Month: July 2011

  • Crossing Over: Racial Passing and Racial Uplift in Nella Larsen’s Fiction University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee 2009 34 pages Karly D. Beavers Senior Honors Thesis in American Studies Fundamental to the American myth is a juxtaposition of the “civilized” or “superior” majority with the “inferior” other. By classifying African Americans as inherently different from…

  • Race and Making America in Brazil: How Brazilian Return Migrants Negotiate Race in the US and Brazil University of Michigan 2011 314 pages Tiffany Denise Joseph Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Sociology) in The University of Michigan This dissertation explores how US immigration influenced the…

  • FBI investigating racist threat in Polk County Chattanooga Times Free Press Chattanooga, Tennessee Sunday, 2011-06-26 Beth Burger Ducktown, Tenn.—More than a week after part of a cinderblock was thrown through a trailer window with a threatening racist message attached, an interracial Polk County couple continue to have sleepless nights. “I just want to get out…

  • Fifteenth Union: A Melungeon Gathering Melungeon Heritage Association Carolina Connections: Roots and Branches of Mixed Ancestry Communities Warren Wilson College Swannanoa, North Carolina 2011-07-14 through 2011-07-16 MHA is delighted to announce that this year our annual Union will be celebrated at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC, July 14-16, 2011. This will be our first…

  • Best-selling author Lisa Alther chronicles her search for missing branches of her family tree in this dazzling, hilarious memoir.

  • Daniel Sharfstein awarded Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship by Fletcher Foundation Vanderbilt University Law School 2011-07-06 Daniel J. Sharfstein, associate professor of law, has been awarded an Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship by the Fletcher Foundation.   Professor Sharfstein’s new book, The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White, examines the…

  • Appiah’s Uncompleted Argument: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Reality of Race Social Theory and Practice Volume 26, Number 1 (Spring 2000) pages 103-128 Paul C. Taylor, Associate Professor of Philosophy Pennsylvania State University For people concerned by philosophy’s reputation for ivory-tower isolation, K. Anthony Appiah’s work on race is one of the more encouraging developments…

  • The Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Illusion of Race Critical Inquiry Volume 12, Number 1, “Race,” Writing, and Difference (Autumn, 1985) pages 21-37 Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy Princeton University Introduction Contemporary biologists are not agreed on the question of whether there are any human races, despite the widespread…

  • Call for Robson Square Art Installation: Hapapalooza Festival Hapa-Palooza Festival seeks outdoor art installation proposal to show-case work by individual artist and/or groups of mixed cultural descent whose artistic work explores mixed roots/cultural heritage/hybridity/identity. Submission Deadline: 2011-07-15 Contact: Ella Cooper – ella@ecoartslab.com Hapa-Palooza: A Vancouver Celebration of Mixed-Roots Arts and Ideas is a new cultural…

  • Do You See Your Family?: An Examination of Racially Mixed Characters & Families in Children’s Picture Books Available in School Media Centers University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2002 37 pages Susan S. Lovett A Master’s paper submitted to the faculty of the School of Information and Library Science of the University of North Carolina…