Day: March 12, 2012

  • Multiracial Identity [Film Review by Patricia B. McGee] Educational Media Reviews Online 2011-07-19 Patricia B. McGee, Coordinator of Media Services Volpe Library & Media Center Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee Multiracial Identity 2010 Distributed by Bullfrog Films, PO Box 149, Oley, PA 19547; 800-543-FROG (3764) Produced and Directed by Brian Chinhema DVD, color, 77 min.…

  • Birth in the Briar Patch: Charles W. Chesnutt and the Problem of Racial Identity The Southern Literary Journal Volume 41, Number 2, Spring 2009 pages 1-20 DOI: 10.1353/slj.0.0040 Daniel Worden, Assistant Professor of English University of Colorado, Colorado Springs In his speech “The Courts and the Negro,” written around 1908, Charles W. Chesnutt faults the…

  • Multiraciality Is As Old As This Country: Gender, Sexuality & Race Mixing with Professor Renee Romano Blogtalk Radio 2012-02-10 Michelle McCrary, Host Is That Your Child? Renee Romano, Associate Professor of History Oberlin College Last Friday ITYC had an enlightening conversation with Professor Renee Romano from Oberlin College about the ways in which our country’s…

  • Barack Obama is a White Man The Language Guy 2008-06-09 Michael Geis, Professor Emeritus in Linguistics Ohio State University I don’t get it. Obama is seen as a Black man. Why not see him as a White man. He is, if I understand his parentage, 50% White and 50% Black. Moreover, he went to Harvard.…

  • Catholic records of slave baptisms in colonial New Orleans go online New Orleans Times-Picayune 2011-02-01 Bruce Nolan, Beat Reporter On Sunday, the 6th of May, 1798, an enslaved New Orleans woman named only Manon, owned by Mr. LeBlanc, presented her 2-year-old child, Antoine Joseph, at St. Louis Cathedral on the Plaza de Armas to be…

  • Treating a medical mosaic, doctors develop a new appreciation for the role of ethnicity in disease The Globe and Mail Toronto, Canada 2012-02-15 Dakshana Bascaramurty, Reporter Baby X is born in a Canadian hospital and her tiny, wrinkled body is placed on a scale that reads 3,061 grams, or 6 pounds and 12 ounces. Things…

  • Not Tainted by the Past: Re-conceptualization and Politics of Coloured Identities among University Coloured Student Activists in Post-Apartheid South Africa Achieving Sustainable Development in Africa International Conference at the University of Pittsburgh 2012-03-29 through 2012-03-30 Sardana Nikolaeva School of Education University of Pittsburgh The colonial apartheid South Africa, its hierarchical racial classification and its consequences…

  • Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey 2012 Annual Convention: Call for Papers Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey 2012-01-31 Building on the success of the inaugural 2011 conference, the second annual convention of the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey (BGCSNJ) will be held at Barnard College in New York City on…

  • Crossing Lines: Praxis in Mixed Race/Space Studies University of California, Berkeley Friday, 2012-03-16 through Saturday, 2012-03-17 Co-Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender and Ethnic Studies Department. In traditional Ethnic Studies, mixed race scholarship has often been marginalized, misappropriated, tokenized or simply left out. In order to allow for a collaborative environment…