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Month: July 2012

  • Becoming black, becoming president

    Becoming black, becoming president Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 1-2, 2011 pages 62-85 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.2011.563145 Richard H. King, Professor Emeritus of American and Canadian Studies University of Nottingham Speculation about the relationship between Barack Obama’s election to the presidency and race in the United States was rife prior to, during and after his successful…

  • Betwixt And Between: Studying Multiracial Identity

    In 1989, Reginald Daniel began teaching a university course on multiracial identity called Betwixt and Between. It remains the longest-running college course addressing the multiracial experience. For his continuing studies and research on multiraciality, Daniel received the Loving Prize.

  • Embodying Belonging: Racializing Okinawan Diaspora in Bolivia and Japan

    Embodying Belonging: Racializing Okinawan Diaspora in Bolivia and Japan University Of Hawai‘i Press May 2010 272 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8248-3344-2 Taku Suzuki, Assistant Professor of International Studies Denison University, Granville, Ohio Embodying Belonging is the first full-length study of a Okinawan diasporic community in South America and Japan. Under extraordinary conditions throughout the twentieth century (Imperial…

  • Olympic Swimmer Neal Built Her Dream in Brooklyn

    Olympic Swimmer Neal Built Her Dream in Brooklyn The New York Times 2012-07-15 William C. Rhoden, Sports Columnist Lia Neal (Al Bello/Getty Images) Rome and Siu Neal with their grandson Rome Jin, their son Rome Kyn and his wife Ziggy (Victor J. Blue for The New York Times) Rome Neal walked up to the microphone…

  • Black-Yellow Fences: Multicultural Boundaries and Whiteness in the Rush Hour Franchise

    Black-Yellow Fences: Multicultural Boundaries and Whiteness in the Rush Hour Franchise Critical Studies in Media Communication Published Online: 2012-07-06 DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2012.697634 David C. Oh, Visiting Professor of Communications Villanova University The Rush Hour films disrupt the interracial buddy cop formula largely by erasing whites from the films. Despite the unconventional casting, the franchise has achieved…

  • HIST 1133-Mongrel America: Miscegenation, Passing, and the Myth of Racial Purity

    HIST 1133-Mongrel America: Miscegenation, Passing, and the Myth of Racial Purity Cornell University Fall 2012 Racial divisions have served as potent tools for consolidating power, upholding unjust practices, and shaping the American historical imagination. Whether in the form of slavery, segregation, extralegal violence, or the one-drop rule, the insistence on preserving racial distinctions reflects a…

  • Two Classes, Divided by ‘I Do’

    Two Classes, Divided by ‘I Do’ The New York Times 2012-07-15 Jason Deparle          Also see the video, “Single and Unequal” by Shayla Harris here. ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Jessica Schairer has so much in common with her boss, Chris Faulkner, that a visitor to the day care center they run might get them confused.…

  • Destiny’s Child: Obama and Election ’08

    Destiny’s Child: Obama and Election ’08 boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture Volume 39, Number 2 (Summer 2012) pages 3-32 DOI: 10.1215/01903659-1597871 Hortense Spillers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English Vanderbilt University “Destiny’s Child: Obama and Election ’08” interrogates the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States as…

  • The Miracle and the Defects [Chapter]

    The Miracle and the Defects [Chapter] Chapter in: The Constantinos Kararnanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook 2009 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00621-0 pages 73-77 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00621-0_11 Edited by: Constantine Arvanitopoulos, Professor of European and International Studies Panteion University, Athens, Greece Konstantina E. Botsiou, Associate Professor of Political Science University of Peloponnisos, Korinthos, Greece Chapter Author: George Th. Mavrogordatos, Professor…

  • Fostering Mixed-Race Children in Ukraine: ‘Family Portrait in Black and White’

    Fostering Mixed-Race Children in Ukraine: ‘Family Portrait in Black and White’ The New York Times 2012-07-13 Neil Genzlinger, Television Critic Olga Nenya and her foster and adopted children in 2008, in front of their house in Ukraine, as seen in the documentary directed by Julia Ivanova. First Pond Entertainment “Family Portrait in Black and White,”…