Month: June 2013

  • Some Thoughts on Biracialism and Poetry Boston Review 2013-06-13 Paisley Rekdal, Associate Professor of English University of Utah To be a biracial and female writer might suggest one of two things: first, that my gender and race are the subject matter of my work or, second, that the forms of my writing reflect my identity.…

  • The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach About Being Different James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy Rice University 2011-09-15, 18:00-19:30 CDT Jenifer L. Bratter, Host & Associate Professor of Sociology Rice University New York University sociology professor Ann Morning, Ph.D., analyzes how scientists influence ideas about race through teachings and textbooks.…

  • Multiracial Americans have often been heralded as “new people” and in fact have been rediscovered as such more than once in the last century. Charles Chesnutt’s 1899 novel The House Behind the Cedars features a mulatto character who uses the phrase to describe himself and others like him; in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s,…

  • Yet having populated North America for nearly four centuries, mixed-race people are far from being a recent phenomenon in the United States. Their early presence has been recorded to greater and lesser degrees in legal records, literature, and historical documentation. As far back as the 1630s and 1640s, colonial records attest to the punishment of…

  • Census Bureau Names Ann Morning to National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations Newsroom, News Release: CB13-R.30 United States Census Bureau 2013-06-26 Public Information Office, Phone: 301-763-3030 Note from Steven F. Riley: Ann Morning is the author of book The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference (University of California Press,…

  • Cherokee Phoenix: Remarks on the Report of the Committee on Indian Affairs in the House of Representatives Cherokee Phoenix and Indians’ Advocate New Echota, Georgia Wednesday, 1830-03-30 Volume II, Number 50 Page 1, column 1b; Page 2, column 2b Source: Hunter Library, Western Carolina University and Georgia Historic Newspapers We have read that part of…

  • Professor Dorothy Roberts — Challenging Concepts of Race Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-06-26, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania Dorothy Roberts is the fourteenth Penn Integrates…

  • The Mestizo Mind: The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization Routledge 2002-09-06 272 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-92879-3 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-92878-6 Serge Gruzinski, Research Director National Scientific Research Center (CNRS, Paris) Mestizo: a person of mixed blood; specifically, a person of mixed European and American Indian ancestry. Serge Gruzinski, the renowned historian of Latin America, offers…

  • The Mestizo State: Reading Race in Modern Mexico University of Minnesota Press June 2012 248 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5637-0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5636-3 Joshua Lund, Associate Professor of Spanish University of Pittsburgh The Mestizo State examines how the ideas, images, and public discourse around race, nation, and citizen formation have been…

  • You don’t have to be mixed-race to have a mixed identity The Seattle Globalist: Where Seattle Meets the World 2013-06-24 Maggie Thorpe, Graduate student in Japan Studies University of Washington Editor’s note: Laura Kina, who is quoted throughout this post, disagrees with the representation of her perspective here. You can read her response in the comments.…