Category: Articles

  • Rev. Dr. Talmage preached a patriotic sermon yesterday morning. His subject was: “Should America, be Reserved for Americans?” and he answered it in the most anti-Know Nothing style. A very large audience listened. The text was: “And hath made of one blood all nation.” The preacher spoke in part as follows:

  • United States of the United Races – Great Resource for Storytellers Mixed Roots Stories: Strengthening and celebrating diverse Mixed communities through the power of sharing stories 2013-10-02 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Playwright, Producer, Actress, Educator Greg Carter, The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of Racial Mixing (New York: New York University Press,…

  • Marginalizing Métis histories through Treaty Territory Acknowledgment Big M Musings 2013-10-03 Chris Andersen, Research and Associate Professor of Native Studies University of Alberta In the last decade or so, it has become a fairly accepted practice in Indigenous Studies circles for scholars presenting on Indigenous issues to begin their talks with some form of acknowledgment…

  • Double the trouble, twice the joy for Japan’s hāfu The Japan Times 2013-10-03 Kaori Shoji, Special To The Japan Times Until about 10 years ago, the standard Japanese image of kids of mixed blood was that they were 1) gorgeous, 2) rich and 3) able to live in Japan with none of the kinks and…

  • Descendants of Norwich slave, owner meet Norwich Bulletin Norwich, Connecticut 2012-03-29 Adam Benson Norwich, Conn.—When descendants of Norwich slave Guy Drock and the man who owned him met  for the first time Thursday, they weren’t sure what would happen. Grant Hayter-Menzies’ fifth-generation great-grandfather, Capt. Benejah Bushnell, owned Drock for a decade in the mid-1700s in…

  • Owning white privilege and then what? Transracial Parenting: A Race Together 2013-04-09 Rachel Dangermond My own brand of narrow vision at work here: I’m not a big coffee shop person; I go rarely and usually when I have a deadline that I have put off until I can’t bear it anymore and I need a…

  • Paint the White House Black: Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in America [Review] Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews Volume 42, Number 5 (September 2013) page 763 DOI: 10.1177/0094306113499714e Paint the White House Black: Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in America, by Michael P. Jeffries. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013.…

  • Film Review: Multiracial Identity Teaching Sociology Volume 41, Number 4 (October 2013) pages 397-399 DOI: 10.1177/0092055X13496205 Sara McDonough Department of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Multiracial Identity. 77 minutes. 2010. Brian Chinhema , director. Bullfrog Films. PO Box 149, Oley, PA…

  • “I’ve Never Heard of the Métis People”: The Politics of Naming, Racialization, and the Disregard for Aboriginal Canadians ActiveHistory.ca 2012-10-18 Crystal Fraser University of Alberta Mike Commito McMaster University The controversial selection of a hamburger name by a Toronto restaurant had customers and critics raising their eyebrows this past August. Holy Chuck Burgers, located on…

  • Antlers, glass mark exhibit of California sculptor in College Park Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online Gaithersburg, Maryland 2013-09-12 Virginia Terhune, Staff writer Always looking for new materials, Los Angeles sculptor Alison Saar heard that an organization she knew needed to sell a pile of antlers cast off by deer in Montana. So she bought 200…