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  • 24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship to Europeans and American Indians The New York Times 2013-11-20 Nicholas Wade The genome of a young boy buried at Mal’ta near Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia some 24,000 years ago has turned out to hold two surprises for anthropologists. The first is that the boy’s DNA matches that of Western…

  • Emilio Fernández: Pictures in the Margins Manchester University Press October 2007 192 pages 216 x 138 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7190-7432-5 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7190-8844-5 Dolores Tierney, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom Emilio Fernández: Pictures in the Margins is the first book-length English language account of Emilio Fernández (1904-1986) the most…

  • Diana Mafe Publishes Book What’s Happening Denison University, Department of English 2013-11-18 Diana Mafe, assistant professor of English, publishes her first book. Diana Mafe, Assistant Professor of English, has published her first book, Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature: Coloring Outside the (Black and White) Lines (Palgrave Macmillan 2013). In this work,…

  • English prof. Diana Mafe pens literary analysis of biracial blacks The Denisonian: Denison University’s student publication since 1857 Granville, Ohio 2013-11-19 Curtis Edmonds, Forum Editor The United States is undoubtedly one of the most–if not the most–racially diverse country in the world, and seven percent of American children born in the last decade were bi-…

  • Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature: Coloring Outside the (Black and White) Lines Palgrave Macmillan November 2013 208 pages 3 illustrations 5.500 x 8.500 inches Hardback ISBN: 978-1-137-36492-0, ISBN10: 1-137-36492-0 Diana Adesola Mafe, Assistant Professor of English Denison University, Granville, Ohio America’s new millennial interest in multiraciality coincides with South Africa’s post-apartheid…

  • Play Could Begin Renaissance For Seminole Nation Culture The Seminole Producer Seminole, Oklahoma 2013-11-13 pages 1-2 Karen Anson, Senior Editor IndianVoices.net contributed to this report A play on the history of the Seminole Nation’s Freedmen is wrapping up in Los Angeles, but those involved hope it’s only the beginning of a movement. The play, “the…

  • The genes that build America The Guardian 2007-07-14 Paul Harris, US Correspondent From the discovery that presidential hopeful Barack Obama is descended from white slave owners to the realisation that the majority of black Americans have European ancestors, a boom in ‘recreational genetics’ is forcing America to redefine its roots. Paul Harris pieces together the…

  • Seeking Participants in a Research Study Examining Multiracial Individuals’ Attitudes Toward Seeking Counseling in the U.S. Wright Institute, Berkeley, California 2013-10-25 Emmanuel Zamora Department of Clinical Psychology My name is Emmanuel Zamora, M.A. and I am a Psy.D. student in the Clinical Psychology program at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA. I am currently working…

  • African Slavery: The New Hollywood Renaissance Our Weekly: Los Angeles 2013-11-14 William Covington, Contributor With the recent release of “12 Years A Slave” and “Django Unchained” and numerous slave genre movies awaiting release, it appears the slavery motif is possibly generating a new African American Renaissance in Hollywood. According to Pasadena screenwriter Herman James, “Hollywood…

  • Now, to answer your first query—whether by our breach of treaties we have not justly exasperated the bordering nations of Indians against us, and drawn upon ourselves the barbarous usage we meet with from them and the French? … I shall only hint at some things which we ought to have done, and which we…