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  • Racism, White Supremacy and Biracial/Multiraciality (2011)

    From my September 2011 talk at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. In this snippet, I respond to a question about how we should understand or think about biracial and multiracial folks’ experiences in a system of racism/white supremacy.

  • Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism

    “Troubling the Family” argues that the emergence of multiracialism during the 1990s was determined by underlying and unacknowledged gender norms. Opening with a germinal moment for multiracialism—the seemingly massive and instantaneous popular appearance of Tiger Woods in 1997—Habiba Ibrahim examines how the shifting status of racial hero for both black and multiracial communities makes sense…

  • Left of Black S3:E9 | Racial Passing and the Rise of Multiracialism

    For many African Americans, the practice of ‘Passing’—where light-skinned Blacks could pass for White—remains a thing connected to a difficult racial past. In her new book, Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity (Baylor University Press), Marcia Dawkins, a professor in the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California…

  • The Case for Cablinasian: Multiracial Naming From Plessy to Tiger Woods

    The Case for Cablinasian: Multiracial Naming From Plessy to Tiger Woods Communication Theory Volume 22, Issue 1 (February 2012) pages 92–111 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2885.2011.01399.x LeiLani Nishime, Assistant Professor of Communication University of Washington, Seattle This article advocates for the interdisciplinary use of critical race theory and critical rhetorical theory in communication to analyze racialized language and…

  • The Tiger Woods phenomenon: a note on biracial identity

    The Tiger Woods phenomenon: a note on biracial identity The Social Science Journal Volume 38, Issue 2, Summer 2001 Pages 333-336 DOI: 10.1016/S0362-3319(01)00118-5 Ronald E. Hall, Professor of Social Work Michigan State University Traditional race based models exclude the unique developmental dynamics of biracial Americans such as “Tiger” Woods. Conversely, a substantial portion of the…

  • The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal

    The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal Duke University Press November 2011 160 pages 20 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5210-5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5199-3 Orin Starn, Professor of Cultural Anthropology Duke University Perhaps the best golfer ever, Tiger Woods rocketed to the top of a once whites-only sport. Endorsements made…

  • Darkening Tiger Woods: How post-scandal Tiger Woods lost his whiteness and became Blasian

    Darkening Tiger Woods: How post-scandal Tiger Woods lost his whiteness and became Blasian Asian American Cultural Center Lounge 1210 W. Nevada Street Urbana, Illinois 2011-04-25, 14:00 CDT (Local Time) Myra Washington, Assistant Professor of Communication & Journalism University of New Mexico The rhetoric around Tiger Woods, after his extramarital affairs became public, demonstrates the complexities…

  • The Limits of the Choice of Identity

    “A tree, whatever the circumstances, does not become a legume, a vine, or a cow,” explains Kwame Anthony Appiah in The Ethics Of Identity. “The reasonable middle view is that constructing an identity is a good thing (if self-authorship is a good thing) but that the identity must make some kind of sense. And for…

  • Segregated Miscegenation: On the Treatment of Racial Hybridity in the North American and Latin American Literary Traditions

    Segregated Miscegenation: On the Treatment of Racial Hybridity in the North American and Latin American Literary Traditions Routledge 2003-02-28 Pages: 144 Trim Size: 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-94349-9 Carlos Hiraldo, Professor of English LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York Through the comparative study of literatures from the United States and Latin America,…

  • Race: I’m Just Who I am

    Race: I’m Just Who I am Time Magazine 1997-05-05 Jack E. White, Washington Tamala M. Edwards, Washington Elaine Lafferty, Los Angeles Sylvester Monoroe, Los Angeles Victoria Rainert, New York His nickname notwithstanding, professional golfer Frank (“Fuzzy”) Zoeller saw Tiger Woods quite clearly. He gazed upon the new king of professional golf, through whose veins runs…