Month: June 2011

  • Asians in S.A. claim multiracial identity San Antonio Express-News 2011-06-26 Elaine Ayala and Kelly Guckian San Antonio’s Asian residents are more likely to self-identify as being of more than one race or ethnicity than their U.S. and Texas counterparts, according to new 2010 Census data. The trend indicates not only intermarriage with whites and Hispanics since…

  • The Color of Citizenship: Race, Modernity and Latin American / Hispanic Political Thought Oxford University Press November 2011 288 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 Hardback ISBN13: 9780199746668; ISBN10: 0199746664 Diego A. von Vacano, Assistant Professor of Political Science Texas A&M University The role of race in politics, citizenship, and the state is one of the most…

  • Cultural Representation in Native America AltaMira Press August 2006 192 pages Cloth 0-7591-0984-2 / 978-0-7591-0984-1 Paper 0-7591-0985-0 / 978-0-7591-0985-8 Edited by: Andrew J. Jolivétte, Associate Professor of American Indian Studies San Francisco State University Today as in the past there are many cultural and commercial representations of American Indians that, thoughtlessly or otherwise, negatively shape…

  • Webinar: Mixed Identity and the Arts Runnymede Trust 2011-07-05, 10:30-12:30Z Runnymede Trust is hosting an online seminar (webinar) discussing mixed identity and the arts. The webinar will take the form of a live-streamed discussion between the photographer and visual artist Mark Sealy, the arts consultant and creative producer Samina Zahir and playwright Roy Williams. Their…

  • A Mixed Race Take On What It Means To Be ‘Free’ Tell Me More National Public Radio 2011-06-24 NPR Staff A lonely young New Yorker finds a puppy while jogging. A middle class couple tries navigating the treacherous waters of admission to a sought-after preschool. A new mother grows jealous of the chic and thin…

  • White women’s complicity and the taboo: Faulkner’s layered critique of the “miscegenation complex” Women’s Studies Volume 22, Issue 4 (1993) pages 497-506 DOI: 10.1080/00497878.1993.9978998 Karen M. Andrews Kobe College, Japan In Faulkner’s social milieu, the proscription against miscegenation between white women and black men was so deeply ingrained as to be “common sense.” White male…

  • Why this Supreme Court could be the best hope for gay-marriage advocates The Washington Post 2011-06-24 Justin Driver, Assistant Professor of Law University of Texas, Austin Eight years ago Sunday, the Supreme Court handed down a significant victory for gay equality when it declared anti-sodomy laws unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas. In response, Justice Antonin…

  • ‘Horror and beauty in rare combination’: The miscegenate fictions of Octavia butler Women: A Cultural Review Volume 7, Issue 1 (1996) pages 28-38 DOI: 10.1080/09574049608578256 Roger Luckhurst, Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature Birkbeck, University of London Octavia Butler’s work is virtually unknown, and yet her ten novels and one short story collection constitute an…

  • Hybridity Theory and Kinship Thinking Cultural Studies Volume 19, Issue 5 (2005) pages 602-621 DOI: 10.1080/09502380500365507 Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester A parallel is posited between the ways hybridity and kinship are thought about in Western contexts, challenging the idea that kinship and biology tend to lead to narrow, roots-oriented, essentialized…

  • Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia. – book reviews Journal of Social History Volume 28, Number 2 (Winter 1994) George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor of History University of Pittsburgh Peter Wade, Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, 432 pages, Paperback…