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Month: August 2012

  • An Imperative Duty

    “An Imperative Duty” tells the story of Rhoda Aldgate, a young woman on the verge of marriage who has been raised by her aunt to assume that she is white, but who is in fact the descendant of an African-American grandmother.

  • Unsuitable Suitors: Anti-Miscegenation Laws, Naturalization Laws, and the Construction of Asian Identities

    Unsuitable Suitors: Anti-Miscegenation Laws, Naturalization Laws, and the Construction of Asian Identities Law & Society Review Volume 41, Issue 3 (September 2007) pages 587–618 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5893.2007.00315.x Deenesh Sohoni, Associate Professor of Sociology The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia In this article, I use state-level anti-miscegenation legislation to examine how Asian ethnic groups became…

  • How Jews Became White Folks and What That says about Race in America

    How Jews Became White Folks and What That says about Race in America Rutgers University Press 1998-10-01 272 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-2589-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-2590-7 Karen Brodkin, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology University of California, Los Angeles A wide-ranging and provocative assessment of how race, class, and gender shape social identity in the United States. We…

  • Will new age of mixed-race identities loosen the hold of race or tie it up in tighter knots?

    Ward Connerly, who describes himself as a roughly equal mix of French Canadian, Choctaw, African and Irish ancestry and who is married to a white woman, spent much of the last decade campaigning to end race-based affirmative action. Susan Graham, a white woman married to a black man, has spent that same decade working tirelessly…

  • Obama is a Descendant of Nefertiti & Confucius Too

    Obama is a Descendant of Nefertiti & Confucius Too Dominion of New York 2012-07-31 Alondra Nelson, Associate Professor of Sociology Columbia University There was breaking news yesterday in the lively world of presidential genealogy. Barack Obama–who is regarded as an inauthentic African-American by some because his late mother, Stanley Anne Dunham, was a white woman…

  • Three Black Scholars Honored With Prestigious Awards

    Three Black Scholars Honored With Prestigious Awards The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 2012-07-26 …G. Reginald Daniel, a professor of sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, received the 2012 Loving Prize from the Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival in Los Angeles. Established in 2008, the prize is given to artists,…

  • “Not Half But Double”: Exploring Critical Incidents in the Racial Identity of Multiracial College Students

    “Not Half But Double”: Exploring Critical Incidents in the Racial Identity of Multiracial College Students Journal of College Student Development Volume 53, Number 4, July/August 2012 pages 524-541 DOI: 10.1353/csd.2012.0054 Angela H. Kellogg, Director of Academic Advising and Career Services University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point Debora L. Liddell, Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of the…

  • Don’t Call Me Hapa

    Don’t Call Me Hapa ricepaper: Asian Canadian Arts and Culture Issue 16.3 (Fall 2011) The Hybrid Issue Arron Leaf THERE WAS A MOMENT IN HIGH SCHOOL when I was fascinated with mixed-race identity and the word “Hapa.” Using this Hawaiian term meaning “half” as in “half-white” to describe myself felt empowering, somehow. My mom is…

  • The Passing of Anatole Broyard

    The Passing of Anatole Broyard Chapter in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man Random House 1997 256 pages ISBN: 978-0-679-77666-6 Chapter pages: 180-214 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research Harvard University In 1982, an investment banker…

  • Race mixing was here from the beginning.

    “It’s absolutely poetic,” [Sheryll] Cashin said of the discovery. “Race mixing was here from the beginning.” Krissah Thompson, “Obama’s purported link to early American slave is latest twist in family tree,” The Washington Post, July 30, 2012.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/purported-obama-link-to-first-american-slave-is-latest-twist-in-presidents-family-tree/2012/07/30/gJQAYuG1KX_story.html