Forthcoming… (Updated 2021-09-01)

The following is information about forthcoming media, articles or projects.  Details may be incomplete. As complete details become available, I will remove the respective item and post it separately in the Forthcoming Media category.  If you notice any errors or omissions, please contact me.

  • Donavan L. Ramon is currently completing a book manuscript on racial passing and psychoanalysis.
  • Nicole Hodges Persley is working on the first major biography of actress Fredi Washington (1903-1994), titled, ‘Not Tragic: Fredi Washington, Resistance, and Disruption from Broadway to Sunset Boulevard.’
  • Donavan L. Ramon is editing a collection of journal articles to commemorate the ninetieth anniversary of Nella Larsen’s novella Passing, and is revising his book manuscript on the psychoanalysis of racial passing.
  • Tao Leigh Goffe is at work on two books. The first, Undisciplined Intimacies: Vernacular Archives of Afro-Asia, explores the poetics and entanglements of African and Asian diasporas in the Caribbean. The second, Pon De Replay: Gender, Sexuality, and DJ Cultures, is a manifesto on black feminist praxis, technology, and nightclub culture.
  • Rebecca Carroll, Host and Editor of Special Projects at WNYC Radio in New York City has a forthcoming book, Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir from Simon & Schuster (2020).
  • Camille Z. Charles is working on a book exploring the intra-racial diversity among black Americans who identify either as African American, mixed-race/biracial, or black immigrant, tentatively titled The New Black: Race-Conscious or Post-Racial?
  • Sue Shon is currently working on a monograph, Visual Literacy and the Making of Racial Sense, which tells the story of how race acquired a visual feel through the aesthetic structuring of the modern visual experience.
  • Tiffany N. Florvil is currently revising her manuscript tentatively entitled, Making a Movement: A History of Black Germans, Gender, and Belonging.
  • Janine Bradbury’s first book, African American Women and Passing, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Wendy Castenell’s current project is a manuscript based on her dissertation entitled “Color Outside the Line: Liminality and Creole Identity in Louisiana, Colonial Era to Reconstruction,” which focuses on the forcible construction of racial and caste identities in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Louisiana. Using painted portraits of members of the community of free people of color, she argues that race in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Louisiana was ambiguous and flexible. There was a constant tension between public and private status, allowing people to move between and amongst castes.
  • Guy Emerson Mount has a forthcoming chapter titled “Creating the Black Family: Frederick Douglass, Helen Pitts, and the Sexual Politics of Interracial Marriage” in New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition, (2018) edited by Christopher Cameron, Ashley Farmer, and Keisha Blain from Northwestern University Press.
  • Lauren Heintz is currently at work on her manuscript, titled, Hidden In Plain View: Where Interracial Meets Queer in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture.
  • Victor Goldgel Carballo’s second scholarly monograph will be a study of ‘passing’ as an open secret in nineteenth-century Cuba. Racial passing is generally understood as a divergence between the private and the public identities of a given subject, and I argue that the Cuban case reveals the need for an alternative analytical model: one that allows us to conceptualize those cases in which this divergence is disregarded or disavowed, and in which the “fake” identity is implicitly validated. The book therefore focuses on a kind of passing that did not depend on racial secrets so much as open secrets, and investigates the active forms of not-knowing —ranging from tactful silence and reserve to hypocrisy and disavowal— at the core of the construction of identities.
  • In a new line of work, Diana J. Leonard has begun exploring moral judgments of racial passing behavior. That is, when people “transgress” boundaries of racial categorization, how do we as perceivers judge and, in some cases, denigrate these social actors and their behaviors?
  • Melvin Hill is currently developing an edited collection tentatively entitled, Critical Essays on Danzy Senna.
  • Elizabeth Webb is an artist and filmmaker currently living and working in Los Angeles. Her work is invested in issues surrounding race and identity, often using the lens of her own family history of migration and racial passing to explore larger, systemic constructs. She is currently working on a hybrid documentary film that traces the production and construction of racial identities within a family (her own) where members operate on both sides of the “color line.” Elizabeth holds a BA from the University of Virginia and is completing a dual MFA in Film/Video and Photography/Media at California Institute of the Arts.
  • Lorna Roth’s current book project, Colour Balance: Race, Technologies, and “Intelligent Design”, is a book in which she examines the ways in which skin colour has been imagined, embedded and colour-shifted over time in products and technologies.
