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Month: October 2012

  • “Tense and Tender Ties”: a review of Janny Scott’s A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother (2011)

    “Tense and Tender Ties”: a review of Janny Scott’s A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother (2011) Transition Number 108 (2012) pages 129-140 Kimberly DaCosta, Associate Professor of Sociology; Associate Dean of Students New York University, Gallatin Psychologically conflicted, confused, traitorous, tragic, and deracinated: the public vocabulary used to describe multiracial people…

  • 2012 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference

    2012 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference DePaul University Student Center 2250 North Shefield Avenue Chicago, Illinois 2012-11-01 through 2012-11-04 “What is Critical Mixed Race Studies?,” the biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, will be held at DePaul University in Chicago on November 1-4, 2012. The CMRS conference brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines…

  • What Can We Learn about White Privilege and Racism from the Experiences of White Mothers Parenting Biracial Children?

    What Can We Learn about White Privilege and Racism from the Experiences of White Mothers Parenting Biracial Children? Wilfrid Laurier University 2008 175 pages Shannon Cushing A THESIS Submitted to the Department of Psychology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Master of Arts Degree in Community Psychology Despite progress in the movement toward anti-racism,…

  • Learning to be different: A white mother of biracial children experiences racism

    Learning to be different: A white mother of biracial children experiences racism University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) December 2004 194 pages Publication Number: AAT 3154007 ISBN: 9780496146376 Jennifer Ann Greer Johnson A Dissertation Submitted to the Education Faculty of the University of St. Thomas in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree Doctor of…

  • Mixed Race Issues to be Examined at DePaul University Forum

    Mixed Race Issues to be Examined at DePaul University Forum DePaul University News Release 2012-10-29 As Americans of mixed racial ancestry continue to grow in number and diversity, the demographic, social, political and cultural implications for the country become more complex. These issues will be examined from a variety of perspectives at a groundbreaking conference…

  • Race in a Bottle

    Race in a Bottle Scientific American Volume 297 (January 1, 2007) pages 40-45 Jonathan D. Kahn, Professor of Law Hamline University, Saint Paul, Minnesota Drugmakers are eager to develop medicines targeted at ethnic groups, but so far they have made poor choices based on unsound science. This article focuses on the drug, BiDil – a drug…

  • Is Elizabeth Warren an Indian?

    Is Elizabeth Warren an Indian? The Aporetic 2012-09-27 Mike O’Malley The ques­tion posed above is extremely hard to answer. She doesn’t “look like an indian.” But what do Indians look like? Just to recap: Elizabeth Warren is run­ning for the Sen­ate in Massachusetts. She’s been widely mocked for claiming herself as “native Ameri­can” at var­i­ous…

  • Obama struggles to balance African Americans’ hopes with country’s as a whole

    Obama struggles to balance African Americans’ hopes with country’s as a whole The Washington Post 2012-10-28 Peter Wallsten Barack Obama stood at the lectern, trying to figure out what to say — or at least how to say it. He started speaking, then stopped, then started again, each time searching for the right tone, the…

  • “Incestuous Sheets” and “Adulterate Beasts”: Incest and Miscegenation in Early Modern Drama

    “Incestuous Sheets” and “Adulterate Beasts”: Incest and Miscegenation in Early Modern Drama University of Michigan 2011 199 pages Kentston D. Bauman A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (English Language and Literature) This dissertation explores the centrality of incest and miscegenation in the early modern cultural…

  • Research Matters June 27, 2012

    Research Matters June 27, 2012 USC Dornsife Research Office Weekly Updates University of Southern California 2012-06-27 Stephan Haas, Vice Dean of Research Awards This information is based upon official award data from the Contracts and Grants office. It is provided to make you aware of the interesting research that is being conducted by our colleagues…