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Month: May 2012

  • Glow, A Novel

    Glow, A Novel Viking (an imprint of Penguin Press) 2012-03-15 336 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780670023318 ePub eBook ISBN: 9781101560976 eBook Adobe Reader ISBN: 9781101557563 Jessica Maria Tuccelli In the autumn of 1941, Amelia J. McGee, a young woman of Cherokee and Scotch-Irish descent, and an outspoken pamphleteer for the NAACP, hastily sends her daughter, Ella,…

  • The future of whiteness

    The future of whiteness Salon 2012-05-29 Michael Lind Both Republican and Democratic racial politics are doomed. How culture shifts will reshape American ideas on race The Census Bureau has announced that a majority of new-born infants in the U.S. now belong to categories other than what the U.S. federal government calls “non-Hispanic white.”   While…

  • Neither Fish, Flesh, nor Fowl: Race and Region in the Writings of Charles W. Chesnutt

    Neither Fish, Flesh, nor Fowl: Race and Region in the Writings of Charles W. Chesnutt African American Review Volume 34, Number 3 (Autumn, 2000) pages 461-473 Anne Fleischmann The Supreme Court’s decision in The 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case is notorious for having sewn racial segregation into the fabric of American society. One of the…

  • The Emotional Tug of Obama

    In a story that quickly went viral, The Times’s Jackie Calmes wrote last week about the photograph, which was taken three years ago when the boy, then 5, visited the White House. It has hung there ever since, left on the wall even as other pictures were swapped out, as is the custom, for newer,…

  • EPSY 203: Exploring Biracial/multiracial Identity Course Description

    EPSY 203: Exploring Biracial/multiracial Identity Course Description University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Part of the EPSY 203: Social Issues Group Dialogue Courses) EPSY 203 provides students with opportunities to converse on diversity and social justice topic areas. Each section uses a structured dialogue format to explore intergroup and intragroup differences and similarities within historical and contemporary…

  • Obama, Zombies, and Black Male Messiahs

    Obama, Zombies, and Black Male Messiahs In Media Res 2009-10-01 Elizabeth McAlister, Associate Professor of Religion, African American Studies and American Studies Wesleyan University Insofar as they occupy the symbolic place of messiah in these zombie apocalypses, it interesting that from Ben in Night, to Peter in Dawn, and John in Day, to Robert Neville…

  • Framing a Deterritorialized, Hybrid Alternative to Nationalist Essentialism in the Postcolonial Era: Tjalie Robinson and the Diasporic Eurasian “Indo” Community

    Framing a Deterritorialized, Hybrid Alternative to Nationalist Essentialism in the Postcolonial Era: Tjalie Robinson and the Diasporic Eurasian “Indo” Community Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies Volume 16, Numbers 1/2, (Spring/Fall 2007) pages 1-28 DOI: 10.1353/dsp.2007.0002 Jeroen Dewulf, Queen Beatrix Professor in Dutch Studies University of California, Berkeley In her study of Transnational South Asians…

  • Loving vs. Virginia in a Post-Racial World: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Marriage

    In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional in Loving vs. Virginia. Although this case promotes marital freedom and racial equality, there are still significant legal and social barriers to the free formation of intimate relationships.

  • Slaves, Cannibals, and Infected Hyper-Whites: The Race and Religion of Zombies

    Slaves, Cannibals, and Infected Hyper-Whites: The Race and Religion of Zombies Anthropological Quarterly Volume 85, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 457-486 DOI: 10.1353/anq.2012.0021 Elizabeth McAlister, Associate Professor of Religion, African American Studies and American Studies Wesleyan University The first decade of the new millennium saw renewed interest in popular culture featuring zombies. This essay shows…

  • Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory

    Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory Left Coast Press March 2007 276 pages 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 978-1-59874-278-7 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-59874-279-4 eBook ISBN: 978-1-61132-467-9 eBook Rental (180 Days) ISBN: 978-1-61132-467-9 Edited by Charles Stewart Department of Anthropology University College London Social scientists have used the term “Creolization” to evoke cultural fusion and the emergence of new…