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Day: April 16, 2012

  • Race, Religion, and Caste: Anthropological and Sociological Perspectives

    Race, Religion, and Caste: Anthropological and Sociological Perspectives Comparative Sociology Volume 1, Issue 2 (2002) pages 115-126 DOI: 10.1163/156913302100418457 T. K. Oommen, Professsor Emeritus Jawaharlal Nehru University Although race as a biological concept has no validity, racism persists. In spite of the fact that caste is a social construct caste discrimination continues. To understand the…

  • Passing, Performance, and Perversity: Rewriting Bodies in the Works of Lawrence Hill, Shani Mootoo, and Danzy Senna

    Passing, Performance, and Perversity: Rewriting Bodies in the Works of Lawrence Hill, Shani Mootoo, and Danzy Senna 49th Parallel: An interdisciplinary journal of North American studies Issue 26: Autumn 2011 ISSN: 1753-5794 19 pages Natalie Wall University of Calgary This paper examines the function of passing in the works of Lawrence Hill, Shani Mootoo, and…

  • Canada’s famous first black doctor

    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

    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

    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

    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…

  • Biracial in America: Forming and Performing Racial Identity

    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

    “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

    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…