Month: December 2013

  • Trope Theory, Cane, and the Metaphysical Case for Genre Genre Volume 46, Number 3 (Fall 2013) pages 239-263 DOI: 10.1215/00166928-2345605 Katie Owens-Murphy Department of English University of Minnesota, Duluth Although we rely regularly on genre as a conceptual apparatus for our scholarship and course offerings, genre studies as a theory and methodology has never quite…

  • Scripts of Blackness and the Racial Dynamics of Nationalism in Puerto Rico Papers of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Volume 6 (2009) 38 pages Dr. Isar P. Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey National identity, no matter how differently defined, is often constructed through claims to…

  • Patterns of self-harm and attempted suicide among white and black/mixed race female prisoners Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health Volume 13, Issue 4 (November 2003) pages 229–240 DOI: 10.1002/cbm.549 Jo Borrill Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine University of London Rachel Burnett Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial…

  • UCLA receiver Thomas Duarte proud of biracial heritage Los Angeles Daily News 2013-11-25 Jack Wang, Staff Reporter The smell hits him three or four blocks away. Thomas Duarte is coming back from a run around his Orange County neighborhood, and the day is hot enough that the windows of his house have been cracked open.…

  • I Call Myself What I like: Mixed Race Identity & Social Media University of Leicester October 2013 68 pages Nadia Riepenhausen Submitted for the degree of MA in Mass Communications, Media & Public Relations This research study asserts that mixed race people are hyper-visible in terms of their images in media and popular culture, yet…

  • The Symbolic Power of Color: Constructions of Race, Skin-Color, and Identity in Brazil Humanity & Society Volume 35, Numbers 1-2 (February 2011) pages 62-99 DOI: 10.1177/016059761103500104 Marcia L. Mikulak, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of North Dakota Some current cultural anthropologists define race as a social construct, yet explorations of the socio-historical constructions that give…

  • “(1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race” sets out to explore the extent to which historical definitions of race continue to shape contemporary racial identities and lived experiences of racial difference, particularly among those for whom the legacy of the one-drop rule perceptibly lingers. Featuring the perspectives of 60 contributors representing 25 countries and combining…