Month: July 2012

  • Mixed Blessing The New York Times 2008-06-18 Francis Wilkinson, Executive Editor The Week Being from an interracial marriage has shaped Obama’s political stance. Far from the storied hollows of Appalachia, and well before the Rev. Jeremiah Wright lit up the cable news channels or the “elitist” label was fixed to Barack Obama’s lapel right where…

  • Double Native: A moving memoir about living across two cultures University of Queensland Press 2012-01-03 304 pages ISBN: 978 0 7022 3917 5 Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung Growing up ‘on country’ on the west coast of Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula in the 1970s and ’80s, Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung had an idyllic traditional life. At the age…

  • Beyond Black and White: Color and Mortality in Post Reconstruction Era North Carolina Explorations in Economic History Published online: 2012-07-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2012.06.002 Tiffany L. Green, Postdoctoral Fellow Health Disparities Research Scholars Training Program Center for Demography and Ecology University of Wisconsin, Madison Tod G. Hamilton, Research Fellow Department of Society, Human Development, and Health School…

  • Honoring Robert Lee Vann The State of Things WUNC 91.5, North Carolina Public Radio 2012-07-10 Frank Stasio, Host Sarah Edwards, Co-Host Guests Marvin Jones Chowan Discovery Group Cash Michaels, Editor, Chief Reporter/Photographer and Columnist The Carolinian North Carolina native Robert Lee Vann was a pioneer of journalism during his lifetime. He served as editor of…

  • Playing the Interracial Card The New York Times 2012-07-12 Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University “The Miscegenation Ball” Source: Smithsonian Museum of American History (1864) Color print of a dance occuring at the Lincoln Central Campaign Club in New York Sept. 22, 1864. A portrait of Lincoln hangs on the wall. Black…

  • How Do Children of Mixed Partnerships Fare in the United Kingdom? Understanding the Implications for Children of Parental Ethnic Homogamy and Heterogamy The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 643, Number 1, September 2012 pages 239-266 DOI: 10.1177/0002716212444853 Lucinda Platt, Professor of Sociology Institute of Education, University of London Many…

  • Introducing the Mix-d: Professionals’ Pack Mix-d: 2012-07-13 Everything you need to work confidently with the mixed-race subject. The Mix-d: Professionals’ Pack is an essential guide for teachers, facilitators, mentors and professional carers. The pack will equip you, your staff and organisation with the resources and knowledge to deal confidently with all aspects of the mixed-race topic……

  • Race mixture or miscegenation excited considerable scholarly interest and public indignation in the continental United States during the early twentieth century. According to the 1910 census, the number of self-identifying “mulattoes” in the U.S. population had risen to two million, more than 20% of African Americans. This development prompted concern among some white social theorists.…

  • The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia Melbourne University Publishing March 2002 364 pages 235 x 154 mm, 25 b/w illustrations & 4 maps Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-522-84989-9 Warwick Anderson, Research Professor of History University of Sydney Winner of the Australian Historical Association W.K. Hancock Prize 2004 In this lucid and original…

  • American Creoles: The Francophone Caribbean and the American South Liverpool University Press May 2012 256 pages 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 9781846317538 Edited by: Celia Britton, Professor of French and Francophone Studies University College London Martin Munro, Professor of French and Francophone Studies Florida State University The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are…