Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

recent posts

about

Month: October 2011

  • Liminal blankness: Mixing Race and Space in Monochrome’s Psychic Surface

    Liminal blankness: Mixing Race and Space in Monochrome’s Psychic Surface University of Plymouth, Devon, England 2002 320 pages Angeline Dawn Morrison A thesis submitted to the University of Plymouth In partial fulfilment for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Research Department Falmouth College of Arts Blank space in western Art History and visual culture is…

  • History and the (Un)making of Identifications in Literary Representations of Anglo-Indians and Goan Catholics

    History and the (Un)making of Identifications in Literary Representations of Anglo-Indians and Goan Catholics University of British Columbia September 2000 465 pages Marian Josephine Gracias A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Department of English) This dissertation examines selected literature…

  • Passed Over: The Tragic Mulatta and (Dis)Integration of Identity in Adrienne Kennedy’s Plays

    Passed Over: The Tragic Mulatta and (Dis)Integration of Identity in Adrienne Kennedy’s Plays African American Review Volume 35, Number 2 (Summer, 2001) pages 281-295 DOI: 10.2307/2903258 E. Barnsley Brown Much recent interest in the drama of Adrienne Kennedy has been spawned by the publication of her innovative autobiography People Who Led to My Plays (1987),…

  • Mixed Britannia: Part 3 of 3 (1965-2011)

    Mixed Britannia: Part 3 of 3 (1965-2011) BBC Two 2011-10-20 George Alagiah, Host Below is the last episode as four 15-minute videos.

  • Obama’s Racial Identity Is His Call

    Obama’s Racial Identity Is His Call Poynter. 2008-12-16 Tom Huang, Sunday & Enterprise Editor The Dallas Morning News Also Ethics and Diversity Fellow at The Poynter Institute Not long ago, I sat on a journalism panel in which the question of “What are you?” came up… …I thought about the “What are you?” question when…

  • Barack Obama in Hawai’i and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President

    Barack Obama in Hawai’i and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President ABC-CLIO Praeger September 2011 276 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-313-38533-9 Electronic ISBN: 978-0-313-38534-6 Dinesh Sharma, Senior Fellow Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Research St. Francis College, New York Distinguishing itself from the mass of political biographies of Barack Obama,…

  • To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance

    To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance University Press of Mississippi 1999 202 pages Cloth: 157806130X (9781578061303) Paper: 1578061318 (9781578061310) Jon Woodson, Professor of English Howard University, Washington, D.C. Jean Toomer’s adamant stance against racism and his call for a raceless society were far more complex than the average reader of…

  • Desdemona’s Fire – Review

    Desdemona’s Fire – Review African American Review Volume 35, Number 2 (Summer 2001) pages 342-343 Lesley Wheeler, Henry S. Fox Professor of English Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia Ruth Ellen Kocher. Desdemona’s Fire. Detroit: Lotus P, 1999. 62 pp. This shapely first collection, 1999 winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, rises with…

  • Sun uses it’s Arsenal to divide us

    Sun uses it’s Arsenal to divide us Lester Holloway 2011-08-17 Lester Holloway, Liberal Democrat Councillor, Journalist & Equality Campaigner London Borough of Sutton Top footballers are good at what they do but the Government does not turn to Ashley Cole or John Terry for economic advice. By the same token, their views on race shouldn’t…

  • Bynum: The Long Shadow of the Civil War (2010)

    Bynum: The Long Shadow of the Civil War (2010) The Civil War Monitor: A New Look at America’s Greatest Conflict 2011-10-19 Laura Hepp Bradshaw Carnegie Mellon University The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies by Victoria E. Bynum. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0807833819. “Few…