Month: February 2013

  • Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. 415 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9781594202827. Steven F. Riley 2011-02-28 “This is the decade of Tiger Woods and Barack Obama, where we talked about race combinations,” Robert Groves, director of the federal agency, said…

  • The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War University of North Carolina Press 2001 336 pages 6.125 x 9.25 32 illus., 9 genealogical charts, 10 maps, appends., notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN:  978-0-8078-5467-9 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters…

  • Racial identity and the law: miscegenation and the “one drop rule” Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2011-08-05 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History (author of The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies) Texas State University, San Marcos The “one drop rule” of race refers to the belief that…

  • The election of Barack Obama has had surprisingly little impact on a nation fixated on race

  • A new mixed-raced generation is transforming the city: Will Toronto be the world’s first post-racial metropolis? Toronto Life 2013-02-12 Nicholas Hune-Brown, Author Kourosh Keshiri, Photography Interviews by Jasmine Budak I used to be the only biracial kid in the room. Now, my exponentially expanding cohort promises a future where everyone is mixed. Last fall, I…

  • The Mulatto (hybrid) is in thirty states of this union, an illegitimate product. And, to the honest student of ethnology, this restriction is a wise one, for it is in accordance with a great law of nature, which cannot be violated with impunity. The tendency of this hybrid is to run out unless crossed with…

  • President Obama was not the first African American to seriously pursue the presidency. In fact, more than forty black men and women candidates paved the way for a black president; Obama stands on the shoulders of those other black leaders and politicians. Bruce A. Glasrud and Cary D. Wintz, “Introduction: The African American Quest for…

  • Trend 6: Who Am I? The Rise of Multiple Identities Profiles in Diversity Journal 2013-02-08 Mary-Frances Winters, CEO The Winters Group, Inc. “I am Latina, Muslim, millennial, mother and I want you to understand all of me.” The check the one box identity answer is a thing of the past. Diversity and inclusion practitioners will…

  • François Hollande’s misguided move: taking ‘race’ out of the constitution The Guardian 2013-02-12 Alana Lentin, Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Social Analysis University of Western Sydney Valérie Amiraux, Professor of Sociology University of Montreal Not talking about races does not lead naturally to the demise of ‘race thinking’ – it just obscures the persistent inequalities…

  • ITYC Interview: Multicultural Psychologist and Author Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Is That Your Child? Thought in Full Color 2013-02-11 Michelle Clark-McCrary, Host Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Stanford University ITYC had the great pleasure of talking with multicultural psychologist and author Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu about his latest book When Half is Whole: Multiethnic Asian Identities. Through deeply personal, raw storytelling, When…