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  • Navigating Multiple Identities: Race, Gender, Culture, Nationality, and Roles Oxford University Press March 2012 288 pages Paperback ISBN13: 9780199732074; ISBN10: 0199732078 Edited by Ruthellen Josselson, Professor of Psychology Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, California Michele Harway, Faculty Research Specialist Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, California Although questionnaires routinely ask people to check boxes indicating if…

  • The book covers the gamut of inter-ethnic experiences throughout the Portuguese-speaking world, from the sixteenth century to the present day, integrating contributions from history, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, literary, and cultural studies. It offers a radical updating of both empirical data and methodologies, and aims to contribute to current debates on racism and ethnic relations…

  • The First American Freedom Fighter William Loren Katz 2012-02-02 William Loren Katz This February 2nd stands as the 500th anniversary of the death of Hatuey, an Indigenous American fighter for independence from colonialism not mentioned in the same breath as Patrick Henry, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. However, Hatuey deserves recognition as their earliest ideological…

  • ‘Town Secret’: Race of Famous Carthaginian Embraced The Pilot Southern Pines, North Carolina 2012-02-11 John Chappell Every year with its Buggy Festival, Carthage celebrates the achievements of a former slave, though until recently few knew it. William T. Jones — born a slave, and the son of a slave and her owner — ran the…

  • The city is Macao, the Portuguese settlement on the China Coast, as it was more than 200 years ago. The promises are those made by Englishmen to marry their Macao mistresses, only to leave them abandoned and their children bastards.

  • Virginia’s Caroline County, ‘Symbolic of Main Street USA’ The Washington Post 2012-02-10 Carol Morello Bowling Green, Va. — Only a few easily overlooked markers note the importance of Mildred and Richard Loving in Caroline County, where five decades ago the sheriff rousted the white man and his black bride from their bed and carted them…

  • Replacing History With Fiction in Arizona The Nation 2012-02-08 Gary Younge In 1997 black America gained a new hero when Tiger Woods putted himself into history at the US Masters. Within a few weeks, it had lost him in an unlikely fashion—to a bespoke racial identity articulated on Oprah’s couch.    Does it bother you…

  • Writing Africans Out of the Racial Hierarchy: Anti-African Sentiment in Post-Revolutionary Mexico Cincinnati Romance Review Volume 30 (2011): Afro-Hispanic Subjectivities pages 172-183 Galadriel Mehera Gerardo, Assistant Professor of Latin American History Youngstown State University Over the past two decades scholars have examined Mexican racial ideology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They have…

  • Rice Outside the Paddy: The Form and Function of Hybridity in a Thai Novel Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Volume 11, Number 1 (1997) pages 51-78 Jan R. Weisman This paper examines some of the problematic issues of racial hybridity in contemporary Thailand through an analysis of the fictional portrayal of Thai…

  • Impostors: EUST-235 Amherst College Spring 2012 Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture Deborah R. Dizard, Visiting Lecturer in European Studies An interdisciplinary exploration of the causes behind the social, racial, artistic, and political act—and art—of posing, passing, or pretending to be someone else. Blacks passing for whites, Jews passing for gentiles,…