Author: Steven

  • Race (Part 1) The Chronicle of Higher Education Blog: Brainstorm—Ideas and culture. 2012-04-09 David Barash, Professor of Psychology University of Washington, Seattle Here’s a delicate subject, especially given the nationwide anguish over what appears to have been the cold-blooded, racially lubricated if not racially motivated murder of Trayvon Martin: race itself. More specifically and more…

  • Plaque honour for ‘first black star’ Elisabeth Welch BBC News 2012-02-27 The singer Elisabeth Welch is to be commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque in south-west London. She is the second black woman to be honoured with a blue plaque in London. It will be unveiled in Ovington Court, Kensington, which was her home…

  • American Indian Identity and Blood Quantum in the 21st Century: A Critical Review Journal of Anthropology Volume 2011 (2011) Article ID 549521 9 pages DOI: 10.1155/2011/549521 Ryan W. Schmidt Department of Anthropology University of Montana Identity in American Indian communities has continually been a subject of contentious debate among legal scholars, federal policy-makers, anthropologists, historians,…

  • The Indians and the Metis: genealogical sources on Minnesota’s earliest settlers Minnesota History Magazine Volume 46, Number 7 (Fall 1979) pages 286-296 Virginia Rogers Editors Preface GENEALOGISTS have long hesitated to do research on Minnesota’s Indian and métis or mixed-blood population. The fact that Indian and related métis peoples participated in a largely ond culture may…

  • A Seminole Warrior Cloaked in Defiance Smithsonian Magazine October 2010 Owen Edwards A pair of woven, beaded garters reflects the spirit of Seminole warrior Osceola Infinity of nations,” a new permanent exhibition encompassing nearly 700 works of indigenous art from North, Central and South America, opens October 23 at the George Gustav Heye Center in…

  • Real Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood [Review by Steve George] Ethnicities Volume 27, Number 2 (2005) Pages 272–274 Steve George Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland Real Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood. By Bonita Lawrence. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. Pp. 303, bibliography, index,…

  • Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Social Worlds Rutgers University Press 2005-05-18 264 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-3586-9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-3585-2 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8135-3757-3 Erica Chito Childs, Associate Professor of Sociology Hunter College, City University of New York Is love color-blind, or at least becoming increasingly so? Today’s popular rhetoric and evidence of more interracial…

  • The Mixed-race MilkBite™ Brad’s Blog: musings on sociology, religion, higher ed, and whatever else is going on in my life 2012-04-16 Bradley Koch, Assistant Professor of Sociology Georgia College & State University Here are a few commercials for the new MilkBite™ from Kraft. They play on stereotypes about mixed-race individuals. There are other spots on…

  • Film Review: Marley Film Journal International 2012-04-18 Marsha McCreadie Marley, the documentary by Oscar-winning Kevin Macdonald about the legendary musician and national and international symbol for individual rights, should sparkle and sing—OK, there’s some of that—but it just sort of hums along. Maybe you can’t catch this particular lightning in a bottle, but there might…

  • The Legend of Marley: Kevin Macdonald considers reggae, Rasta and politics in new documentary Film Journal International 2012-04-19 Doris Toumarkine It’s taken several decades and faced many frustrating setbacks, but a richly documented and worthy film about the late reggae superstar Bob Marley has at last been realized. Previously attached to Martin Scorsese and Jonathan…