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  • Beginnings of Miscegenation of Whites and Blacks

    Beginnings of Miscegenation of Whites and Blacks The Journal of Negro History Volume 3, Number 4 (October 1918) pages 336-453 Carter G. Woodson, Founder Although science has uprooted the theory, a number of writers are loath to give up the contention that the white race is superior to others, as it is still hoped that…

  • A Rising Voice: Afro-Latin Americans

    A Rising Voice: Afro-Latin Americans Miami Herald 2007-06-10 through 2007-06-24 In this series, the black experience is unveiled through a journey: to Nicaragua, where a quiet but powerful civil and cultural rights movement flickers while in neighboring Honduras, the black Garffuna community fights for cultural survival; to the Dominican Republic where African lineage is not…

  • Interview: Jackie Kay

    Interview: Jackie Kay The Journal Newcastle upon Tyne 2013-03-30 Jackie Kay is about to be read in places most writers never reach. David Whetstone spoke to her. YOU can imagine there are lots of things a writer dreams of – literary prizes, lucrative deals, maybe a film adaptation. But a different accolade has come the…

  • Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective

    Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective Palgrave Macmillan September 2000 186 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches ISBN: 978-0-312-23219-1 ISBN10: 0-312-23219-5 Mark Christian, Professor of African & African American Studies Lehman College, City University of New York Multiracial Identity provides an accessible account of the social construction of racialized groups. Using both primary (in-depth interviews)…

  • The cradle to the grave: Reflections on race thinking

    The cradle to the grave: Reflections on race thinking thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology Volume 115, Number 1 (April 2013) pages 43-57 DOI: 10.1177/0725513612470533 Gerhard Maré, Professor of Sociology University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa Despite a constitutional and oft-stated political commitment to an undefined notion of non-racialism, South Africans continue to operate…

  • The Melanin Millennium: Skin Color as 21st Century International Discourse

    The Melanin Millennium: Skin Color as 21st Century International Discourse Springer 2013 348 pages 32 illustrations Hardcover ISBN 978-94-007-4607-7 eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4608-4 DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4608-4 Edited by: Ronald E. Hall, Professor of Social Work Michigan State University Addresses the issue of skin color in a worldwide context Discusses the introduction of new forms of visual media…

  • Walking a Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured Community of Zimbabwe [Review]

    Walking a Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured Community of Zimbabwe [Review] H-net Reviews H-SAfrica April 2007 Elizabeth Schmidt, Professor of History Loyola University Maryland James Muzondidya. Walking a Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured Community of Zimbabwe. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2005. xviii + 323 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-59221-246-0. Based…

  • Africa in Europe: Studies in Transnational Practice in the Long Twentieth Century

    This volume explores the lives and activities of people of African descent in Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the twenty-first century.

  • Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool

    Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool Princeton University Press 2005 312 pages 6 x 9 ISBN: 978-1-4008-2641-4 Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hunter College of the City University of New York The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its…

  • AfroPoP – A Lot Like You

    AfroPoP – A Lot Like You AfroPoP PBS Video Duration: (00:56:59) Premiere Date: 2013-01-22 Episode Expires: 2013-02-22 Eliaichi Kimaro, Director A bi-racial filmmaker returns to her father’s home tribe on Mount Kilomanjaro. Premieres January 22nd on the WORLD Channel. In this award-winning and very personal documentary a young woman probes her interracial roots to find…