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  • New Christians/’New Whites’: Sephardic Jews, Free People of Color, and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue, 1760-1789

    New Christians/’New Whites’: Sephardic Jews, Free People of Color, and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue, 1760-1789 Chapter (pages 314-332) in: The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800 Berghahn Books 2001 592 pages Pb ISBN 978-1-57181-430-2; Hb ISBN 978-1-57181-153-0 Edited by: Paolo Bernardini and Norman Fiering Chapter Author: John D. Garrigus, Associate Professor…

  • Métis/Mulâtre, Mulato, Mulatto, Negro, Moreno, Mundele Kaki, Black,… The Wanderings and Meanderings of Identities

    Métis/Mulâtre, Mulato, Mulatto, Negro, Moreno, Mundele Kaki, Black,… The Wanderings and Meanderings of Identities Chapter in: Problematizing Blackness: Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States Routledge 2003-09-30 240 pages Edited by Jean Muteba Rahier, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African & African Diaspora Studies Florida International University Percey C. Hintzen, Professor of African…

  • Mixed Indians, Caboclos and Curibocas: Historical Analysis of a Process of Miscegenation; Rio Negro (Brazil), 18th and 19th Centuries

    Mixed Indians, Caboclos and Curibocas: Historical Analysis of a Process of Miscegenation; Rio Negro (Brazil), 18th and 19th Centuries Chapter in: Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment (2009) Springer Part I pages 55-68 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9283-1_4 Décio de Alencar Guzmán The author analyses the process of mixing (mestiçagem) in the Rio Negro region during the…

  • The Sociological Implications of Demographic Diversity

    Any consideration of the relevance to the United Kingdom of Critical Race Theory should take account of the special factors in the USA that stimulated and shaped the character of the movement. It should also acknowledge the distinction between social theory and social practice. Social practice has usually to be considered within the frameworks of…

  • Introduction: Re-imagining coloured identities in post-Apartheid South Africa

    Introduction: Re-imagining coloured identities in post-Apartheid South Africa Introduction to: Coloured by History, Shaped by Place: New Perspectives on Coloured Identities in Cape Town Kwela Books 2001 320 pages ISBN-10: 0795701365 ISBN-13: 978-0795701368 Edited by: Zimitri Erasmus, Senior Lecturer in Sociology University of Cape Town Introduction by: Zimitri Erasmus, Senior Lecturer in Sociology University of…

  • Race, the Jamaican Body and Eugenics/Genomics: An Autobiographic Mediation

    Race, the Jamaican Body and Eugenics/Genomics: An Autobiographic Mediation Auto/Biography and Mediation 2010 pages 39-55 Edited by: Alfred Hornung, Professor of English and American Studies Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Written by: Eve Hawthorne, Professor of History Howard University Paul Vanouse, Associate Professor of Visual Studies The State University of New York, Buffalo Caribbean bodies are…

  • Chapter One: Barbara Jordan: American Hero

    Chapter One: Barbara Jordan: American Hero New York Times 1998-12-13 Mary Beth Rogers Mary Beth Rogers, Barbara Jordan: American Hero, (New York: Bantam, 1998). BARBARA CHARLINE JORDAN was born February 21, 1936, the third daughter and last child of Benjamin Meredith and Arlyne Patten Jordan. The fortunes of Ben and Arlyne were good enough to…

  • Mitsawokett to Bloomsbury: Archaeology and History of a Native-American Descendant Community in Central Delaware

    Mitsawokett to Bloomsbury: Archaeology and History of a Native-American Descendant Community in Central Delaware Chapter 5. A Larger Ethnic Community 2008 383 pages Delaware Department of Transportation Project 88-110-01 Federal Highway Administration Project F-NH-1003(13) Delaware Department of Transportation Archæological Series Number 154 Carolann Wicks, Secretary Original and redraft prepared by Edward F. Heite and Cara L.…

  • Interpreting the Census: The Elasticity of Whiteness and the Depoliticization of Race

    Interpreting the Census: The Elasticity of Whiteness and the Depoliticization of Race  2007 pages 155-170  Katya Gibel Mevorach, Associate Professor of Anthropology Grinnell College  From the anthology:  Racial Liberalism and the Politics of Urban America Michigan State University Press 2007 280 pages 6 ” x 9 ” ISBN: 0-87013-669-0, 978-0-87013-669-6  Edited by:  Curtis Stokes, Professor…

  • Biracial Americans: The Advantages of White Blood

    Biracial Americans: The Advantages of White Blood Chapter 8 of An Historical Analysis of Skin Color Discrimination in America Springer 2010 200 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5504-3 Chapter: pages 109-126 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5505-0_8 Ronald E. Hall, Professor of Social Work Michigan State University Similar to that of Native Americans, the genesis of victim-group discrimination for biracial Americans…