Day: April 15, 2013

  • Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial [Gaither Review] MXDWELL 2013-02-17 Renoir Gaither MXDWELL is a versatile online news source that celebrates and redefines the mixed experience by presenting a variety of cultural and artistic news, while promoting diversity as a vital aspect of our community. Behind her behemoth title, “Transcending…

  • The Identity Development of Multiracial Youth. ERIC/CUE Digest, Number 137 Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) ERIC Identifier: ED425248 November 1998 9 pages Wendy Schwartz In the past several decades, individuals have been responding more actively to political and personal pressures to identify with a specific group that shares their background. For many people of mixed…

  • Beyond Race: Human Biological Diversity (Third Edition) Cognella 2013 Joelle Presson, Affiliate Research Assistant Professor Department of Biology University of Maryland Jan Jenner University of Alabama, Birmingham Race. It’s an idea that dominates our culture and continues to generate societal tensions. But what really are human races? Are races meaningful in a biological sense? What…

  • Black Indian With a Camera: The Work of Valena Broussard Dismukes Southeastern Oklahoma University Native American Symposium 2005-Proceedings of the Sixth Native American Symposium pages 40-46 Sarita Cannon University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign In this paper, I examine the liberatory photography of a living African-Choctaw-French American artist, Valena Broussard Dismukes. I am especially fascinated by the…

  • The Mismeasure of Man W. W. Norton & Company June 1996 (Originally published in 1981) 448 pages 5.5 × 8.3 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-31425-0 Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002), Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology Harvard University The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure…

  • Race: The History of an Idea in the West Johns Hopkins University Press May 1996 464 pages Paperback (on-demand) ISBN: 9780801852237 Ivan Hannaford In Race: The History of an Idea in the West Ivan Hannaford guides readers through a dangerous engagement with an idea that so permeates Western thinking that we expect to find it,…

  • SNAPSHOT: “a true story of love interrupted by invasion” Greenway Court Theatre 544. N. Fairfax Avenue Los Angeles, California 2013-04-04 through 2013-04-21 Mitzi Sinnott A daughter’s journey through a landscape of years, memories and realities, initiated by her questioning, “what do I know about war?”  The answers are lying in an album of faded photos…

  • Racial Theories in Context (Second Edition) Cognella 2013 224 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60927-056-8 Edited by: Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine This book presents a critical framework for understanding how and why race matters — past, present, and future. The readings trace the historical…