceptions, policies and practices Race Ethnicity and Education Volume 10, Issue 3 (September 2007) pages 345-362 DOI: 10.1080/13613320701503389 Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Jo Haynes, Lecturer in Sociology University of Bristol Leon Tikly, Professor in Education and Deputy Director of…

  • Kelly Jackson: Faculty spotlight Arizona State University College of Public Programs 2011-01-14 Dr. Kelly Jackson is an Assistant Professor in Social Work in the College of Public Programs. Before coming to the College four years ago, she earned her Masters in Social Work from the University at Albany, and her PhD in Social Welfare from…

  • Mixed ethnicity, identity and adoption: research, policy and practice Child & Family Social Work Volume 14, Issue 4 (November 2009) pages 431–439 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2009.00614.x Marsha Wood, Research Associate Centre for Family Policy and Child Welfare at the School for Policy Studies University of Bristol, United Kingdom Mixed ethnicity children are over-represented in the care system…

  • Admixture in a biologically African caste of Black Americans American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 74, Issue 2 (October 1987) pages 265–273 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330740213 Curtis W. Wienker, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology University of South Florida Social and historical factors account for much of the variation in European ancestry among different Black American populations, including that…