Category: Anthropology

  • Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance University of Michigan Press 2006 256 pages 6 x 9. 29 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-472-09955-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-472-06955-2 Alicia Arrizón, Professor of Women’s Studies University of California, Riverside Winner of the Outstanding Book Award for 2008 from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Co-winner of the 2007 Modern…

  • IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas Smithsonian Institution 2009 256 pages 6 5/8 x 9 1/2 inches 115 color and black-and-white illustrations ISBN: 978-1-58834-271-3 Twenty-seven passionate essays explore the complex history and contemporary lives of people with a dual heritage that is a little-known part of American culture. Authors from across the Americas share…

  • African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation University of Oklahoma Press 2007 368 pages, 6″ x 9″ Illustrations: 15 color illustrations, 4 maps Hardcover ISBN: 9780806138152 Paperback ISBN: 9780806168951 Gary Zellar, Assistant Professor of History University of Saskatchewan A narrative history of the African Creek community Among the Creeks, they were known as Estelvste—black people—and…

  • Personal passion fuels Smithsonian exhibit San Francisco State University News 2010-02-12 Denize Springer The search for identity is particularly complex for Americans of both African and Native American heritage, according to Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies Robert Keith Collins. Of Choctaw and African American descent, Collins has turned a personal passion into a career.…

  • CCIE presents Cedar & Bamboo – Film Première and Panel Discussion University of British Columbia, Point Grey Campus UBC First Nations Longhouse Thursday, 2010-10-14, 12:00-14:30 (Local Time) Sponsored by the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education (CCIE). There are numerous First Nations in what is now British Columbia and Chinese people arrived on BC’s shores…

  • Discovering an unexpected compatibility, Punjabis married women of Mexican descent and these alliances inspired others as the men introduced their bachelor friends to the sisters and friends of their wives. These biethnic families developed an identity as “Hindus” but also as Americans.

  • Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920 University of Chicago Press 2005 224 pages 10 halftones  6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 9780226532424 Paper ISBN: 9780226532431 E-book ISBN: 9780226532523 Pablo Mitchell, Eric and Jane Nord Associate Professor of History and Comparative American Studies Oberlin College With the arrival of the transcontinental railroad…

  • The author explores how Africans in America internalized the negative images created of them by the European world, and how internalized racism has worked to fracture African American unity and thereby dilute inchoate efforts toward liberation.

  • Searching for the authentic Red-Black self: Depictions of African-Native subjectivity in literature, visual art, and film University of California, Berkeley 2005 235 pages AAT 3186996 ISBN: 9780542292071 Sarita Nyasha Cannon, Associate Professor of English San Francisco State University In this dissertation, I explore representations of a largely invisible multiracial group: people of Native American and…

  • La China Poblana and Other Constructions of Asian Latinos/as Clave: Counterdisciplinary Notes on Race, Power & the State A Project of LatCrit Inc. and Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico Summer 2006 22 pages Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Professor of History, and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Brown University She…