Day: March 27, 2012

  • Colonial Peru, the Caste System, and the “Purity” of Blood South Americana: The History and Culture of the World’s Most Exotic Continent 2012-03-20 David Gaughran It was the Spaniards who gave the world the notion that an aristocrat’s blood is not red but blue. The Spanish nobility started taking shape around the ninth century in…

  • The Prophetic Voice and the Face of the Other in Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” Address, March 18, 2008 Rhetoric & Public Affairs Volume 12, Number 2, Summer 2009 pp. 167-194 DOI: 10.1353/rap.0.0101 David A. Frank, Professor of Rhetoric Robert D. Clark Honors College University of Oregon Barack Obama’s address of March 18, 2008,…

  • The Race of a More Perfect Union: James Baldwin, Segregated Memory and the Presidential Race Theory & Event Volume 15, Issue 1 (March 2012) DOI: 10.1353/tae.2012.0010 P.J. Brendese, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science Haverford College The 2008 U.S. presidential race dramatized the connection between America’s segregated memory and its segregated polity. This essay makes…

  • The Obama Effect: Multidisciplinary Renderings of the 2008 Campaign SUNY Press September 2010 300 pages Hardcover ISBN10: 1-4384-3659-9; ISBN13: 978-1-4384-3659-3 eBook SBN10: 1-4384-3661-0; ISBN13: 978-1-4384-3661-6 Edited by: Heather E. Harris, Associate Professor of Business Communication Stevenson University, Stevenson, Maryland Kimberly R. Moffitt, Assistant Professor of American Studies University of Maryland, Baltimore County Catherine R. Squires,…

  • (W)rites of passing: The performance of identity in fiction and personal narratives University of Massachusetts, Amherst February 2006 108 pages Publication Number: AAT 3212756 ISBN: 9780542630743 Tracy L. Vaughn Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY February 2006…

  • So… What are You, Anyway 2012 Conference on Multiracial Identity: Exploring Our Roots Hosted by Harvard Half-Asian People’s Association Harvard University 2012-04-06 through 2012-04-07 Welcome to the fourth annual conference on multiracial identity and politics, hosted by the Harvard College Half-Asian People’s Association on April 6 – April 7, 2012. Join us this year in…

  • Mixed Race Week by SHADES of CSU Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado 2012-04-02 through 2012-04-06 Monday, Apr. 2, marks the beginning of the 4th-annual Mixed Race Week, a series of presentations and activities celebrating the multiracial and interracial community at Colorado State University.   This annaul event is sponsored by Shades of CSU, an…