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  • Prof. Khanna widely consulted in Dolezal controversy

    Prof. Khanna widely consulted in Dolezal controversy UVM Department of Sociology University of Vermont 2015-06-17 Prof. Nikki Khanna, an expert in shifting racial identities and the social construction of race, has been widely sought after by the media in the wake of the controversy about Rachel Dolezal. Some of the media outlets where she was…

  • From the Golden Gate to the Green Mountains: A Hapa Educational Autobiography and Meta-Critical Reflection

    From the Golden Gate to the Green Mountains: A Hapa Educational Autobiography and Meta-Critical Reflection University of Vermont October 2012 65 pages Noelle Brassey A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the Graduate College of The University of Vermont In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts Specializing in English…

  • HCOL 86 E: D1: Mixed: Multiracialism in U.S. Culture

    HCOL 86 E: D1: Mixed: Multiracialism in U.S. Culture University of Vermont The Honors College Spring 2013 John Gennari, Associate Professor of English This seminar will examine the theme of multiracial identity and culture in the United States. We’ll consider how U.S. concepts and ideologies of race have developed historically, and why within that history…

  • Passing as Black

    Passing as Black The University of Vermont University Communications 2011-03-30 Lee Ann Cox The new dynamics of biracial identity in America There’s a rule everybody knows. Not the golden one. Since the days of slavery and Jim Crow segregation, when “one drop” of black ancestry determined the whole of who you were, black-by-default is a…

  • University of Vermont study examines biracial identity

    University of Vermont study examines biracial identity Burlington Free Press 2010-12-28 Tim Johnson, Free Press Staff Writer Even though he was born of a white mother and an African father, Barack Obama is commonly referred to as the first black president. That’s a sign, sociologists say, that America’s “one-drop rule”—a vestige of the United States’…