Month: August 2011

  • I think that what people were angry about was that he [President Obama] was not willing to be a symbol for multiracial people. But that’s not his job, in my opinion. His job is to be President of the United States. And that includes all of us, mixed, not mixed or whatever.  And so, really,…

  • Making the invisible visible: Experiences of multiracial late adolescents/young adults with three or more racial backgrounds The Wright Institute May 2011 182 pages Publication Number: AAT 3459694 ISBN: 9781124715537 Frandelia Sharmila Moore A dissertation submitted to the Wright Institute School of Psychology, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Psychology Research…

  • 20 years after riots, Crown Heights is now a mixed racial haven New York Daily News 2011-08-14 Simone Weichselbaum, Staff Writer Crown Heights has become a mixed race mecca. The Brooklyn neighborhood infamous for the 1991 riot between blacks and Jews has the second-most residents who identify as being both black and white, the latest…

  • Scouting the City for Her Characters The New York Times 2011-08-19 John Leland A Summer afternoon in Chelsea, and Sarah Jones was on a recon mission, searching for… she did not know what, exactly. An accent, for starters. An ethnic wild card. “Hybridity,” she said, using a word she uses often to describe her field…

  • The Place of Miscegenation Laws within Historical Scholarship about Slavery The Literary Lawyer: A Forum for the Legal and Literary Communities 2011-05-17 Allen Porter Mendenhall The following post appeared at The Literary Table. Miscegenation laws, also known as anti-miscegenation laws, increasingly have attracted the attention of scholars of slavery over the last half-century. Scholarship on…

  • Blood relations: The cultural work of miscegenation in nineteenth-century American literature University of Pennsylvania 1999, 282 pages Publication Number: AAT 9937719 ISBN: 9780599389762 Leigh Holladay Edwards, Associate Professor of English Florida State University A DISSERTATION in English Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree…

  • Somebody Always Singing You University Press of Mississippi 1997 160 pages ISBN: 0878059814 (9780878059812) Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees The story of a multi-racial woman coming to understand her identity As the child of African-American and Native American parents, Kaylynn TwoTrees grew up hearing herself called “half breed” and “mixed blood,” terms which now, after many transforming…

  • Barack Obama’s presidential victory naturally led people to believe that the United States might finally be moving into a post-racial era. “Obama’s Race”—and its eye-opening account of the role played by race in the election—paints a dramatically different picture.

  • ‘The suffering black male body and the threatened white female body’: ambiguous bodies in Candyman The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies Issue 9, February 2011 Lucy Fife Donaldson University of Reading Race is not a subject often directly encountered in the horror film, despite the highly charged conflict of black and white constituting…

  • Somewhere between Jim Crow & Post-Racialism: Reflections on the Racial Divide in America Today Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Volume 140, Number 2, Spring 2011, Race, Inequality & Culture, Volume 2 pages 11-36 Lawrence D. Bobo, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences Harvard University In…