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Month: October 2014

  • Historical Origins of the One-Drop Racial Rule in the United States

    Winthrop Jordan, one of the most honored of US historians, wrote about racial mixing a generation before there was a field of mixed race studies. At the time of his death, he left an unfinished manuscript: “Historical Origins of the One-Drop Racial Rule in the United States.” For this inaugural issue of the JCMRS, Jordan’s…

  • “I am on the Coloured Side”: The Roles of the White Suitor and the Black Mother in the Tragic Mulatta Narrative

    “I am on the Coloured Side”: The Roles of the White Suitor and the Black Mother in the Tragic Mulatta Narrative University of Massachusetts at Amherst 2013 Shannon D. Luders Manuel What I propose to add to the already established dialogue regarding the tragic mulatta narrative is an investigation into the commonalities of the genre’s endings,…

  • Black Is, Black Ain’t: Biracials, Middle-Class Blacks, and the Social Construction of Blackness

    Black Is, Black Ain’t: Biracials, Middle-Class Blacks, and the Social Construction of Blackness Sociological Spectrum Volume 30,  Issue 6, 2010 pages 639-670 DOI: 10.1080/02732173.2010.510057 Cherise A. Harris, Associate Professor of Sociology Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut Nikki Khanna, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Vermont Several scholars claim that group cohesion among black Americans is…

  • “What Are You?” Multiracial Identity and the Persistence of Racism in a “Post-Racial” Society

    “What Are You?” Multiracial Identity and the Persistence of Racism in a “Post-Racial” Society University of Virginia 2014 Hephzibah Virginia Strmic-Pawl In 2000, and for the first time, the U.S. Census allowed individuals to “mark one or more” races, and now the U.S. Census projects that those who choose two or more races will triple…

  • The Black, British Atlantic: Blackness in Victorian Literature

    The Black, British Atlantic: Blackness in Victorian Literature University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2014 Donghee Om My dissertation is about transnational aspects of the Victorian era from the vantage point of what Paul Gilroy described more than two decades ago as the “black Atlantic.” Looking at various ways in which the black Atlantic was at…

  • Are Biracial Children Damaged?

    Are Biracial Children Damaged? HERS Magazine November/December 2014 page 36 Cherrye S. Vasquez Approximately seven years ago, I was engaged in what I thought was a friendly conversation with a group of ladies at my work. As mothers, we often talked about our daily activities our children were engaged in. Our conversations were personal, easy…

  • The 3rd Biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference “Global Mixed Race”

    The 3rd Biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference “Global Mixed Race” DePaul University DePaul Student Center 2550 North Shefield Chicago, Illinois 60614 2014-11-13 through 2014-11-15 Free and open to the public! Global Mixed Race, the third biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, will be hosted at DePaul University in Chicago, November 13th-15th, 2014. It will…

  • Negro? Prieto? Moreno? A Question of Identity for Black Mexicans

    Negro? Prieto? Moreno? A Question of Identity for Black Mexicans The New York Times 2014-10-25 Randal C. Archibold, Bureau Chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean JOSÉ MARÍA MORELOS, Mexico — Hernán Reyes calls himself “negro” — black — plain and simple. After some thought, Elda Mayren decides she is “Afromexicana,” or African-Mexican. Candido…

  • Portlander Damaris Webb explores racial gray areas in ‘The Box Marked Black’

    Portlander Damaris Webb explores racial gray areas in ‘The Box Marked Black’ The Oregonian Portland, Oregon 2013-02-16 Marty Hughley When it came time for Damaris Webb to apply for college, her father encouraged her to check the box on application forms indicating “black” as her racial origin. For long enough in his family’s history, being…

  • William Makepeace Thackeray: Racist?

    William Makepeace Thackeray: Racist? OUPblog: Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World 2011-07-18 John Sutherland, Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus of Modern English Literature University College, London We can never know the Victorians as well as they knew themselves. Nor–however well we annotate our texts–can we read Victorian novels as responsively as Victorians read…