Category: Articles

  • Seeing in color – art and mixed race Laura Kina’s Art Blog 2011-07-06 Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University I was reviewing an Asian American marketing book (Many Cultures One Market by Robert Kumaki and Jack Moran) and getting my toenails painted dark fuchsia pink, just…

  • Pushing Boundaries, Mixed-Race Artists Gain Notice The New York Times 2011-07-05 Felicia R. Lee Heidi Durrow, left, and Fanshen Cox, the co-producers of the Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival. (Ann Johansson for The New York Times) Note from Steven F. Riley: Please make sure to view the many reader comments for the article here.…

  • Puerto Rico: Afro-Caribbean and Taíno Identity Repeating Islands: News and commentary on Caribbean culture, literature, and the arts 2011-06-26 Ivette Romero-Cesareo, Professor of Spanish and Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York Note from Steven F. Riley:  [The number of 2010 census repondents from Puerto Rico identifiying as two or more races…

  • But there was something different about this tribe, the Tlaxcala, and when the music ceased and the chatter resumed, the difference became clear: They spoke exclusively Spanish.

  • Virginia’s Attempt to Adjust the Color Problem The American Journal of Public Health Volume 15, Number 2 (1925) pages 111-115 W. A. Plecker, M.D., Fellow A.P.H.A. State Registrar of Vital Statistics, Richmond, Virginia Read at the joint session of the Public Health Administration and Vital Statistics Sections of the American Public Health Association at the…

  • D’Eichthal and Urbain’s Lettres sur la race noire et la race blanche: Race, Gender, and Reconciliation after Slave Emancipation Nineteenth-Century French Studies Volume 39, Numbers 3 & 4 (Spring-Summer 2011) pages 240-258 E-ISSN: 1536-0172 Print ISSN: 0146-7891 Naomi J. Andrews, Assistant Professor of History Santa Clara University This article is a close reading of Gustave…

  • Who Belongs to Whom?: Codes, Property, and Ownership in Madame Charles Reybaud’s “Les Épaves” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Volume 39, Numbers 3 & 4 (Spring-Summer 2011) pages 229-239 E-ISSN: 1536-0172 Print ISSN: 0146-7891 Molly Krueger Enz, Assistant Professor of French South Dakota State University French Romantic writer Madame Charles Reybaud explores the coupling of gender and…

  • The Caste Taboo in William Faulkner’s “Elly” and “Mountain Victory” EuroAmerica: A Journal of European and American Studies Volume 25, Number 3 (September 1995) pages 1-24 Online ISSN:1991-7864; Print ISSN: 1021-3058   Wen-ching Ho Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Simca, Republic of China Miscegenation is “the ultimate horror.” —Flannery O’Connor, Everything That Rises Must…

  • Rights of passage – the coming of the ‘wild west’ Constructs of identity and their effects upon Indigenous people Counselling, Psychotherapy, and Health Volume 3, Issue 2 (2007), Indigenous Special Issue pages 39-45 Michael Red Shirt Semchison M.Ed.Studies; Gr.Cert.Ed.[HE] University of Queensland, Australia Introduction “We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful…

  • The Cuffee Collaboration: CELS students, faculty reach out to help charter school The College of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Rhode Island CELS News Site 2009-10-27 Rudi Hempe, CELS News Editor Spread over two inner city locations, one a former maintenance garage and the other one rented, the Paul Cuffee School in Providence is…