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  • West Indian literary representations of local Chinese populations illuminate concepts of national belonging

  • Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century W. W. Norton and Company April 2010 590 pages 6.2 × 9.3 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-93070-2 Hazel Rose Markus (Editor) Stanford University Paula M. L. Moya (Editor) Stanford University A collection of new essays, written by a team of interdisciplinary authors, that gives a comprehensive introduction to…

  • Multifaceted Identity of Interethnic Young People: Chameleon Identities Ashgate Publishing May 2010 Illustrations: Includes 24 (including 5 tables) line drawings 234 x 156 mm 224 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-7860-1 eBook ISBN: 978-0-7546-9691-9 BL Reference: 305.8’0083-dc22   Sultana Choudhry, Principal Lecturer in Psychology and Director of Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health London Metropolitan University, UK…

  • Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America’s Future (Revised and Updated) W. W. Norton & Company June 2010 288 pages 5.5 × 8.25 in Paperback ISBN 978-0-393-33685-6 by Angela Glover Blackwell Stewart Kwoh Manuel Pastor, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity University of California, Santa Cruz With a mixed-race president, a Latino population that is now…

  • In 1805, a New Orleans newspaper advertisement formally defined a new social institution, the infamous Quadroon Ball, in which prostitution and plaçage–a system of concubinage–converged. These elegant balls, limited to upper-class white men and free “quadroon” women, became interracial rendezvous that provided evening entertainment and the possibility of forming sexual liaisons in exchange for financial…

  • What’s the Use of Race? Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference The MIT Press May 2010 7 x 9, 296 pp., 7 illus. ISBN-10: 0-262-51424-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51424-8 Edited by Ian Whitmarsh, Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine University of California, San Francisco David S. Jones, Associate Professor of History and Culture…

  • plaçage was a recognized extralegal system in which white French and Spanish and later Creole men entered into the equivalent of common-law marriages with women of African, Indian and white (European) Creole descent. The term comes from the French placer meaning “to place with”. The women were not legally recognized as wives, but were known…

  • Mixed Chicks Chat (Second) Interview with Steve Riley, Creator of Mixed Race Studies Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #159 – Steven F. Riley…

  • Telling “Forgotten” Métis Histories through Family, Community, and Individuals [Book Review] H-Net Reviews October 2009 Camie Augustus University of Saskatchewan David McNab, Ute Lischke, eds. The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007. viii + 386 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-88920-523-9. “We are still here.” This opening…

  • The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories Wilfrid Laurier University Press May 2007 370 pages ISBN13: 978-0-88920-523-9 Editors: Ute Lischke, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies Wilfrid Laurier University David T. McNab, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies York University, Toronto Known as “Canada’s forgotten people,” the Métis have long…