Mixed Race Studies

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Day: January 26, 2011

  • Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted

    Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted 1893 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Project Gutenberg EBook 2004-05-14 #12352 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) Read the entire book here.

  • Anglo-Indians in Hollywood, Bollywood and Arthouse Cinema

    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”

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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…