Mixed Race Studies

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Month: November 2012

  • Non-profit Tuesday: Why Give? What you might not expect in return

    Non-profit Tuesday: Why Give? What you might not expect in return Laura Kina 2012-11-27 Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University Giving is hard. I’m not talking about birthday or Christmas gifts here. There is a social contract that you must give back to those who you…

  • Diving into the Gene Pool

    Diving into the Gene Pool TIME Magazine 2006-08-20 Carolina A. Miranda If they held a convention for racial purity, I would never make the guest list. Like most other Latin American families, mine is a multiethnic stew that has left me with the generic black-eyed and olive-skinned look typical of large swaths of the world’s…

  • In 1791, South Carolina’s court of last resort held that falsely describing an individual as a mulatto was actionable “because, if true, the [plaintiff] would be deprived of all civil rights.”

    The use of defamation law to reinforce privately held class-based animus traces back at least to the eighteenth century. In 1791, South Carolina’s court of last resort held that falsely describing an individual as a mulatto was actionable “because, if true, the [plaintiff] would be deprived of all civil rights.” False imputations that white persons…

  • Including Museums in Critical Mixed Race Studies

    Including Museums in Critical Mixed Race Studies the incluseum: museums and social inclusion 2012-11-27 Chieko Phillips, Curatorial Assistant Northwest African American Museum, Seattle, Washington In 2009, when I first learned of a museum exhibit called IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas and two other exhibits that carried messages about multiraciality, I had mixed feelings (pun…

  • Sneak peek at next ‘Black in America’

    Sneak peek at next ‘Black in America’ Cable News Network 2012-11-27 What makes someone black in America? Skin color? History? Culture? Soledad O’Brien reports on Sunday, December 9 at 8pm ET/PT.

  • Disparate Impact

    Disparate Impact Georgetown Law Journal Volume 98, Issue 4 (2010) pages 1133-1163 Girardeau A. Spann, Professor of Law Georgetown University Law Center Introduction There has been a lot of talk about post-racialism since the 2008 election of Barack Obama as the first black President of the United States. Some have argued that the Obama election…

  • Whiteness in the Age of Obama

    Whiteness in the Age of Obama The Huffington Post 2012-11-26 Jedediah Purdy, Professor of Law Duke University Recall the numbers: 59 percent of white voters supported Romney. More dramatically, 88 percent of his votes came from whites. One simple but plausible analysis suggested that Obama won a majority of white votes only in New England,…

  • Rose Hill: An Intermarriage before Its Time

    A riveting memoir of cultural crossfire

  • Edith and Winnifred Eaton: Chinatown Missions and Japanese Romances

    Daughters of a British father and a Chinese mother, Edith and Winnifred Eaton pursued wildly different paths. While Edith wrote stories of downtrodden Chinese immigrants under the pen name Sui Sin Far, Winnifred presented herself as Japanese American and published Japanese romance novels in English under the name Onoto Watanna.

  • Finding Edith Eaton

    Finding Edith Eaton Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers Volume 29, Number 2, 2012 pages 263-269 DOI: 10.1353/leg.2012.0017 Mary Chapman, Associate Professor of English University of British Columbia Since her critical recovery in the early 1980s, Edith Maude Eaton has been celebrated as the first Asian North American writer and as an early, authentic…