Tag: Michele Elam

  • ENGLISH 56N: Mixed Race in the New Millennium: Crossings of Kin, Culture and Faith (Stanford Introductory Seminar) Stanford University Winter Quarter, 2011-2012 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Stanford University Our course examines how literature, theater, graphic art and popular culture shape…

  • Exploring the Popularization of the Mixed Race American The Human Experience: Inside the Humanities at Stanford University 2011-04-22 Stanford Scholar Investigates the “Mulatto Millennium” through Literature, Theatre, Art, & Pop Culture The United States has its first mixed race president, a man with a black African father and white American mother. Actress Halle Barry, golfer…

  • In Their Own Words with Michele Elam The Human Experience: inside the humanities at Stanford University 2011-04-15 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Stanford University  In this installment of “In Their Own Words” English professor Michele Elam discusses her latest research, which…

  • Why Obama is Black Again Thinking Twice: RACE The Stanford Review 2009-01-29 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Stanford University Barack Obama’s inauguration was for so many an awe-inspiring, historic and transnational event: It was full of grand pageantry and a good-humored…

  • Identity in Education: Future of Minority Studies Palgrave Macmillan May 2009 296 pages ISBN: 978-0-230-60917-4, ISBN10: 0-230-60917-1 6 1/8 x 9-1/4 inches, 296 pages,  Edited by Susan Sánchez-Casal, Director Tufts University / Skidmore College, Madrid Amie A. Macdonald, Associate Professor of Philosophy John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York This edited…

  • For different reasons, this same identity question has also had some traction with people of color, many of whom worry that Obama will usher in what Danzy Senna calls the “mulatto millennium,” especially if it implies that, as some of Obama’s supporters chanted earlier this year, “race doesn’t matter.”…

  • ENGLISH 261E: Mixed Race Literature in the U.S. and South Africa (seminar) Stanford University Department of English Winter Quarter, 2010-2011 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Grant Parker, Associate Professor of Classics Stanford Univeristy As scholar Werner Sollors recently suggested, novels, poems,…

  • Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century W. W. Norton and Company April 2010 590 pages 6.2 × 9.3 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-93070-2 Hazel Rose Markus (Editor) Stanford University Paula M. L. Moya (Editor) Stanford University A collection of new essays, written by a team of interdisciplinary authors, that gives a comprehensive introduction to…

  • Anomaly: A documentary fim about multiracial identity Langston Hughes African American Film Festival Sunday, 2010-04-18 13:30 PDT (Local Time) Central Cinema, 1411 21st Avenue (at Union), Seattle, WA 98122 (206) 686-6684 Jessica Chen Drammeh, Director/Producer Sharon Smith, Co-Producer Anomaly is a groundbreaking documentary film that takes an insider’s look at the experiences of multiracial Americans.…

  • The 2010 census, which hit mailboxes this month, is causing scholars and mixed-race people to debate, for just the second time in the count’s history, the dilemma of whether or not to check multiple “race” boxes.