Day: July 12, 2011

  • Are We Content to Let Our DNA Define Us? Diaspora@chinaSMACK 2011-07-12 Ashton J. Liu A Chinese friend once responded harshly when asked, “Are you Japanese?” by a young child who had approached him on the street. His response struck me as strange. After all, my identity was always a topic of discussion. As a child…

  • Mothering Multiracial Children: Indicators of Effective Interracial Parenting McGill University 1997 123 pages Nicolette De Smit A Thesis Submitted to The School of Social Work Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for The Master’s Degree in Social Work The goal of this descriptive/exploratory study was to examine the behavior…

  • “Suddenly and Shockingly Black”: The Atavistic Child in Turn-into-the-Twentieth-Century American Fiction African American Review Volume 41, Number 1 (Spring, 2007) pages 51-66 J. Michael Duvall, Associate Professor of English College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina Julie Cary Nerad, Associate Professor of English Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland From at least the Civil War through the…

  • Mediating Blackness: Afro Puerto Rican Women and Popular Culture University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2011-06-14 145 pages Maritza Quiñones-Rivera A Dissertation Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Communications in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign In my dissertation I discuss how blackness, femaleness…