Category: Anthropology

  • Mestizaje and the Mexican Mestizo Self: No hay Sangre Negra, so there is no Blackness Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal Volume 15, Number 2 (Spring 2006) Pages 199-234 Taunya Lovell Banks, Jacob A. France Professor of Equality Jurisprudence and Francis & Harriet Iglehart Research Professor of Law University of Maryland School of Law Many legal…

  • The African Presence in Mexico A Symposium Presented by Callaloo – A Journal of African Diapora Arts and Letters and The Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University 2008-10-22 through 2008-10-23 Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Sessions The Road to Blackness: A Search for Identity Within the Afro-Mexican Community (audio, photographs) Slavery and Freedom…

  • In the late 1700s the roots of cowboy culture arose out of the Carolinas. These men and women were not the typical white ranchers that would be depicted in later stories and films. Instead they were a group of “tri-racial isolates.”

  • Written Out of History Pomona College Magazine Pomona College, Claremont, California Fall 2002 Volume 39, Number 1 Michael Balchunas Spurred by a glimpse of family history, Professor Sid Lemelle is bringing to light a little-known aspect of the African Diaspora. When the new people moved in, all eyes were upon them. There were comments about…

  • The Impossibility of Return: Black Women’s Migrations to Africa Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 27, Number 2, 2006 pages 54-86 E-ISSN: 1536-0334 Print ISSN: 0160-9009 DOI: 10.1353/fro.2007.0009 Piper Kendrix-Williams, Professor of African-American Studies The College of New Jersey I was on an international flight, traveling from New York to Paris, when an older…

  • Emerging whole from Native-Canadian relations: mixed ancestry narratives: a thesis University of British Columbia 1999-04-25 Dawn Marsden Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in the Department of Educational Stuides. After hundreds of years of contact, the relationships between the people of Native Nations and the Canadian Nation…

  • Race: Social Fact, Biological Fiction Focus on Adoption Volume 17, Number 3 June/July 2009 pages 16-17 Andrew Martindale, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of British Columbia Andrew Martindale, an adoptive parent, and assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, explains that the concept of race is man-made and, though…

  • 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,…

  • PAGE ONE — No Biological Basis For Race, Scientists Say / Distinctions prove to be skin deep San Fransisco Gate Chronicle 1998-02-23 Charles Petit, Chronicle Science Writer This is one of a series of articles in “About Race,” a year-long public journalism project in which The Chronicle, KRON-TV, BayTV and KQED-FM are examining various aspects…

  • Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921 University of British Columbia Press 2009-05-15 288 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780774816335 Paperback ISBN: 9780774816342 Renisa Mawani, Associate Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia Contemporary discussions of multiculturalism and pluralism remain politically charged in former settler societies. Colonial Proximities historicizes these contestations by illustrating…