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  • Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical

    Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical Oxford University Press October 2012 328 pages ISBN13: 9780199759378; ISBN10: 0199759375 Todd Decker, Assistant Professor, Musicology Washington University in St. Louis Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the full story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway history. Drawing…

  • Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective

    Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective Palgrave Macmillan September 2000 186 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches ISBN: 978-0-312-23219-1 ISBN10: 0-312-23219-5 Mark Christian, Professor of African & African American Studies Lehman College, City University of New York Multiracial Identity provides an accessible account of the social construction of racialized groups. Using both primary (in-depth interviews)…

  • kiyâm

    kiyâm Athabasca University Press May 2012 144 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-926836-69-0 eBook (PDF) ISBN: 978-1-926836-70-6 eBook (EPub) ISBN: 978-1-926836-71-3 Naomi McIlwraith Through poems that move between the two languages, McIlwraith explores the beauty of the intersection between nêhiyawêwin, the Plains Cree language, and English, âkayâsîmowin. Written to honour her father’s facility in nêhiyawêwin and her…

  • Mixed Race Identities

    This book investigates the ethnic and racial options exercised by young mixed race people in higher education in Britain, and it is the first to explore the identifications and experiences of various types of mixed race individuals. It reveals the diverse ways in which these young people identify and experience their mixed status, the complex…

  • Mixing Up the Game: Social and Historical Contours of Black Mixed Heritage Players in British Football

    Mixing Up the Game: Social and Historical Contours of Black Mixed Heritage Players in British Football Mark Christian, Professor & Chair of African & African American Studies Lehman College, City University of New York pages 131-144 in the volume Race, Ethnicity and Football: Persisting Debates and Emergent Issues Routledge 2011-03-29 288 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-88205-7…

  • Afro-Germans and the Problems of Cultural Location

    Afro-Germans and the Problems of Cultural Location Molefi Kete Asante, Professor of African American Studies Temple University The African German Experience: Critical Essays Greenwood Publishing 1997 edited by Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay The leitmotif of the German society in regards to African people has a lot to do with the way Germans approach racial difference. Thus,…

  • Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

    Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands James Blackwood Paternoster Row 1857 198 pages Mary Seacole (1805-1881) Mary Seacole was born a free black woman in Jamaica in the early nineteenth century. In her long and varied life, she travelled in Central America, Russia, and Europe; found work as an inn-keeper and as a…

  • The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium

    “The Souls of Mixed Folk” examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine new millennial aesthetics and politics. Focusing on black-white mixes, Elam analyzes expressive works—novels, drama, graphic narrative, late-night television, art installations—as artistic rejoinders to the perception that post-Civil Rights politics are bereft and post-Black art is apolitical.

  • In Their Parents’ Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees

    Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda’s In “Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees” Tell Their Stories shared the experiences of twenty-four black and biracial children who had been adopted into white families in the late 1960s and 70s. The book has since become a standard resource for families and practitioners, and now, in this sequel,…

  • In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories

    In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories Columbia University Press April 2000 480 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-231-11829-3 Rita J. Simon, University Professor Emerita Department of Justice, Law and Society American University, Washington, D.C. Rhonda M. Roorda   Nearly forty years after researchers first sought to determine the effects, if any, on children adopted…