Tag: Lucinda Roy

  • We biracials can claim a unique role in race dialogue The Roanoke Times Roanoke, Virginia 2013-07-28 Lucinda Roy, Alumni Distinguished Professor of English Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Following a keynote on diversity I delivered recently, a woman approached me and commented on the fact that I had referred to myself as biracial. She…

  • The past two decades have seen a growing influx of biracial discourse in fiction, memoir, and theory, and since the 2008 election of Barack Obama to the presidency, debates over whether America has entered a “post-racial” phase have set the media abuzz. In this penetrating and provocative study, Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins adds a new dimension…