  • Christine Winter’s current project is titled, German Mixed-Race Diasporas in Southern Hemisphere Mandated Territories: Scientific theories, politics and identity transformation.
  • Brigitte Fielder’s current project is titled “Kinfullness: White Womanhood and Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century American Literatures.” It explores exposing how the national/cultural trope of the white woman is constructed through positioning against white and non-white kin, Kinfullness shows how literary narratives of white women’s interracial kinship relations work to shape discourses of domesticity, heterosexuality, nationalism, abolitionism, and racial uplift, shifting the expectations of white women’s kinship towards a model of womanhood able to incorporate structures of national multiracial family.
  • Assistant Professor Lauren Davenport’s current book project, Politics Between Black and White, assesses how social, historical, and economic processes help construct multiracials’ identities and political outlook. Her other ongoing research projects examine the gendered nature of racial labeling, public attitudes towards interracial marriage, the policy ramifications of multiple-race identification, and the influence of coethnicity on voter support for political candidates.
  • Nitasha Tamar Sharma’s second book, Hawai‘i is my Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific is under contract with Duke University Press. This ethnography is based on interviews with 60 non-White mixed race Blacks in Hawai’i, including Black Hawaiians, Black Samoans, and Black Okinawans to analyze how mixed race people negotiate, express, and repress race as they identify across constructed racial categories. This work speaks to debates in Mixed Race Studies, Comparative Race Studies, and Diaspora Studies to analyze Blackness in the Pacific and offer new theories of belonging that emerge from the intersection of race and indigeneity.
  • Andrew N. Wegmann (Ph.D. Candidate at Louisiana State University) is working on a dissertation that tracks the racial history of the New Orleans Creoles of Color. Focused on the evolution of Creole racial identity and social status before the Civil War, the work looks at how developments in racial science, taxonomy, and language influenced Creole conceptions of racial and social belonging in New Orleans and the United States.
  • Dorothy E. Roberts is working on a research project examining her father’s (Robert E. T. Roberts) 500+ interviews of interracial couples and their children in Chicago from 1937 into the 1980s. Robert Roberts, a professor of anthropology and sociology Roosevelt University in downtown Chicago for the majority of his career, wrote numerous academic articles on interracial marriage.
  • Poets Monica McClure and Brenda Shaughnessy are editing an anthology titled, Both and Neither: Biracial Writers in America.
  • Mia Bagneris, (Assistant Professor of History of Art at Tulane University) is particularly interested in the place of images in the history of slavery, colonialism, empire, and the construction of national identities and in images of interracial contact and the mixed-race body. Her current project, Coloring the Caribbean: Agostino Brunias and the Painting of Race in the British West Indies, c. 1765-1800, challenges conventional designations of Brunias’s paintings as uncomplicated plantocratic propaganda that functioned as visual “field guides” for reading racial identity and social status, examining instead how the artist’s images reflected and refracted ideas about race commonly held by Britons in the colonial Caribbean during the late eighteenth century.
  • Guy Foster’s current book project is titled “Waking Up with the Enemy: Postwar African American Literature and the Ethics of Interracial Intimacy.”
  • Mary Chapman’s latest book project “Sui Sin Far” in Canada: The Uncollected Canadian Writings of Edith Eaton (under contract, McGill-Queen’s University Press) will more than quadruple the existing Eaton corpus and expand scholarly awareness of her Canadian and American publications.
  • Derek Adams of Ithaca College is currently working on a project that examines unconventional performances of racial normativity in African American and American literature. The project explores some of the more subtle connections between the American canon of racial passing literature and the current social climate of “racelessness” in the United States.
  • Christina Synder is currently at work on a book-length work called The Indian Gentlemen of Choctaw Academy: Status and Sovereignty in Antebellum America. Choctaw Academy, operating from 1825 to 1848, was the first multitribal boarding school in the United States, and it was run by Richard Mentor Johnson (vice president under Van Buren) and Johnson’s mixed-race family. Although initiated by the Choctaw Nation, the Academy became home to a diverse range of Native peoples from the Southeast and Midwest, including Creeks, Cherokees, Chickasaws, Seminoles, Potawatomis, Miamis, and Osages. Although extraordinary in many respects, Choctaw Academy illuminates wider patterns in American antebellum history; this place has much to teach us about the gap between racial ideology and everyday practice, as well as cross-cultural ideas about class and status, and Indian notions of sovereignty during the crucial Removal era.
