Month: July 2011

  • White Skin, White Masks: The Creole Woman and the Narrative of Racial Passing in Martinique and Louisiana University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2006 83 pages Michael James Rulon A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master…

  • The Cross-Heart People: Race and Inheritance in the Silent Western Journal of Popular Film and Television Volume 30, Number 4 (Winter 2003) pages 181-196 DOI: 10.1080/01956050309602855 Joanna Hearne, Assistant Professor of English University of Missouri The author examines the visualization of Indianness in the context of cross-racial romance and in relation to the emergence of…

  • This lame and utterly boring series has yet to even reach the already low, low bar set in the mid-1990s regarding this topic by Time and Newsweek. Beyond the drippingly bathetic nature of the reporting throughout the series, there is never more than a sentence or two given over to the fact that there is…

  • More than a ‘tragic mulatto’ Runnymede Bulletin Spring 2011, Issue 365 pages 26 Zaki Nahaboo Department of Politics & International Studies The Open University, UK Daniel R. McNeil. Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic: Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs. London: Routledge, 2009, 186 pp. Hardback ISBN 978-0-415-87226-3, Paperback ISBN 978-0-415-89391-6, eBook ISBN 978-0-203-85736-6. Daniel…

  • Seeing in color – art and mixed race Laura Kina’s Art Blog 2011-07-06 Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University I was reviewing an Asian American marketing book (Many Cultures One Market by Robert Kumaki and Jack Moran) and getting my toenails painted dark fuchsia pink, just…

  • Pushing Boundaries, Mixed-Race Artists Gain Notice The New York Times 2011-07-05 Felicia R. Lee Heidi Durrow, left, and Fanshen Cox, the co-producers of the Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival. (Ann Johansson for The New York Times) Note from Steven F. Riley: Please make sure to view the many reader comments for the article here.…

  • Puerto Rico: Afro-Caribbean and Taíno Identity Repeating Islands: News and commentary on Caribbean culture, literature, and the arts 2011-06-26 Ivette Romero-Cesareo, Professor of Spanish and Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York Note from Steven F. Riley:  [The number of 2010 census repondents from Puerto Rico identifiying as two or more races…

  • But there was something different about this tribe, the Tlaxcala, and when the music ceased and the chatter resumed, the difference became clear: They spoke exclusively Spanish.

  • Virginia’s Attempt to Adjust the Color Problem The American Journal of Public Health Volume 15, Number 2 (1925) pages 111-115 W. A. Plecker, M.D., Fellow A.P.H.A. State Registrar of Vital Statistics, Richmond, Virginia Read at the joint session of the Public Health Administration and Vital Statistics Sections of the American Public Health Association at the…

  • D’Eichthal and Urbain’s Lettres sur la race noire et la race blanche: Race, Gender, and Reconciliation after Slave Emancipation Nineteenth-Century French Studies Volume 39, Numbers 3 & 4 (Spring-Summer 2011) pages 240-258 E-ISSN: 1536-0172 Print ISSN: 0146-7891 Naomi J. Andrews, Assistant Professor of History Santa Clara University This article is a close reading of Gustave…