Author: Steven

  • “Portuguese” Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries Indiana University Press 2002-11-14 224 pages 32 b&w photos, 2 maps, 1 index 6.125 x 9.25 ISBN: 978-0-253-21552-9 Peter Mark, Professor of Art History Wesleyan University In this detailed history of domestic architecture in West Africa, Peter Mark shows how building styles are closely associated with…

  • Hybridity International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (2009) Pages 258-263 ISBN: 978-0-08-044910-4 Article DOI: 10.1016/B978-008044910-4.00959-7 Divya P. Tolia-Kelly, Reader of Geography Durham University This article traces the term ‘hybridity’ to the eighteenth century in its origins as a defining principle of racial difference between ‘black’ and ‘white’ categories of man. Here, the focus is on the ways…

  • Mixed But Not Divided: Multi-ethnic populations redefine racial lines City on a Hill Press: A Student-Run Newspaper University of California, Santa Cruz 2011-10-20 Chelsea Hawkins When I was six or seven years old, I would spend my Saturday afternoons at the local Korean Baptist Church. A pink textbook opened in front of me, oversized hangul…

  • Tracing Trails of Blood on Ice: Commemorating “The Great Escape” in 1861-62 of Indians and Blacks into Kansas Negro History Bulletin Jaunary-December 2001 Willard B. Johnson My heart raced and emotions surged before I consciously grasped the meaning of what I was reading in that footnote. Reading all the footnotes had become routine for me,…

  • Challenges and resilience in the lives of urban, multiracial adults: An instrument development study. Journal of Counseling Psychology Volume 58, Issue 4 (October 2011) pages 494-507 DOI: 10.1037/a0024633 Nazish M. Salahuddin Karen M. O’Brian Multiracial Americans represent a rapidly growing population (Shih & Sanchez, 2009); however, very little is known about the types of challenges…

  • The immediacy of Obama’s interracial parentage, along with his transnational experience of being reared in Hawaii and Indonesia, by his white mother and her relatives, along with his Indonesian step-father, has imbued his consciousness with a broader vision and wider-ranging sympathies in forming an identity. This in turn enhances his image as the physical embodiment…

  • The Preacher and the Politician: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and Race in America University of Virginia Press October 2009 160 pages 5 1/2x 81/4 Cloth ISBN: 0-8139-2886-9 Clarence E. Walker, Professor of History University of California, Davis Gregory D. Smithers, Visiting Associate Professor of History Virginia Commonwealth University Barack Obama’s inauguration as the first African American president of…

  • “Asi lo paresçe por su aspeto”: Physiognomy and the Construction of Difference in Colonial Bogotá Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 91, Number 4 (2011) pages 601-631 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-1416648 Joanne Rappaport, Professor of Anthropology Georgetown University My objective in this article is to examine the relationship between perception and classification in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Andes,…

  • “Pure and Noble Indians, Untainted by Inferior Idolatrous Races”: Native Elites and the Discourse of Blood Purity in Late Colonial Mexico Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 91, Number 4 (2011) pages 633-663 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-1416657 Peter B. Villella, Assistant Professor of History University of North Carolina, Greensboro As sixteenth-century Spaniards constructed their global empire, they carried…

  • Toward a Cleaner White(ness): New Racial Identities The Philosophical Forum Volume 36, Issue 3 (Fall 2005) pages 243–277 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9191.2005.00203.x David Ingram, Professor of Philosophy Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois The essay critically examines some arguments advanced by Henry Giroux that ‘whiteness’ can be appropriated within pedagogical settings as a positive force in combating racism. I…