Month: April 2012

  • Canada’s famous first black doctor National Review of Medicine Montreal, Quebec, Canada Volume 1, Number 4 (2004-02-28) Marvin Ross Born in Toronto in 1837, Dr Anderson Abbott was a close friend of Abe Lincoln but refused to serve in the US Colored Troops Not only was Anderson Ruffin Abbott the first black man to graduate…

  • Afro-Mexican: A Short Study on Identity University of Kansas April 2009 63 pages Ariane Rose Tulloch Submitted to the graduate degree program in Anthropology and the Graduate Faculty of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master’s of Arts. Up until the early 19th century, blacks outnumbered white…

  • Identity of Biracial College Students San Jose State University May 1999 77 pages MyTra Fitzpatrick A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the Department of Child Development San Jose State University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts This thesis examined the identity of biracial college students and the relationship…

  • The Language Trap: U.S. Passing Fiction and its Paradox University of Kansas 2009 181 pages Masami Sugimori, Instructor of English University of South Alabama Submitted to the graduate degree program in English and the Graduate Faculty of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Through…

  • Taking a social psychological approach, this book identifies influencing factors and several underlying processes shaping racial identity. Unlike previous studies which examine racial identity as if it was a one-dimensional concept, this book examines two dimensions of identity—a public dimension (how they identify themselves to others) and an internalized dimension (how they see themselves internally)—noting…

  • “If You’re Half Black, You’re Just Black”: Reflected Appraisals and the Persistence of the One-Drop Rule Sociological Quarterly Volume 51 Issue 1 (Winter 2010) Pages 96 – 121 Published Online: 2010-01-15 DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2009.01162.x Nikki Khanna, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Vermont Despite growing interest in multiracial identity, much of the research remains atheoretical and…

  • Narrative Order, Racial Hierarchy, and “White” Discourse in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Along This Way MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 36, Number 3, Fall 2011 page 37-62 DOI: 10.1353/mel.2011.0041 Masami Sugimori, Instructor of English University of South Alabama African Americans became increasingly mobile during the early twentieth…

  • Black & White: Search for roots uncovers forgotten family secret National Post Toronto, Canada 2012-02-17 Sarah Boesveld, General Assignment Writer About 20 years ago, David Dossett watched his grandfather politely shut down a woman who called to say she was a relative and that their family had come to Canada from Jamaica and that they…

  • The Ordinary Conception of Race in the United States and Its Relation to Racial Attitudes: A New Approach Journal of Cognition and Culture Volume 9, Issue 1 (2009) pages 15-38 DOI: 10.1163/156853709X414610 Joshua Glasgow, Lecturer of Philosophy Sonoma State University also Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington. Julie L. Shulman, Assistant Professor…

  • Science of desire: Race and representations of the Haitian revolution in the Atlantic world, 1790-1865 University of Notre Dame July 2008 489 pages Publication Number: AAT 3436234 ISBN: 9781124353197 Marlene Leydy Daut, Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of…