Day: June 27, 2011

  • 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…