Author: Steven

  • The arrival of Europeans in the Caribbean brought about irreversible demographic change. Decimated by defeat and disease, ‘peaceful’ Arawaks and ‘warlike’ Caribs alike ceased to exist as an identifiable ethnic group, their gene pool dissolving into that of the newcomers, where it died away or remained un-investigated.

  • In view of the unique and colourful history of the ties between Ireland and Brazil that date back centuries, it is perhaps surprising that the most famous Irish-Brazilian was a mixed-race rock star from Dublin.

  • Marginal Man and Hard-Boiled Detective: Racial Passing in Robert Skinner’s Wesley Farrell Series Clues: A Journal of Detection Volume 26, Number 3 (Spring 2008) pages 56-69 DOI: 10.3172/CLU.26.3.56 Sinéad Moynihan, Lecturer in English University of Exeter The author argues that tropes of detection and racial passing are mutually compatible in Robert Skinner’s six New Orleans-set…

  • It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real…

  • This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of ‘passing’. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction.

  • A Health Survey of the Seminole Indians Yale Journal Biology and Medicine Volume 6, Number 2 (December 1933) pages 155–177 H. Hamlin Among the numerous tribes of Indians living in Oklahoma the Seminoles offer some interesting phenomena for study which may contribute information on the subject of race mixture and its relationship to environment and…

  • Mixed Race: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanese Daily News 2011-06-19 Velina Hasu Houston Recently I was honored with a Loving Award from the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival (held June 11-12 at the Japanese American National Museum). The award and the meaning behind it has caused me to reflect on…

  • Other Communions: Maya, Mulatto, Woman and God in Miguel Ángel Asturias 1923-1974 University of Michigan 2010 218 pages Andrea Leigh Dewees A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Romance Languages and Literatures: Spanish) in the University of Michigan “Other Communions: Maya, Mulatto, Woman and God in…

  • What Is The Real Issue With Obama Choosing Black? The Atlanta Post 2010-05-04 Yvette Carnell During candidate Obama’s run for Presidency, he said “I self-identify as an African-American. That’s how I am treated and that’s how I am viewed. And I’m proud of it.” Case closed right?  One would think so, but now that President…

  • “Redemption for Our Anguished Racial History”: Race and the National Narrative in Commemorative Journalism About Barack Obama Journal of Communication Inquiry Volume 35, Number 2 (April 2011) pages 115-133 DOI: 10.1177/0196859911404604 Siobahn Stiles Temple University Carolyn Kitch, Professor of Journalism Temple University, Philadelphia This article considers how race was discussed in commemorative journalism produced after…