Month: February 2014

  • Mixed Race America: Identities and Culture Fifteenth Annual American Studies Conference Macalester College 1600 Grand Avenue Saint Paul, Minnesota 55105 2014-02-27 through 2014-02-28 Keynote Address Thursday, 2014-02-27, 18:00-19:30 CST (Local Time) Alexander G. Hill Ballroom Kagin Commons, Macalester Keynote Speakers: Ralina L. Joseph, Associate Professor of Communication University of Washington Author of: Transcending Blackness: From…

  • Multiple (Eye)dentity Series: (1)ne Drop Rule w/ Yaba Blay New York University Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square Sout Room 802 New York, New York 10012 Thursday, 2014-02-27, 17:00-21:00 EST (Local Time) The Multiple (Eye)dentity Series is comprised of films, performances and speakers that showcase the ways in which art and media are…

  • Black History Month in Germany German Mission to the United States 2014-02-14 In the United States February has been celebrated as Black History Month for the past four decades or so, with schools, media, institutions and celebrities taking the opportunity to highlight the accomplishments and historical experiences of African Americans. In recent years, Germany has…

  • Malaysians of mixed parentage back deleting ‘race’ in official paperwork The Malay Mail Online Petaling Jaya, Malaysia 2014-02-24 Ushar Daniele PETALING JAYA, Feb 24 — The proposal to remove the race column in all paperwork in the country has been received positively. he Malay Mail yesterday spoke to people on the street and with one…

  • Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking by Michael Keevak (review) China Review International Volume 19, Number 1, 2012 pages 103-105 DOI: 10.1353/cri.2012.0023 Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara Michael Keevak, Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011). 248 pages. Becoming Yellow is a…

  • What’s in a name? ‘Mixed,’ ‘biracial,’ ‘black’ Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-02-19 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History University of Michigan (CNN) — When the census listed Negro as a race option in 2010, a controversy erupted. My students at the University of Michigan were eager to denounce the term’s…

  • Race, Marriage, and the Law of Freedom: Alabama and Virginia 1860s-1960s Chicago-Kent Law Review Volume 70, Issue 2: Symposium on the Law of Freedom, Part I: Freedom: Personal Liberty and Private Law (1994) pages 371-437 Peter Wallenstein, Professor of History Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University INTRODUCTION In 1966, one hundred years after Congress passed…

  • Being Mixed in Today’s America Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2014-02-07 Jonathan Ng California State University, San Bernardino For me, being mixed ethnicity has been a multiple-way street ― like a giant intersection. I am Black, White and Chinese; however, based on my skin color, most people classify me as Black. I look racially ambiguous,…

  • Pacifically Possessed: Scientific Production and Native Hawaiian Critique of the “Almost White” Polynesian Race University of California, San Diego 2013 320 pages Maile Renee Arvin A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Ethnic Studies This dissertation analyzes how scientific knowledge has represented the Polynesian race as…

  • The invisible weight of whiteness: the racial grammar of everyday life in contemporary America Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Issue 2, 2012 pages 173-194 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.613997 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University Racial domination, like all forms of domination, works best when it becomes hegemonic, that is, when it accomplishes its goal without…