Category: United States

  • Esther J. Cepeda: Debate grows over Hispanics and the 2020 Census San Jose Mercury News San Jose, California 2013-09-07 Esther J. Cepeda, Columnist The Washington Post CHICAGO—A debate is raging about whether the U.S. Census Bureau should offer Hispanics the option of identifying themselves as a separate race in the 2020 count. But let’s instead…

  • Vietnam Legacy: Finding G.I. Fathers, and Children Left Behind The New York Times 2013-09-16 James Dao, Military and Veterans Affairs Reporter SALTILLO, Miss. — Soon after he departed Vietnam in 1970, Specialist James Copeland received a letter from his Vietnamese girlfriend. She was pregnant, she wrote, and he was the father. He re-enlisted, hoping to…

  • SO224: The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity London School of Economics 2013/2014 session Helen Kim The course provides an introduction to theoretical, historical and contemporary debates around race, racism and ethnicity. It firstly explores the main theoretical perspectives which have been used to analyse racial and ethnic relations, in a historical and contemporary framework. It…

  • AAAS 348 (Fall 2013): Class, Race, and Gender—“Hapas, Hafus, Mestizos, and Muggles” California State University, Los Angeles Asian and Asian American Studies Program Fall 2013 Michelle Har Kim HAPA (from the Hawai‘ian Dictionary, Māmaka Kaiao) Portion, fragment, part, fraction, installment; to be partial, less. (Eng. half) Cf. hapahā, hapalua, etc. Ka ’ike hapa, limited knowledge.…

  • Liminality in the works: The novels of Charles Chesnutt University of Massachusetts, Amherst September 1996 154 pages Publication Number: AAT 9709591 ISBN: 9780591169812 Susan Jane Doyle Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Charles Chesnutt is perhaps best…

  • Identity Politics, in a Brand-New Form The New York Times 2013-09-14 Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent ARGUABLY, New York’s identity politics peaked in 1945. That year, William O’Dwyer, the Democratic Party machine’s mayoral favorite, was Irish and from Brooklyn. Lazarus Joseph, the candidate for comptroller, was Jewish and from the Bronx. Party leaders balanced their…

  • Kinship and Identity: Mixed Bloods in Urban Indian Communities American Indian Culture and Research Journal ISSN 0161-6463 (Print) Volume 23, Number 2 (1999) Pages 73-89 Susan Applegate Krouse [Ziigwam Nibi Kwe (Spring Water Woman) Haslett] (1955-2010), Associate Professor of Anthropology Michigan State University INTRODUCTION American Indians have become an increasingly urban population in the twentieth…

  • “Squaw Men,” “Half-Breeds,” and Amalgamators: Late Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Attitudes Toward Indian-White Race-Mixing American Indian Culture and Research Journal Volume 15, Number 3 (1991) David D. Smits, Professor of History The College of New Jersey Indian-white biological amalgamation, whether in or out of wedlock, is a subject well calculated to evoke spirited conceptions and feelings; certainly,…

  • This groundbreaking book is at once a general history and a celebration of Tejanas’ contributions to Texas over three centuries

  • The Plum Thicket University Press of Kentucky 1996-04-11 (Originally published in 1954) 284 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8131-1947-2 (out of print) Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8131-0859-9 Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979) Janice Holt Giles had a life before her marriage and writing career in Kentucky. Born in Altus, Arkansas, Giles spent many childhood summers visiting her grandparents there. After…