Mixed Race Studies

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Month: December 2013

  • Off-White Like Me

    Off-White Like Me LA Weekly Culver City, California 2008-03-26 David Ehrenstein Biracial? Tell it to the hosts of Fox and Friends. Obama is black. On a cross-country trip in the summer of 1957, my family stopped in Oklahoma City. There, my father asked a policeman for directions to the state capitol. The officer began to…

  • Defying Categorization: The Work of Suzette Mayr

    Defying Categorization: The Work of Suzette Mayr Canadian Woman Studies / Les Caheiers de la Femme Volume 23, Number 2 (2004) pages 71-75 Katie Petersen Le corpus littéraire de Suzette Mayr examine les croisements raciaux, la sexualité marginalisée et la formation de l’identité personnelle dans des espaces indéfinis. Ses recueils de poemès et ses nouvelles…

  • Looking for Co-presenters for 2014 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference (Chicago, November)

    Looking for Co-presenters for 2014 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference (Chicago, November) 2013-12-26 Kim Potowski, Associate Professor of Linguistics University of Illinois, Chicago I would like to submit a panel for the 2014 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference about language and the ways in which language (dialects, code-switching, etc.) reflects and enacts the identities of…

  • Four Simple Reasons Smart People Shouldn’t Believe in Races

    Four Simple Reasons Smart People Shouldn’t Believe in Races Psychology Today About Thinking: Questioning everything with a hopeful skeptic 2013-12-23 Guy P. Harrison Today is a good day to wake up and join the human species. Guess what I do almost every time race and racism are discussed in popular culture. I groan and turn…

  • Freedom’s Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner

    Freedom’s Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner University of West Virginia Press March 2013 288 pages Hardcover (Jacketed) ISBN: 978-1-935978-60-2 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-935978-61-9 ePub ISBN: 978-1-935978-62-6 PDF ISBN: 978-1-935978-95-4 Foreword by: Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Fred C. Frey Professor of Southern Studies Louisiana State University Edited by: Jean Lee Cole, Associate Professor of English…

  • Notes On A Theory Of Multi-Racial White Supremacist Patriarchy, aka MRWaSP

    Notes On A Theory Of Multi-Racial White Supremacist Patriarchy, aka MRWaSP it’s her factory: pop culture and philosophy from a critical-race feminist perspective. 2013-11-29 Robin James, Associate Professor of Philosophy & Women’s & Gender Studies University of North Carolina, Charlotte Multi-Racial White Supremacist Patriarchy, or MRWaSP, is my term for early 21st-century globalized Western race/gender/sexuality/capitalist…

  • The Widows

    The Widows NeWest Press April 1998 256 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-896300-30-6 Suzette Mayr Hannelore, Clotilde, and Frau Schnadelhuber are three old women tired of living in a world which does not allow old women to be seen or heard. Deciding to shake their fists at such a world, the three women plot to go over…

  • Moon Honey

    Moon Honey NeWest Press September 1995 224 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-896300-00-9 Suzette Mayr In this modern, magical tale, Carmen and Griffin, young and white, are goofy, head-over-heels in love. When Carmen turns into a black woman, Griffin thrills at a love turned exotic. But Carmen’s transformation means trouble for Griffin’s racist mother, already struggling with…

  • “The Quiltings of Human Flesh”—Constructions of Racial Hybridity in Contemporary African-Canadian Literature

    “The Quiltings of Human Flesh”—Constructions of Racial Hybridity in Contemporary African-Canadian Literature University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany 2010-05-02 366 pages Heike Bast Dissertation to obtain the academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Division of the Humanities, University of Greifswald TABLE OF CONTENTS ‘RACE’ MATTERS’: A PERSONAL NOTE ON BELONGING 1. INTRODUCTION: ‘SOLE OR WHOLE’ –…

  • Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego [Floyd Review]

    Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego [Floyd Review] The Journal of San Diego History Volume 59, Number 4 (Fall 2013) pages 291-292 Carlton Floyd, Associate Professor of English University of San Diego Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego. By Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,…