Month: December 2013

  • Stanford historian re-examines practice of racial ‘passing’ Stanford News The Humanities at Stanford 2013-12-18 Nate Sloan, Doctoral Candidate in Musicology Stanford University In the margins of historical accounts and the dusty corners of family archives, Stanford history Professor Allyson Hobbs uncovers stories long kept hidden: those of African Americans who passed as white, from the…

  • Assimilation in Charles W. Chesnutt’s Works University of New Orleans 2013-05-17 41 pages Mary C. Harris A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Master of Arts In English Charles W. Chesnutt captures the essence of the Post Civil War…

  • Professor Mark Christian on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Episode: #233 – Professor Mark Christian Wednesday, 2011-11-16, 22:00Z (17:00 EST, 14:00 PST) Mark Christian, Professor…

  • Chesnutt’s Genuine Blacks and Future Americans MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 15, Number 3, Discovery: Research and Interpretation (Autumn, 1988) pages 109-119 SallyAnn H. Ferguson, Professor of English University of North Carolina, Greensboro Scholarship on novelist and short story writer Charles W. Chesnutt stagnates in recent years because his critics have failed to…

  • The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency Texas A&M University Press 2014-01-15 266 pages 6 x 9 7 b&w photos. 4 figs. 4 tables. Bib. Index. Unjacketed Cloth ISBN: 978-1-62349-042-3 Paper ISBN: 978-1-62349-043-0 Edited by: Justin S. Vaughn, Assistant Professor of Political Science Boise State University Jennifer R. Mercieca, Associate Professor Department of…

  • MXRS Podcast Episode 1: Lawrence-Minh Búi Davis and the Mixed Race Initiative Mixed Roots Stories 2013-12-10 Chandra Crudup, Host Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Host Mark R. Edwards, Host Lawrence-Minh Búi Davis, co-Editor-in-Chief Asian American Literary Review We are thrilled to launch Episode 1 of the MXRS Podcast – bringing you the story behind the stories. Our…

  • New York Times and The American Riddle Only-NeverInSweden 2013-09-03 Larry Lundgren Linköping, Sweden The [New York] Times accepted two comments on OpEd article by Charles Blow: “The Most Dangerous Negro.” Here are the two books that I presently cite in comments on this and related articles Prewitt, Kenneth, 2013, What is Your Race-The Census and…

  • Witnessing Charles Chesnutt: The Contexts of “The Dumb Witness” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 38, Issue 4 (December 2013) pages 103-121 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlt045 Benjamin S. Lawson Florida State University The silence and silencing of the character Viney in Charles Chesnutt’s short story, “The Dumb Witness” (c. 1897), artfully addresses the issue of…

  • Americans of multiracial descent recently have become noticeable, respectable, marketable, and, in the case of Barack Obama, presidential. In the last two decades, a growing body of creative and critical work about multiracial lives and issues has materialized. This social and historical development has become an ideological battleground for advocates, politicians, scholars, journalists, and marketers…

  • Arabs, Hispanics seeking better US Census recognition Aljazeera America 2013-12-17 Haya El Nasser, Los Angeles Digital Reporter  Many community organizations hope for a new Middle East and North Africa category in the next Census. When Hassan Jaber, a Lebanese-American, fills out his Census questionnaire, the race question gives him pause. White? No. Black? No. Asian?…