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  • Mestizaje and the Mexican Mestizo Self: No hay Sangre Negra, so there is no Blackness Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal Volume 15, Number 2 (Spring 2006) Pages 199-234 Taunya Lovell Banks, Jacob A. France Professor of Equality Jurisprudence and Francis & Harriet Iglehart Research Professor of Law University of Maryland School of Law Many legal…

  • The African Presence in Mexico A Symposium Presented by Callaloo – A Journal of African Diapora Arts and Letters and The Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University 2008-10-22 through 2008-10-23 Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Sessions The Road to Blackness: A Search for Identity Within the Afro-Mexican Community (audio, photographs) Slavery and Freedom…

  • Blood Will Tell: Scientific Racism and the Legal Prohibition Against Miscegenation Michigan Journal of Race & Law University of Michigan Law School Volume 5, Issue 2 (Spring 2000) pages 560-609 Keith Edward Sealing, Dean of Students Widener Law School, Widener University Laws banning miscegenation endured in the colonies and the United States for more than…

  • Exploring the Experiences of First-Generation, Multiethnic Undergraduate College Students The Journal of Student Affairs Student Affairs in Higher Education Colorado State University Volume 14, 2004-2005 Jody Donovan and Lehala Johnson This qualitative research paper investigates the experiences of first-generation, multiethnic undergraduate students at two public, four-year universities in the Rocky Mountain region. The existing research…

  • Mixed Race in the Age of Obama University of Chicago Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC) International House, Home Room 1414 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 2010-03-05, 09:00 to 18:00 CST (Local Time) The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of  Chicago presents a daylong…

  • Natasha Trethewey Reads at ECU The Common Reader Newsletter of the ECU Department of English Eastern Carolina University Volume 26, Number 6: May 2008 Lisa DeVries On April 2, Natasha Trethewey visited East Carolina University for a public reading and book signing organized by fellow poet and friend John Hoppenthaler.  She won the Pulitizer Prize…

  • In the late 1700s the roots of cowboy culture arose out of the Carolinas. These men and women were not the typical white ranchers that would be depicted in later stories and films. Instead they were a group of “tri-racial isolates.”

  • An exploration of a great American writer’s abiding concern with the color line

  • Representing gods in a mixed-race society: Images, rituals and politics in María Lionza’s cult (Venezuela) University of St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CAS) Social Anthropology Seminar Room (Room 50, St Salvator’s Building) 2010-03-17, 15:00Z to 17:00Z Roger Canals University of Barcelona Roger Canals, University of Barcelona, will…

  • Written Out of History Pomona College Magazine Pomona College, Claremont, California Fall 2002 Volume 39, Number 1 Michael Balchunas Spurred by a glimpse of family history, Professor Sid Lemelle is bringing to light a little-known aspect of the African Diaspora. When the new people moved in, all eyes were upon them. There were comments about…