Month: April 2012

  • Number of biracial babies soars over past decade The Washington Post 2012-04-26 Carol Morello, Demographics Reporter The number of mixed-race babies has soared over the past decade, new census data show, a result of more interracial couples and a cultural shift in how many parents identify their children in a multiracial society. More than 7…

  • Investing in Citizenship: Free Men of Color of Color and the case against Citizens Bank ~ Antebellum Louisiana University of New Orleans December 2011 58 pages Hannah J. Francis A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts…

  • As Racist as We Wish to Be: Project RACE, “The Talk”, Obama and the Fear of Blackness MixedRaceStudies.org 2012-04-10 Steven F. Riley Late last year, I opined about the inability of some activists in the multiracial identity movement to combat racism.  It is difficult to combat racism if you are not anti-racist and quite impossible…

  • Not Quite/ Just the Same/ Different: the Construction of Identity in Vietnamese War Orphans Adopted by White Parents University of Technology, Sydney, Australia 2003 180 pages Indigo Williams Master of Arts by Thesis Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Global diasporas caused by wars carry many streams of people—in the 1970s one of these streams…

  • Dorothy Roberts Debunks Race as Biological in “Fatal Invention” Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies 2012-01-15 Ytasha L. Womack, Contributor Dorothy Roberts is author of the book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century (New Press, 2011). She is also the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Northwestern University…

  • Children of the Vietnam War Smithsonian Magazine June 2009 David Lamb Born overseas to Vietnamese mothers and U.S. servicemen, Amerasians brought hard-won resilience to their lives in America They grew up as the leftovers of an unpopular war, straddling two worlds but belonging to neither. Most never knew their fathers. Many were abandoned by their…

  • Multicultural children’s baseball team founded The Korea Times 2012-04-20 Kim Bo-eun Former baseball player Heo Koo-youn, 61, will found a baseball team for children of interracial families in Korea, Monday. The team will be called Heo Koo-youn Rainbow Little. The initiation ceremony will be held at the National Baseball Center in Goyang, north of Seoul.…

  • Segregation’s Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia University of Virginia Press November 2008 312 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN: 9780813927558 Ebook ISBN: 9780813930343 Gregory Michael Dorr, Visiting Assistant Professor in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought Amherst College Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, Segregation’s Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia examines…

  • Dispensing of Heart Drug Not ‘Black and White’ University of Alabama Research Magazine 2005-10-10 Chris Bryant Think we’ve advanced too far in Civil Rights issues and medical care to resort to making health judgments based on skin color? Don’t be so sure, says Dr. Gregory Dorr, an assistant professor of history at The University of…

  • Professor’s Bookshelf: Amy Cynthia Tang The Wesleyan Argus Middletown, Connecticut 2012-04-19 Miriam Olenick, Staff Writer Assistant Professor Amy Cynthia Tang, of the American Studies and English departments, specializes in Asian-American and African-American literature—most recently, she has been reading satirical Asian-American plays. Professor Tang sat down with The Argus to discuss her favorite authors, her plans…