Month: June 2012

  • Miscegenation and “the Dicta of Race and Class”: The Rhinelander Case and Nella Larsen’s Passing MFS Modern Fiction Studies Volume 36, Number 4, Winter 1990 DOI: 10.1353/mfs.0.1034 pages 523-529 Mark J. Madigan, Professor / Fulbright Program Advisor in English Nazareth College, Rochester, New York The 1986 Rutgers University Press edition of Nella Larsen’s two novels,…

  • SO 3300: ‘Race’and ‘Mixed Race’ Forham University Spring 2010 The origins of ‘race,’its historic role and social construction are examined. Ancient and modern-day ideas are explored. Contrasts between the United States and Latin American concepts of ‘race’ and ‘mixed race’ are analyzed. Future implications are discussed.

  • Browner America: Marcia Alesan Dawkins says an increase in nonwhite births doesn’t mean more social justice.

  • Librarian of Congress Appoints Natasha Trethewey Poet Laureate Library of Congress News from the Library of Congress 2012-06-07 Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today announced the appointment of Natasha Trethewey as the Library’s Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2012-2013. Trethewey, the 19th Poet Laureate, will take up her duties in the fall, opening…

  • Although race is void of biological foundation, it has a profound social reality. All too apparent are disparities in health and welfare. Despite all the evidence indicating that “race” has no biological or evolutionary meaning, the biological-race concept continues to gain strength today in science and society, and it is reinforced by those who design…

  • Selected Poems by Natasha Trethewey The New York Times 2012-06-06 Poems by Natasha Trethewey, the newly named poet laureate. …PASTORAL In the dream, I am with the Fugitive Poets. We’re gathered for a photograph. Behind us, the skyline of Atlanta hidden by the photographer’s backdrop — a lush pasture, green, full of soft-eyed cows lowing,…

  • Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race Stanford University Press April 2012 268 pages 6 tables, 1 figure, 20 photographs Cloth ISBN: 9780804777957 Paper ISBN: 9780804777964 E-book ISBN: 9780804782531 Wendy D. Roth, Associate Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia, Canada In this groundbreaking study of Puerto Rican and Dominican migration to the United…

  • The Origin of the Van Guilders History’s Faces 2012-05-25 Debra Winchell Recently the Associated Press published an article by Travis Loller saying that DNA study seeks the origin of Appalachia’s Melungeons. In a excerpt Mr. Loller wrote: In recent years, it has become a catchall term for people of mixed-race ancestry and has been applied…

  • New Laureate Looks Deep Into Memory The New York Times 2012-06-06 Charles McGrath The Library of Congress is to announce Thursday that the next poet laureate is Natasha Trethewey, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of three collections and a professor of creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta. Ms. Trethewey, 46, was born in Gulfport, Miss.,…

  • Some Anthropological Characteristics of Anglo-Negro Children The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Volume 73, Numbers 1/2 (1943) pages 57-73 K. L. Little, M.A., Ph.D. The Duckworth Laboratory University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge I. Introduction Although fairly large Negro communities have been in existence in Liverpool, Cardiff, London…