Category: Africa

  • The article discusses how and under which circumstances mixed children become visible in Switzerland and Morocco using a comparative and intersectional approach to mixedness. Based on 23 biographical narrative interviews, I analyze three situations of stigmatization: racialization, language practices and othering due to religious affiliation.

  • Special Issue “Multiracial Identities and Experiences in/under White Supremacy” Social SciencesVolume 11, Number 2, Special Issue “Multiracial Identities and Experiences in/under White Supremacy”Published 2022-02-21 Guest Editors: David L. Brunsma, Professor of SociologyVirginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Jennifer Sims, Assistant Professor of SociologyUniversity of Alabama, Huntsville Dear Colleagues, Social scientific scholarship on Multiracial experiences and processes of…

  • Who’s Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race Harvard University Press 2022-03-22 320 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 21 photos, 1 table Hardcover ISBN: 9780674244269 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alfonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor; Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Andrew…

  • Belonging is Everything: Talking with Georgina Lawton The Rumpus 2021-03-01 Donna Hemans “My teacher’s methods were most definitely trash, but that day she taught me a valuable lesson about race,” Georgina Lawton writes in her memoir Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth about Where I Belong. “She let me know that whiteness…

  • Joseph Jenkins Roberts: A Love for Liberia StMU Research Scholars: Featuring Scholarly Research, Writing, and Media at St. Mary’s University St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas 2020-02-17 Antonio Holverstott Portrait of Joseph Jenkins Roberts taken by Augustus McCarthy circa 1840-1860 | Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. In 1846, the governor of the African colony of Liberia,…

  • What happens when the baby they buried comes back?

  • A short, intense and profoundly moving debut novel about race, identity, sex and death – from one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35

  • NPR’s Scott Simon speaks to Nadia Owusu about her memoir, Aftershocks.

  • In this compelling memoir of growing up different, Ijoma Mangold, today one of Germany’s best literary critics, remembers his youth in 1970s Heidelberg and the new Federal Republic, and momentous visits in early adulthood to the USA and Nigeria.

  • Illuminating her inner journey growing up mixed-race in Britain, Esua Jane Goldsmith’s unique memoir exposes the isolation and ambiguities that often come with being ‘an only’.