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  • The Flemish Bastard and the Former Indians: Métis and Identity in Seventeenth-Century New York

    The Flemish Bastard and the Former Indians: Métis and Identity in Seventeenth-Century New York The American Indian Quarterly Volume 34, Number 1 (Winter 2010) pages 83-108 E-ISSN: 1534-1828 Print ISSN: 0095-182X DOI: 10.1353/aiq.0.0087 Tom Arne Midtrød, Professor of History University of Iowa In 1709 the English Board of Trade recommended the settlement of three thousand…

  • Indians and Mestizos: Identity and Urban Popular Culture in Andean Peru

    Indians and Mestizos: Identity and Urban Popular Culture in Andean Peru Journal of Southern African Studies Volume 26, Issue 2 (June 2000) pages 239 – 253 DOI: 10.1080/03057070050010093 Fiona Wilson The article begins with a discussion of the chronology of conquest and liberation in Peru and reflects on the changing meanings given to the racial…

  • The Complexities of the Visible: Mexican Women’s Experiences of Racism, Mestizaje and National Identity

    The Complexities of the Visible: Mexican Women’s Experiences of Racism, Mestizaje and National Identity Goldsmiths College, University of London 2006 Monica Moreno Figueroa, Lecturer in Sociology Newcastle University, United Kingdom The thesis analyses the contemporary practices of racism in relation to discourses of mestizaje in Mexico. It focuses on the qualities of women’s experiences of…

  • “Assimilating the Primitive”: Parallel Dialogues on Racial Miscegenation in Revolutionary Mexico

    “Assimilating the Primitive”: Parallel Dialogues on Racial Miscegenation in Revolutionary Mexico Peter Lang Publishing Group 2004 179 pages, 4 tables Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8204-6322-3 Kelley R. Swarthout, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish Colgate University, New York This book examines the Mexican nationalist rhetoric that promoted race mixing as a cultural ideal, placing it within its broader…

  • The Monochrome Society: Americanness and the unsung agreement across racial lines

    The Monochrome Society: Americanness and the unsung agreement across racial lines Policy Review Hoover Institution Stanford University Feburary & March 2001 Amitai Etzioni Various demographers and other social scientists have been predicting for years that the end of the white majority in the United States is near, and that there will be a majority of…

  • How to really be accurate on ‘race’ on the Census

    How to really be accurate on ‘race’ on the Census The American Thinker 2010-03-17 James Lewis Not many people like to fill in the “race” category on the Census, because we know perfectly well that it comes from the Left, which has found another way to slice and dice the American people, to set us…

  • My People Will Sleep for One Hundred Years: Story of a Métis Self

    My People Will Sleep for One Hundred Years: Story of a Métis Self University of Victoria 2004 106 pages Sylvia Rae Cottell, B.F.A. Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies…

  • Metis Identity Creation and Tactical Responses to Oppression and Racism

    Metis Identity Creation and Tactical Responses to Oppression and Racism Variegations Journal University of Victoria, Canada Volume 2 (2005) ISSN: 1708-9840 Cathy Richardson Indigenous Governance University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada As one of Canada’s founding Aboriginal people (Department of Justice Canada, 1982), the Metis exist at the periphery of the Canadian historical, cultural and social…

  • Race and Genetics: Attempts to Define the Relationship

    Race and Genetics: Attempts to Define the Relationship BioSocieties Volume 2, Issue 2 (June 2007) pages 221-237 DOI: 10.1017/S1745855207005625 Duana Fullwiley, Associate Professor Anthropology Stanford University Many researchers working in the field of human genetics in the United States have been caught between two seemingly competing messages with regard to racial categories and genetic difference. As…

  • Race – The Power of an Illusion

    Race – The Power of an Illusion California Newsreel – Film and video for social change since 1968 2003 3 Episodes, 56 minutes each DVD and VHS The division of the world’s peoples into distinct groups – “red,” “black,” “white” or “yellow” peoples – has became so deeply imbedded in our psyches, so widely accepted, many…