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  • Impurely Raced // Purely Erased: Toward a Rhetorical Theory of (Bi)Racial Passing

    Impurely Raced // Purely Erased: Toward a Rhetorical Theory of (Bi)Racial Passing University of Southern California May 2009 348 pages Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMMUNICATION) This dissertation…

  • Racial Mixing = Racial Progress?

    Because of our nation’s history of slavery, segregation and interment, racism is conflated with physical racial separation. As a consequence racial progress is conflated with racial mixing. Multiracial individuals and interracial families are touted as icons of racial healing because they are thought to have special insights based on what they are—mixed.  Marcia Alesan Dawkins,…

  • Truthdig Radio with Marcia Dawkins

    Truthdig Radio with Marcia Dawkins Truthdig Radio KPFK 90.7 FM (Los Angeles); 98.7 FM (Santa Barbara); 99.5 FM (China Lake); 93.7 North San Diego Wednesday, 2011-04-20, 21:00Z (14:00 PDT, 17:00 EDT) Kasia Anderson, Host and Associate Editor Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Dr. Dawkins discusses mixed race identities, press (including the 2011-04-18 CNN…

  • Ladies Remember Elizabeth Taylor, Weigh Modern Beauty Standards

    Ladies Remember Elizabeth Taylor, Weigh Modern Beauty Standards Tell Me More National Public Radio 2011-03-23, 14:00-15:00 EDT (WAMU, 88.5 FM, Washington, D.C.) For other broadcast times, click here. Farai Chideya, Guest Host Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor has died at the age of 79. The screen icon became a…

  • Mary Beltrán and Camilla Fojas (Eds.), Mixed Race Hollywood, New York University Press, 2008, 325 pp. [Review]

    Mary Beltrán and Camilla Fojas (Eds.), Mixed Race Hollywood, New York University Press, 2008, 325 pp. [Review] International Journal of Communication Issue 4 (2010) pages 139-141 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University In the wake of “Obama-mania,” conventional wisdom about racial identity is facing a set of new and unique challenges. It is therefore…

  • Jean Toomer’s Conflicted Racial Identity [Reader Responses]

    Jean Toomer’s Conflicted Racial Identity [Reader Responses] The Chronicle of Higher Education 2011-03-06 Charles R. Larson, Professor of Literature American University, Washington, D. C. To the Editor: Congratulations to Rudolph P. Byrd and Henry Louis Gates Jr. for concluding that Jean Toomer was a Negro who decided to pass for white—the same conclusion I made…

  • Mixed Race Beauty Gets a Mainstream Makeover

    Mixed Race Beauty Gets a Mainstream Makeover TruthDig 2011-03-07 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Are mixed race faces considered the most beautiful? A recent report from Allure magazine says yes. Results of a survey conducted by Allure reveal that 64 percent of its readers thought mixed race was the most attractive. The editors…

  • Mixed-Race Celebrities on Race, in their Own Words

    Mixed-Race Celebrities on Race, in their Own Words Time Magazine: Healthland 2011-02-15 Meredith Melnick, Reporter and Producer Who Are You? If biracial and multiracial celebrities have anything in common, it is that they are often asked to explain themselves. That may sound familiar to any person of mixed ancestry for whom questions like “What are…

  • The Coming MiscegeNation?

    The Coming MiscegeNation? TruthDig 2011-02-13 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University It’s official. We’re a “miscegeNation.” The 2010 Census results are reminding us that multiracialism is not only our destiny but our reality. We’re seeing the rise of the most diverse cohort of youth in the nation’s history with a record low white population—the…

  • Halle Berry and Nahla: Not So Mixed, Not So Happy

    Halle Berry and Nahla: Not So Mixed, Not So Happy The Huffington Post 2011-02-09 Marcia Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University As we await the results of the 2010 Census it’s tempting to think that our growing comfort with categorizing people as multiracial has erased racism and the fear of interracial relations. But in a recent…