Month: March 2011

  • Mixed Race Beauty Gets a Mainstream Makeover TruthDig 2011-03-07 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Are mixed race faces considered the most beautiful? A recent report from Allure magazine says yes. Results of a survey conducted by Allure reveal that 64 percent of its readers thought mixed race was the most attractive. The editors…

  • Symptomatic, Danzy Senna’s second novel, is a dense and disturbing satire of the post-1967 mixed-race movement. Tersely written, “hard-edged and kind of minimalist,” as Senna describes it in an interview with Rebecca Weber, it invokes the thrillers and film noir of Roman Polanski, Alfred Hitchcock, Brian DePalma, and Barbet Schroeder (Single White Female), to name…

  • Symptomatic Riverhead Books (an imprint of Penguin) February 2005 224 pages 5.07 x 7.87in Paperback ISBN: 9781594480676 Danzy Senna A young woman moves to New York City for what promises to be a dream job. Displaced, she feels unsure of her fit in the world. Then comes a look of recognition, a gesture of friendship from…

  • Under the Moon’s Light Directory of World Cinema 2011 English Title: Under the Moon’s Light Original Title: Sous la clarté de la lune Country of Origin: Burkina Faso, France Studio: Les Films de la plaine, NDK productions Director: Apolline Traoré Producer(s): Idrissa Ouédraogo Screenplay: Apolline Traoré Cinematographer: Daniel Barrau Editor: Lucie Thierry Runtime: 90 minutes…

  • Request to interview members of multiracial organizations for Sociology Honors Research Study My name is Steve Alcantar, a Sociology honors student attending the University of California, Irvine who is currently conducting a research study from January until April of this year [2011] on government classification of multiracial individuals. The purpose of this study is to observe how…

  • The tradition of a big Irish welcome isn’t always evident to a mixed-race Irish woman in Dublin, writes Zélie Asava

  • The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary Rutgers University Press 2011-01-19 248 pages, 3 photographs Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4783-1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4782-4 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8135-4989-7 Lori Harrison-Kahan, Full-time Adjunct Faculty in English Boston College During the first half of the twentieth century, American Jews demonstrated a commitment to racial justice as well as an…

  • Not an “Other” Online Newshour 1997-07-16 Paul Solman, Host Increasingly, many Americans find they don’t easily fit into any racial group. But will adding a new “multiracial” category on the census take away the effectiveness of the count? After a background piece by Betty Ann Bowser, Paul Solman leads a debate. PAUL SOLMAN: Well, what…

  • Charles W. Chesnutt and the Engendering of a Post-Reconstruction Multiracial Politics The Conversation Number 2 (2009-2010) Kirin Wachter-Grene Once a promising fiction writer and would-be spokesman for African-Americans, Charles W. Chesnutt promoted a form of multiracialism but is largely forgotten today. Kirin Wachter-Grene traces the development of Chesnutt’s ideas about the amalgamation of races and…

  • The Cuneys: A Southern Family in White and Black Texas Tech University August 2000 289 pages Douglas Hales, Professor of History Temple College, Temple, Texas A Dissertation in History Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Texas Tech University in Partial FulfiUment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy [Note from Steven F.…