Month: April 2012

  • Multi-ethnic Koreans find help with assimilation through MACK Foundation The Korea Times 2012-04-25 A “typical Korean” probably wouldn’t call Yang Chan-wook a typical Korean, but he wants to be seen that way. The 37-year-old is a multi-ethnic Korean, part Korean from his mother’s side and part African-American from his father’s side. And he’s working towards…

  • Crimes of Passion: The Regulation of Interracial Sex in Washington, 1855-1950 Gonzaga Law Review Volume 47, Issue 2 (Symposium: Race and Criminal Justice in the West) April, 2012 pages 393-428 Jason A. Gillmer, Professor of Law Gonzaga University School of Law Race had not mattered to Harvey Creasman and Caroline Paul. The two had lived together as…

  • 2010 Census Shows Interracial and Interethnic Married Couples Grew by 28 Percent over Decade United States Census Bureau Newsroom 2012-04-25 The U.S. Census Bureau today released a 2010 Census brief, Households and Families: 2010, that showed interracial or interethnic opposite-sex married couple households grew by 28 percent over the decade from 7 percent in 2000…

  • Nicole Myoshi Rabin to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (Founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: Nicole Myoshi Rabin When: Wednesday, 2012-04-25, 21:00Z (17:00 EDT, 14:00 PDT) Nicole Myoshi Rabin, Instructor of…

  • “Nearly White” and Clinging to “Bits of Finery”: Jim Crow Logic, Brazil, and Evelyn Scott’s Escapade Women’s Studies: An inter-disciplinary journal Volume 41, Issue 4, 2012 Special Issue: Women and Travel DOI: 10.1080/00497878.2012.663249 Amy Schmidt, Supervisor of Supplemental Instruction Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas Evelyn Scott’s Escapade (1923) illustrates both the similarities and the differences between…

  • “The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality” explores conceptualizations of regional identity and a distinct population group known as nordestinos in northeastern Brazil during a crucial historical period.

  • The Social Construction of Race and Monacan Education in Amherst County, Virginia, 1908–1965: Monacan Perspectives History of Education Quarterly Volume 47, Issue 4 (November 2007) pages 389–415 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-5959.2007.00107.x Melanie D. Haimes-Bartolf Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia That’s all you heard, everywhere we went, or whatever we done, “oh, he’s one of those issues.” We…

  • Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego Rutgers University Press June 2012 256 pages Hardcover ISBN-13: 9780813552835, ISBN: 0813552834 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780813552842, ISBN: 0813552842 Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., Associate Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Arizona State University, Tempe Becoming Mexipino is a social-historical…

  • We the “White”” People: Race, Culture, and the Virginia Constitution of 1902 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University September 2003 92 pages Jeremy Boggs In 1902. in an effort to reestablish what they saw as whites’ natural right to control government rule over blacks, the delegates to Virginia’s Constitutional Convention of 1901-1902 declared the new…

  • Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White Simon & Schuster January 1995 272 pages ISBN-10: 0671899333 ISBN-13: 9780671899332 Shirlee Haizlip The Sweeter the Juice is a provocative memoir that goes to the heart of our American identity. Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, in an effort to reconcile the dissonance between her black persona and…