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Month: May 2011

  • Man with a Cross: Hawkeye Was a “Half-Breed”

    Man with a Cross: Hawkeye Was a “Half-Breed” Cooper Panel American Literature Association Conference San Diego, California May 1998 James Fenimore Cooper Society Barbara Mann, Lecturer of English University of Toledo Originally published in James Fenimore Cooper Society Miscellaneous Papers No. 10, August 1998 Natty Bumppo—Hawkeye of James Fenimore Cooper’s five Leather-Stocking Tales—is indelibly inscribed…

  • From the “half-breed” to the “tragic mulatto”: The race integration film in the fifties and the struggle for social equality

    From the “half-breed” to the “tragic mulatto”: The race integration film in the fifties and the struggle for social equality New York University May 2007 435 pages Publication Number: AAT 3269779 ISBN: 9780549099536 Ryan Daniel DeRosa, Assistant Professor of Film Studies Ohio University A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree…

  • Between Race and Nation: The Plains Metis and the Canada-United States Border

    Between Race and Nation: The Plains Metis and the Canada-United States Border University of Wisconsin, Madison May 2009 419 pages Publication Number: AAT 3384469 ISBN: 9781109476347 Michel Hogue, Assistant Professor of History Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the…

  • Negroes: Miscegenation

    Negroes: Miscegenation Time Magazine 1923-07-23 Protests of Negro organizations from many parts of the country, descending about the ears of a Senator, caused him to change his mind. Senator [Arthur] Capper of Kansas is leader of the farm bloc and of the “marriage bloc”—if such a thing there is. In the last Congress he brought…

  • Are we all ‘coloured’?

    Are we all ‘coloured’? News 24 (South Africa) 2011-03-09 Max Du Preez We really need to find new terminology for the different population groups in South Africa, especially now that we’re moving back into a political culture of obsession with race. Problem One: if “coloured” means people of mixed blood, then the vast majority of…

  • Birthers’ shameful racist roots

    Birthers’ shameful racist roots The Boston Globe 2011-05-02 James Carroll It was not up to President Obama to label the birther movement as racist in his extraordinary address on the subject last week, but plenty of commentary has done it for him. There can be no doubt that the lurid contempt shown to the president…

  • Breaking the Black-White Binary

    Breaking the Black-White Binary Fathom: the source for online learning Columbia University 2002 Gary Okihiro, Professor of International and Public Affairs Columbia University Where do Asians fall in the American construct of race? According to Gary Okihiro, the director of Columbia University’s Center for Race and Ethnicity, the position of Asians has had to be…

  • Five Myths About Multiracial People in the U.S.

    Five Myths About Multiracial People in the U.S. About.com: Race Relations 2011-04-09 Nadra Kareem Nittle When Barack Obama set his sights on the presidency, newspapers suddenly began devoting a lot more ink to the multiracial identity. Media outlets from Time Magazine and the New York Times to the British-based Guardian and BBC News pondered the…

  • Responsible Mixed Race Politics

    Responsible Mixed Race Politics How do identities matter? Stanford University 2005-01-13 Presentation by: Ronald Sundstrom, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of San Francisco The harshest critics of mixed-race have claimed that the identity is self-indulgent and irresponsible, because it evades or, worse, is complicit in racism. Such strident condemnations of mixed-race identity are…

  • Linda Martín-Alcoff: Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self [Review]

    Linda Martín-Alcoff: Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self [Review] Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006-06-22 Linda Martín-Alcoff, Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self, Oxford University Press, 2006, 326pp., ISBN 0195137353. Ronald Sundstrom, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of San Francisco Linda Martín Alcoff’s book, Visible Identities, offers a conception of social identities…