Day: April 1, 2011

  • Census Data Presents Rise in Multiracial Population of Youths The New York Times 2011-03-24 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent WASHINGTON — Among American children, the multiracial population has increased almost 50 percent, to 4.2 million, since 2000, making it the fastest growing youth group in the country. The number of people of all ages who identified…

  • Seeing Black Women Anew through Lesbian Desire in Nella Larsen’s Passing Rocky Mountain Review Rocky Mountain Language Association Volume 60, Number 1 (Spring 2006) pages 25-52 H. Jordan Landry, Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Beginning in the 1910s and 1920s, a series of novels advocate that African Americans commit themselves to “loving blackness,”…

  • Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels [Review] Rocky Mountain Review Rocky Mountain Language Association Volume 61, Number 1 (Spring 2007) pages 41-43 Susana M. Morris, Assistant Professor of English Auburn University Ryan Simmons. Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. 198p. Ryan Simmons’ Chesnutt and Realism:…

  • Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novel The University of Alabama Press 2006 208 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-1520-7 E-Book ISBN: 978-0-8173-8228-5 Ryan Simmons An important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism.   With the release of previously unpublished novels and a recent proliferation of critical studies on his life and work,…

  • Multicultural Artist and Educator to Speak at UVU Utah Valley University Orem, Utah 2011-03-24 Jim Rayburn Louie Gong, a nationally-recognized artist and mixed-heritage advocate, will speak at Utah Valley University on March 31 at 2 p.m. at the Sorensen Student Center, room 206A. Gong—of Nooksack, Squamish, Chinese, French and Scottish descent—is known best for his…

  • Mixed Dreams: Exploring “Multi” Experiences in the U.S. EXCO (Experimental College) Spring 2011 Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio Nicole Asong Nfonoyim The experiences and identities of mixed-race people in the United States have often been marginalized if not rendered invisible, silenced and subsumed under the dominant black-white binary. While mixed identities have been part of U.S.…