  • Helen Diamond Steele, Ph.D. [Clemson University] candidate in Educational Leadership Higher Education, has been awarded the Research Incentive Grant by the Southern Association for College Student Affairs (SACSA) for her dissertation study entitled, “Racial Identity Development of Mixed-Race College Students.” The purpose of the study is to identify the factors that influence mixed-race college students’ choice of racial identity.
  • Rita Reynolds is presently working on a book on wealthy free women of color in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina.
  • Daniel R. McNeil is currently completing a book entitled Honest Men: Black Radicals, White Liberals and a Neoliberal Revolution, which examines the spectral effect of Frantz Fanon on two cohorts of intellectuals in Britain, Canada and the United States. He is also working on a number of projects relating to representations of slavery, racial liberalism and ‘mixed-race’ metaphors.
  • Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan is currently completing her PhD dissertation (University of British Columbia): an ethnography of global sex tourism in Ponta Negra, a tourist area in the coastal city of Natal, Brazil. In particular, Marie-Eve is interested in the trajectories of Brazilian women who utilize the sex tourist economy in projects of social mobility and explores the ambiguous relationships of love and money between (mixed-race) Brazilian women and (white) European male tourists.
  • Julie Cary Nerad’s monograph “Blood Legacies: Identity, Inheritance, and Intent in Racial Passing Novels.” in under revision.  Also, her edited volume “The Politics of Appearance: Racial Passing in U. S. Fiction, Memoir, Television and Film, 1990-2010.” is under review at the University of Georgia Press.
  • Nathan P. Rambukkana is completing a post-doctoral project at the graduate program in Communication & Culture at York University (Ontario, Canada) titled “Postcoloniality and Privilege in the Hybrid Subject: Mixed-race Identity and Intimate Privilege in Theory and Popular Discourse.” The project is funded by the Fonds Québéquois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture (FQRSC).
  • The May 2011 edition of Ebony Magazine features a special report called “Mixed Race in America” and included is an essay by University of Mississippi Associate Law Professor Michèle Alexandre called “Black Like Me: One Drop, No Difference?” in which she tackles post-racialism and the political ramifications of racial identification.
  • Susan Lambe, M.A., M.Ed., is a doctoral candidate at the Clinical Psychology Program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her research focuses on racial and ethnic minority psychology, with an emphasis on issues related to mixed race individuals and families. Ms. Lambe’s dissertation examines intergenerational ethnic-racial socialization processes within interracial families, as well as understandings of race, ethnicity, and inter-group relations among multiracial adolescents. Her clinical training has been in school and community clinic settings with Latino, African American, and Asian American populations. She is working to develop a strengths-based, culturally-relevant, affinity group framework to enhance academic performance, psychosocial engagement, and racial identity development among adolescent girls of color. Before Susan began her doctoral work, she earned a masterês degree in Human Development and Psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In addition, since 2002, she has served as the Director of SwirlBoston, the first chapter Swirl, Inc., a national organization for multiracial individuals, couples, and families.
  • Tom I. Romero, II is revising a book manuscript on multiracial formation and the law in post-World War II Denver, Colorado; where among other aspect of the analysis, he extensively explores Keyes v. School Board No. One, 413 US 189 (1973) (the first non-Southern school desegregation case to reach the United States Supreme Court).
  • Nicole Asong Nfonoyim was awarded the New Professional Award by the Multiracial Network (MRN) of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) for her work with mixed-race issues in higher education.
  • University of Sydney Honorary Associate Vicki Grieves is descendent from the midnorth coast of NSW [New South Wales] and is a registered Native Title Claimant in that region. Her research interests are the constructions of race, especially as they impact on mixed-race Indigenous families, the impacts of colonialism and public policy and most recently Indigenous knowledges development. She has published widely including in the “history wars” debate and by invitation in journals including the international Indigenous scholarly journal AlterNative. She is currently completing a Ph.D. thesis exploring mixed-race marriages in Worimi and a biography of the Worimi elder Mr Les Ridgeway for which she has received the NSW Indigenous History Fellowship. With Dr Fiona Probyn of the University of Sydney she is researching the experience of mixed-race family life on an individual’s understanding of “race”, through interviews with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal family members to be published as Significant Others: race and the Australian family.
  • Edward E. Telles has an article in progress with Stanley R. Bailey titled, From Ambiguity to Affirmation: Challenging Census Race Categories in Brazil.  He also has another article in progress titled, Racial ambiguity among the Brazilian population.
