Month: September 2012

  • Interracial Brooklyn Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations September 2012 Michael J. Rosenfeld, Associate Professor of Sociology Stanford University Intermarriage has been rising in the United States steadily since about 1960. Before 1960 there were so few interracial marriages in the United States that Interraciality was really invisible. Prior to 1960, the idea of…

  • Stir Builds Over Actress to Portray Nina Simone The New York Times 2012-09-12 Tanzina Vega In the digital age Hollywood casting decisions leaked from behind closed doors can instantly become fodder for public debate. And when the decision involves race and celebrity, the debate can get very heated. The online media world has been abuzz…

  • The Lure of Whiteness and the Politics of “Otherness”: Mexican American Racial Identity University of Texas, Austin 2004 185 pages Julie Anne Dowling Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the The University of Texas at Austin In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Using a…

  • The United States Census in Its Relations to Sanitation Public Health Paper Report Volume 15 (1889) pages 43-46 John S. Billings, Surgeon, U.S.A. (1838-1913) I have several times inflicted upon this patient and long-suffering Association papers relating to statistical matters and methods, which, it must be confessed, were better fitted to serve for occasional reference than to occupy…

  • Reflections of a Racial Queer Multicultural Perspectives Volume 12, Issue 2, 2010 pages 107-112 DOI: 10.1080/15210960.2010.481213 Aurora Chang-Ross Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin In this article, I reflect on my personal experiences of racial queerness. In an effort to speak my secrets, I explore my identity production as a Multiracial person by critically examining my positionality…

  • The Fate of the Afro-Turks: Nothing Left But the Colour Qantara.de Bonn, Germany 2012-08-27 Ekrem Eddy Güzeldere (Translated from the German by Michael Lawton) The Afro-Turks, whose ancestors came to the Ottoman Empire as slaves in the nineteenth century, are still struggling for recognition. Now, though, their desire to assimilate into the wider society has become greater…

  • Marcia Dawkins Booksigning Eso Won Books 4327 Degnan Blvd (Leimert Park Business Center) Los Angeles, California 90008 Phone: 323-290-1048 2012-09-12, 19:00-21:00 PDT (Local Time) Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity by Marcia Alesan Dawkins. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2012, 285 pages. Hardback ISBN: 9781602583122. Passing (def): usually understood as an abbreviation…

  • An Exploration of Factors Influencing Multiracial/Multiethnic Identity Development: A Qualitative Investigation University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, Minnesota 2012-05-12 Anesh S. Patel A Doctoral Project Presented to the Graduate School of Professional Psychology in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Psychology As of 2000, one in forty Americans identified themselves…

  • Biracial and monoracial infant own-race face perception: an eye tracking study Developmental Science Published online: 2012-09-07 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01170.x Sarah E. Gaither Department of Psychology Tufts University Kristin Pauker, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Hawaii Scott P. Johnson, Professor of Psychology University of California, Los Angeles We know that early experience plays a crucial role…

  • The black experience in postwar Germany University of Connecticut Honors Scholar Program 2012-05-06 36 pages Jamie Christopher Morris This paper endeavors to find the extent of anti-black racism in various sectors of German society following World War Two through an examination of primary sources and secondary scholarship. While some Germans, often women, tolerated and even loved…