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Month: May 2011

  • The Complexities of Identity: Teaching Michelle Cliff’s Abeng to High School Students

    The Complexities of Identity: Teaching Michelle Cliff’s Abeng to High School Students Minnesota English Journal Volume 45 – Fall 2009 pages 19-33 Angie Iserman, English Teacher Owatonna High School, Owatonna, Minnesota When I decided to return to the role of student in order to obtain my graduate degree, my hope was I could bury myself within…

  • The Modern Mulatto: A Comparative Analysis of the Social and Legal Positions of Mulattoes in the Antebellum South and the Intersex in Contemporary America

    The Modern Mulatto: A Comparative Analysis of the Social and Legal Positions of Mulattoes in the Antebellum South and the Intersex in Contemporary America Columbia Journal of Gender and Law Volume 15, Number 3 (September 2006) Marie-Amélie George, Associate Lawyer Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Recognizing new social forces working against the “correction”…

  • Abeng

    Abeng Penguin Press 1984 176 pages 5.35 x 8.07in ISBN 9780452274839 Michelle Cliff Ever since Abeng was first published in 1984, Michelle Cliff has steadily become a literary force. Her novels evoke both the clearly delineated hierarchies of colonial Jamaica and the subtleties of present-day island life. Nowhere is her power felt more than in…

  • As the mixed-race population grows, the stigma of the past fades

    As the mixed-race population grows, the stigma of the past fades jcOnline.com (Journal and Courier) Lafayette – West Lafayette, Indiana 2011-05-01 Taya Flores Gerald and Susan Thomas experienced a hurtful racial climate in Greater Lafayette when they dated during the 1970s. A drive-by verbal assault in Lafayette early in their marriage is one Gerald still…

  • Shady’s Back

    Shady’s Back New Matilda Surry Hills NSW, Australia 2011-05-02 Jennifer Mills As Obama is called to prove his place of birth, Indigenous Australians are being asked to account for their origins too. Not black enough, not white enough: Jennifer Mills on public anxiety about biracial identity The release of Obama’s birth certificate by the White…

  • Birtherism’s real anxiety

    Birtherism’s real anxiety The Carletonian Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 2011 Spring Issue 4 (2011-04-29) David Heifetz Can we put this issue to rest now? On Wednesday morning, President Obama surprised a lot of people by suddenly releasing his long-form birth certificate, which, of course, showed that he was born in Hawaii. In explaining why he…

  • Book Review: Multiracial Americans and Social Class: The Influence of Social Class on Racial Identity

    Nonetheless, correctly and jointly, these articles recognize that we live in a society dominated and dictated by white supremacy. To understand multiracial Americans, we must place individuals with this identity within this context. Additionally, this collection does what no other has: It includes in this recognition the role that class can and does play when…

  • Biracial Identity and the College Social Environment: An Examination of the Effect of College Racial Composition on Black-White Biracial Students’ Racial Identity Construction and Maintenance

    Biracial Identity and the College Social Environment: An Examination of the Effect of College Racial Composition on Black-White Biracial Students’ Racial Identity Construction and Maintenance 29th Annual SouthEastern Undergraduate Sociology Symposium 2011 Co-sponsored by Morehouse College and Emory University Departments of Sociology Emory University, February 25-26, 2011 Kristen Clayton Emory University Winner of the first…

  • Whiting Up: Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance

    Whiting Up: Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance University of North Carolina Press December 2011 336 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 15 illus., notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3508-1 Marvin McAllister, Assistant Professor of English University of South Carolina In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head…

  • Controversy: Race and Sexuality on the American Frontier (FRO 100.023)

    Controversy: Race and Sexuality on the American Frontier (FRO 100.023) Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland Angelo Robinson, Associate Professor of English “Am I Black or White? Am I Straight or Gay? CONTROVERSY?”  Since its founding, and long before recording artist Prince penned these lyrics in the 1980s, America has been a space and a place demanding…