Category: United States

  • I Do Choose To Run: Personal boxes and the ethics of race The Stanford Daily 2012-04-09 Miles Unterreiner In an eloquently argued New York Times Sunday Review article on March 16th, entitled “As Black as We Wish to Be,” author Thomas Chatterton Williams advances a provocative and thought-provoking argument: “mixed-race blacks have an ethical obligation…

  • Author Explores Racial Mixing In New Historical Novel VPR News Vermont Public Radio 2012-03-14 Neal Charnoff, Reporter; Local Host All Things Considered We last heard from writer Lisa Alther in 2007, when she spoke with VPR’s Neal Charnoff about her memoir, Kinfolks. Alther has returned to fiction in a big way with her epic historical…

  • A Heritage Celebration: Event recognizes both Hispanic and Native American roots with symposium and several performances San Marcos Daily Record San Marcos, Texas 2011-08-12 San Marcos — San Marcos will experience a unique, two-in-one heritage celebration in a combination of two nationally recognized heritage months — Hispanic and Native American — on Saturday, Oct. 1…

  • A Mestizaje of Epistemologies in American Indian Stories and Ceremony Nakum Volume 2.1 (2011) 49 paragraphs Margaret Cantú-Sánchez Department of English University of Texas, San Antonio A close examination of Native American literature reveals that some Native Americans find it difficult to retain ties to their cultural epistemologies once introduced to the assimilationist pedagogies of…

  • A Mixture of Culturas: The New Mestiza CHST 404 – Chicana Feminisms (Spring 2012) 2012-04-07 Erika Meza Loyola Marymount University Mestizaje is commonly known as the mixture of the European race with the Indians living in the Americas, something that began very long ago when the Americas were first being conquered. According to anthropologists on…

  • Meet The Bloggers: Chris Terry Marginalia: The Graduate Blog Columbia College Chicago 2012 Tell us a little bit about what you were doing before you came to Columbia. Words are a big deal in my family. My mother was a children’s librarian who always encouraged me to read, which backfired when I would spell things…

  • Historical trauma: The impact of colonial racism on contemporary relations between African Americans and Mexican immigrants Colorado State University Spring 2011 114 pages Publication Number: AAT 1492454 ISBN: 9781124645148 Noah M. Wright Submitted by Noah M. Wright Department of Ethnic Studies In partial fulfillment of the requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts Colorado…

  • ‘It gives me gooseflesh’: Remarkable find in South Side attic Chicago Sun-Times 2012-03-10 Kim Janssen, Staff Reporter Richard Theodore Greener (1844-1922), Harvard Class of 1870 It wasn’t much more than a ghost house by the time Rufus McDonald got the call. The front door of the abandoned home near 75th and Sangamon was unlocked and…

  • Letters from a Planter’s Daughter: Understanding Freedom and Independence in the Life of Susanna Townsend (1853-1869) The University of Alabama McNair Journal Volume 12  (Spring 2012) pages 145-174 R. Isabela Morales Wealthy Alabama cotton planter Samuel Townsend had already fathered eight children by the time Susanna Townsend was born in 1853—her mother, like all the…

  • Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization LSU Press September 1992 352 pages 6.00 x 9.00 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780807117743 Edited by: Arnold R. Hirsch, University Research Professor of History University of New Orleans Joseph Logsdon This collection of six original essays explores the peculiar ethnic composition and history of New Orleans, which the authors persuasively…