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  • Claude Haffner: “Black Here, White There” | “Footprints of My Other”

    Claude Haffner: “Black Here, White There” | “Footprints of My Other” African Women in Cinema Blog 2012-03-15 Beti Ellerson, Director/Directrice Centre for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema Interview with Claude Haffner and translation from French by Beti Ellerson, March 2012. An interview with Franco-Congolese filmmaker Claude Haffner by Beti Ellerson regarding…

  • A Conversation with Dr. Yaba Blay: Saturday 30th August

    A Conversation with Dr. Yaba Blay: Saturday 30th August Africa Women’s Development Fund Plot Number 78, AWDF House Ambassadorial Enclave East Legon, Accra, Ghana 2014-08-28 You’re invited to a conversation with Dr. Yaba Blay on Saturday 30th August from 5pm-7pm at the AWDF resource centre in East Legon, Accra. Dr. Blay is a professor, producer,…

  • Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach

    Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach Oxford University Press 2014-08-01 528 pages 7-1/2 x 9-1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780199920013 Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach engages students in critical questions related to racial dynamics in the U.S. and around the world. Written in accessible,…

  • Negotiating the Racial Boundaries of Khōjā Caste Membership in Late Nineteenth-Century Colonial Zanzibar (1878–1899)

    Negotiating the Racial Boundaries of Khōjā Caste Membership in Late Nineteenth-Century Colonial Zanzibar (1878–1899) Journal of Africana Religions Volume 2, Number 3, 2014 pages 297-316 DOI: 10.1353/oar.2014.0020 Iqbal Akhtar, Professor of Religious Studies and Islamic Studies Florida International University This article explores late nineteenth-century identity formation and caste boundaries among the Khōjā of colonial Zanzibar.…

  • Global Mixed Race

    Global Mixed Race New York University Press March 2014 357 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780814770733 Paper ISBN: 9780814789155 Edited by: Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain, Senior Lecturer National University of Ireland, Maynooth Stephen Small, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley Minelle Mahtani, Associate Professor in the Department of Human Geography and the Program in…

  • The problem with sub-Saharan Africa and DNA analysis tools

    The problem with sub-Saharan Africa and DNA analysis tools Genealogy Adventures 2014-07-08 Brian Sheffey This is the first post in a series that covers issues I’ve experienced with reporting of sub-Saharan African results in DNA analysis. This series of posts will have a particular emphasis on DNA testing for African Americans. Over the next series…

  • Afro-Chinese marriages boom in Guangzhou: but will it be ’til death do us part’?

    Afro-Chinese marriages boom in Guangzhou: but will it be ’til death do us part’? South China Morning Post Magazine South China Morning Post Hong Kong, China 2014-06-01 Jenni Marsh, Assistant Editor Jennifer Tsang and Eman Okonkwo at their wedding in Guangzhou in April. Photo: Jenni Marsh Guangzhou is witnessing many Afro-Chinese marriages, but the mainland’s…

  • JS-44.12: A Global Look at Mixed Marriage

    JS-44.12: A Global Look at Mixed Marriage XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology: Facing an Unequal Word: Challenges for Global Sociology International Sociological Association Yokohama, Japan 2014-07-13 through 2014-07-19 Wednesday, 2014-07-16, 18:00 JST (Local Time) Room: 315 Erica Chito Childs, Sociology Hunter College, City University of New York Mapping attitudes toward intermarriage—who is and who…

  • After Tiananmen Square, New Lives On A New Continent

    After Tiananmen Square, New Lives On A New Continent Tell Me More National Public Radio 2014-06-04 Michel Martin, Host After the democracy protests were crushed in 1989, many thought China would turn inward. Instead, a million Chinese citizens moved to Africa. Howard French discusses his book China’s Second Continent. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: I’m Michel Martin,…

  • Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century

    Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century University of Virginia Press October 2013 224 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 9780813934884 Paper ISBN: 9780813934891 Ebook ISBN: 9780813934907 Colleen C. O’Brien, Associate Professor of English University of South Carolina, Upstate As in many literatures of the New World grappling with issues…