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Month: March 2012

  • Using the Mixed-Race Category to Expose the Persistence of Anti-Black Racism: A Response to Thomas Chatterton Williams

    Using the Mixed-Race Category to Expose the Persistence of Anti-Black Racism: A Response to Thomas Chatterton Williams 2012-03-17 Mark S. James, Fulbright Scholar Horlivka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages This article [Thomas Chatterton Williams, “As Black as We Wish to Be,” New York Times (March 16, 2012)] stipulates that people of mixed-race parentage do…

  • Fashioning and Refashioning Marie Laveau in American Memory and Imagination

    Fashioning and Refashioning Marie Laveau in American Memory and Imagination Florida State University 2009 201 pages Tatia Jacobson Jordan A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Fashioning and Refashioning Marie Laveau in American Memory and Imagination follows the life and literary…

  • Identity Politics and the New Genetics: Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging

    Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in the discussion of human identity. Of particular importance is the preoccupation with origins and personal discovery and the…

  • That this has been a racially mixed country from the very beginning…

    …And I think with racial issues in the country, historical memory has really played to serve the ends of White Privilege, essentially. And it has done so in any number of ways. The most basic to start with, is simply we have as a nation erased essentially from any of our larger memory the racial…

  • An Irish Tradition With an Only-in-America Star

    An Irish Tradition With an Only-in-America Star The New York Times 2012-03-17 Sabrina Tavernise GREENVILLE, Ohio — For those feeling down about the United States and its place in the world, meet Drew Lovejoy, a 17-year-old from rural Ohio. His background could not be more American. His father is black and Baptist from Georgia and…

  • St. Patrick’s Day holds mixed emotions for some

    St. Patrick’s Day holds mixed emotions for some The Boston Globe 2012-03-17 Martine Powers, Globe Staff Ryan McCollum knows that on St. Patrick’s Day, he cuts an unusual figure. All in green, a traditional Irish Claddagh ring on his finger and a houndstooth flat cap on his head, everything about his attire screams “Irish and…

  • Racing “mixed race” in the 21st century

    Racing “mixed race” in the 21st century Gender News The Clayman Institute for Gender Research Stanford University 2012-03-16 Krystale E. Littlejohn Mixed race and social negotiation What are you?  For many people, this question elicits a variety of responses: student, sister, brother, dancer, mother, sports enthusiast.  For ethnically ambiguous people, however, the question usually refers…

  • As Black as We Wish to Be

    As Black as We Wish to Be The New York Times 2012-03-16 Thomas Chatterton Williams My first encounter with my own blackness occurred in the checkout line at the grocery store. I was horsing around with my older brother, as bored children sometimes do. My blond-haired, blue-eyed mother, exasperated and trying hard to count out…

  • James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the Passing Novel

    James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the Passing Novel American Literature Volume 84, Number 1 (March 2012) pages 1-29 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-1540932 Geoffrey Sanborn, Associate Professor of Literature Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Sanborn’s essay seeks to demonstrate that The Headsman, an overlooked 1833 novel by James Fenimore Cooper, is an allegory of racial passing. After…

  • This is Not a Biography: Pauline Johnson and the Process of National Identity

    This is Not a Biography: Pauline Johnson and the Process of National Identity Canadian Poetry Volume 48 (Spring/Summer 2001) Shelley Hulan, Associate Professor of English University of Waterloo, Canada Carole Gerson and Veronica Strong-Boag. Paddling Her Own Canoe: the Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson–Tekahionwake. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2000. 331 pp. Anyone…