Category: Papers/Presentations

  • Mixed Race in the Age of Obama University of Chicago Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC) International House, Home Room 1414 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 2010-03-05, 09:00 to 18:00 CST (Local Time) The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of  Chicago presents a daylong…

  • Theatrical Medicine: Aboriginal performance, ritual and commemoration The Medicine Project 2008-03-25 Michelle La Flamme Dr. Michelle La Flamme is an Afro-NDN performer, activist and educator who completed a Ph.D. at UBC [University of British Columbia] in English literature (May 2006). In her other life, she is an avid performer and has worked in film and…

  • Mixed Messages [Theatrical Play] Written by Michelle La Flamme University of British Columbia with help from Minelle Mahtani, Associate Professor of Geography and Planning University of Toronto Burcu Ozdemir Mixed Messages is a satirical look at the exclusive rules for membership in academic spaces and a jab at racial identity politics in the “mixed race”…

  • Language and the Politics of Ethnicity in the Caribbean Center for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean York University, Toronto, Ontario The Fourth Annual Jagan Lecture Presented at York University on 2002-03-02 George Lamming, Visiting Professor Brown University The Jagan Lectures commemorate the life and vision of the late Dr. Cheddi Jagan, Caribbean thinker,…

  • Legal Transplants: Slavery and the Civil Law in Louisiana University of Southern California Legal Studies Working Paper Series Working Paper 32 May 2009 37 pages Ariela J. Gross, Professor of Law and History University of Southern California Law School Can Louisiana tell us something about civil law vs. common law regimes of slavery? What can…

  • African Americans and National Identities in Central America Rina Cáceres, Professor of Diaspora Studies Program at the Centro de Investigationes Historicas de America Central Universidad de Costa Rica Lowell Gudmundson, Professor of Latin American Studies and History Mount Holyoke University Mauricio Meléndez An interdisciplinary, multinational research program to reconceptualize and document, both visually and textually,…

  • Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880 (Working Paper) 33 pages Updated 2008-07-03 Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Much of the literature within sociology regarding mixed-race populations focuses on contemporary issues and dynamics, often overlooking a…

  • Bi-Ethnic Identity: Converging Conversations Language Literacy & Culture Review University of Maryland, Baltimore County 2009 Anissa Sorokin Univerisity of Maryland This paper examines ethnic identity, with a focus on bi-ethnic identity, from academic, creative non-fiction, and personal perspectives. Social psychological models of ethnic identity development, along with salient aspects of ethnic identity, are explored and…

  • Impacts of Multiple Race Reporting on Rural Health Policy and Data Analysis Working Paper No. 73 Working Paper Series North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2002-05-01 39 pages Randy Randolph, M.R.P. Rebecca Slifkin, Ph.D. Lynn Whitener,…

  • Becoming Mexican Across the Pacific: The Expulsion of Mexican Chinese Families from Mexico to China and Diasporic Imaginings of a Mexican Homeland, 1930s–60s American Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting Friday, 2010-01-10 11:40 PST (Local Time) San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina Torrey 3 (Marriott) San Diego, California Julia María Schiavone Camacho, Assistant Professor of History…