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  • Interview with Ngozi Onwurah

    Interview with Ngozi Onwurah African Women in Cinema African Literature Association Conference April 1997 East Lansing, Michigan Originally published in Sisters of the Screen: Women of Africa on Film Video and Television. Africa World Press, Trenton, NJ,  2000. In another conversation, we talked about your identity as an African woman filmmaker based in London.  You…

  • IC Documentarians: Incongruities Investigator – Nisma Zaman

    IC Documentarians: Incongruities Investigator – Nisma Zaman Ithica College Quarterly 2006/4 Mbeti Hyess Nisma Zaman ’92 solidified her passion for documentary filmmaking at IC, where she began work on a short 16mm film exploring mixed-race identities. Beyond Black and White went on to debut at the Asian American International Film Festival in 1995 and remains…

  • Misplaced Bodies: Probing Racial and Gender Signifiers in Ngozi Onwurah’s The Body Beautiful

    In her seminal text Femininity, Susan Brownmiller identifies what can simply be termed the mythic proportions of the female body. Idealized, worshiped, ravaged, and reviled-the female body is forever being measured (usually against the unattainable paradigms of a male imagination) and found lacking. The myth of the female body’s inadequacy is crucial to my discussion…

  • Census snapshots: An evolving portrait

    Census snapshots: An evolving portrait Chicago Tribune 2010-03-14 Oscar Avila, Tribune reporter Dahleen Glanton, Tribune reporter Multiracial, gay and immigrant Americans question whether 2010 form captures country’s fast-changing makeup Look in the mirror and what do you see? When the census form arrives in mailboxes this week, the complex answers to that question will help…

  • Miscegenation Facts […From 1879]

    Miscegenation Facts […From 1879] Daily British Colonist Vicoria, British Columbia 1879-10-07 21st Year Page 1, 2nd Column David W. Higgins, Editor and Proprietor The child of colored parents of different tints, such as quadroon and mulatto, or mulatto and black, will be nearer to the tint of the darker parent.  If both parents of the…

  • Metis Identity Creation and Tactical Responses to Oppression and Racism

    Metis Identity Creation and Tactical Responses to Oppression and Racism Variegations Journal University of Victoria, Canada Volume 2 (2005) ISSN: 1708-9840 Cathy Richardson Indigenous Governance University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada As one of Canada’s founding Aboriginal people (Department of Justice Canada, 1982), the Metis exist at the periphery of the Canadian historical, cultural and social…

  • The role of Japanese as a heritage language in constructing ethnic identity among Hapa Japanese Canadian children

    The role of Japanese as a heritage language in constructing ethnic identity among Hapa Japanese Canadian children Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development Volume 30, Issue 1 (February 2009) pages 1-18 DOI: 10.1080/01434630802307874 Hiroko Noro, Professor of Pacific and Asian Studies University of Victoria, Canada Today, Japanese Canadians are marrying outside of their ethnic community…

  • Biracial Sensitive Practice: Expanding Social Services to an Invisible Population

    Biracial Sensitive Practice: Expanding Social Services to an Invisible Population Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment Volume 5, Issue 2 (March 2002) pages 29 – 44 DOI: 10.1300/J137v05n02_03 Ronald E. Hall, Professor of Social Work Michigan State University Although literature acknowledges the existence of a biracial population, there has been minimal discussion of…

  • From Narratives of Miscegenation to Post-Modernist Re-Imagining: Toward a Historiography of Coloured Identity in South Africa

    From Narratives of Miscegenation to Post-Modernist Re-Imagining: Toward a Historiography of Coloured Identity in South Africa African Historical Review Volume 40, Issue 1 (June 2008) pages 77 – 100 DOI: 10.1080/17532520802249472 Mohamed Adhikari, Associate Professor of History University of Cape Town, South Africa This article traces changing interpretations of the nature of Coloured identity and…

  • A White Side of Black Britain: The Concept of Racial Literacy

    A White Side of Black Britain: The Concept of Racial Literacy Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 27, Issue 6 November 2004 pages 878 – 907 DOI: 10.1080/0141987042000268512 France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Opposition to transracial adoption on both sides of the Atlantic, has been based, in part, on the…