  • Jessica J. Good and  Diana T. Sanchez have an article in-press titled, “Sources of self-categorization as minority for mixed race individuals: Implications for affirmative action entitlement” in Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology
  • Marcia Alesan Dawkins is begining work with Ulli K. Ryder (Brown University) to launch The Institute for the Study of Multiracial Identity and Communications. Rhode Island corporate filing information is here.
  • Martha J. Cutter is is currently at work on a third book, Black No More? Passing and the Meaning of Race in American History and Literature, which will trace the origins of racial passing and provide a cultural history of its changing significance in U.S. society from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century.
  • Mary Beltrán is working on a new book, Post Race Pop? Diversity, Ambiguity, and Colorblind Politics in Millennial Media Culture. Post Race Pop? aims to explore ethnic representation, racial ambiguity, and mixed-race representation in its critique of network and narrative strategies for increased ethnic diversity in contemporary television series such as Lost, Ugly Betty, and The Wizards of Waverly Place.
  • Karina Eileraas, Ph.D., a research scholar at UCLA since 2008, is researching the constructions of multiracial identity in “American Girl” dolls.
  • Anne Farrah Hyde has a forthcoming chapter titled “Hard Choices: Mixed Race Parents and Children in a Post-Conquest West” in Love and Power in the American West, ed. David Adams (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010).  She also has another forthcoming chapther titled Mixed-Race and Half Breeds: Children and Family Choices in the Nineteenth Century” in Childhood and History, Paula S. Fass, ed. (Routledge, 2010).
  • Larry Hajime Shinagawa has one book forthcoming, From Where I Stand: Readings in Multicultural America, and another to be published by Cornell University Press, Asian American Intermarriage and the Social Construction of Love.
  • Heidi Ardizzone is currently revising an article, “Rumors of Race: Ambiguity and Knowing in the Case of Belle da Costa Greene,” and is also working on her third book, The Color of Blood: The Significance of the Black-White Figure in American History.
  • Martha Hodes is currently working on a research project entitled “Racial Classification and Narratives of Skin Color in the Nineteenth-Century United States.” This project investigates the meanings and uses of narratives about human complexion in the nineteenth-century United States, with attention to transnational settings.
  • Ginette Curry is in the process of finalizing two upcoming book publications on pre-colonial Africa and multiracial themes in African-European literature.
  • Tace Hedrick is writing her next book, tentatively titled Queering the Cosmic Race: Spirituality, Race, and Sexuality in U.S. Latina/o Artists and Writers, 1970–2000. This project focuses on four U.S. Latina/o artists and writers: the Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta, Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldúa, Nuyorican artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz, and Puerto Rican television personality and astrologist Walter Mercado. Dr. Hedrick places these artists within a transnational intellectual and artistic history of people of color of the Americas who have, from the early twentieth century, investigated alternatives to Western spirituality – Eastern, African or Native religions and beliefs, Buddhism, the occult, spiritualism, Theosophy, esoteric knowledges – as a way of reformulating existing social ideas about race, gender, and sexuality. These are artists whose mixed-race heritage and sometimes queer sexuality lead them to seek within spiritual and esoteric traditions images of sexual and racial unity and a language of personal and social transformation.
  • Thompson, Beverly Yuen. “The Price of ‘Community’: From a Bisexual/Biracial Perspective.”  In The Colors of the Rainbow: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender People of Color in the Academy, (Voices), Vernon A. Wall and Jamie Washington, eds.  University Press of America and the American College Personnel Association, forthcoming 2010.
  • Stephen Small is in the final stages of writing a book manuscript entitled, The Matrix of Miscegenation: People of Mixed Origins under slavery in the USA and the Caribbean, to be published by New York University Press.
  • Stefanie Dunning is at work on a new book, Everyday Hybridities, which explores questions of racial and sexual confusion and indetermincy, focusing specifically on class confusion, bisexuality and mixed race identity after 1967.
  • Rockquemore, Kerry Ann and Loren Henderson, “Inter-Racial Families in Post-Civil Rights America.” In Barbara Risman (Ed.), Families As They Really Are, New York: Norton.
  • Harris, Cherise and Kerry Ann Rockquemore. “Multicultural Perspectives of Self and Racial and Ethnic Identity.” In Margaret Beale Spencer, Dena Phillips, and Malik Edwards (Eds). Adolescent Development During a Global Area. Elsevier Press.