Category: United States

  • Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic University Press of Florida 2009-07-05 176 pages 6 x 9 Cloth: ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3374-7, ISBN 10: 0-8130-3374-8 Paper: ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3675-5, ISBN 10: 0-8130-3675-5 Kimberly Eison Simmons, Associate Professor Anthropology & African American Studies University of South Carolina In Latin America and the Caribbean,…

  • In this article, I draw on the experiences of students who participated in the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Program in Spanish Language and Caribbean Studies, in Santiago, Dominican Republic, from 2000 to 2004, to situate the seemingly conflicting racial projects of the Dominican Republic and the United States.

  • As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity University of California Press January 1998 282 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780520210738 edited by William S. Penn, Professor of Creative Writing Michigan State University The thirteen contributors to As We Are Now invite readers to explore with them the untamed territory of race and mixblood identity…

  • Black, White, Light, and Bright: A Narrative of Creole Color Past Narratives/Narratives Past Graduate Conference Stanford University, Stanford, California 2001-02-16 through 2001-02-18 20 pages Christopher N. Matthews, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hofstra University Much of the world of life is made real through the symbolic application of color, shade, hue, and other features of visual…

  • Natasha Trethewey talk Theater Coffman Memorial Union University of Minnesota 300 Washington Avenue SE Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 2011-04-27, 19:30-21:00 CDT (Local Time) Cost: Free Natasha Trethewey, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing Emory University Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey talks about her family’s experience on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and how it…

  • Minstrel passing: Citizenship, race change, and motherhood in 1850s America Saint Louis University 2009 116 pages Publication Number: AAT 3383188 ISBN: 9781109452945 Roshaunda D. Cade, Writing Coordinator, Academic Resource Center Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Saint Louis University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements…

  • The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that 2010 Census population totals and demographic characteristics have been released for communities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. These data have provided the first look at population counts for small areas and race, Hispanic origin, voting age and housing unit data released from…

  • Media Advisory — Census Bureau Director to Discuss Redistricting Data, Center of Population and 2010 Census Briefs National Press Club, 13th floor First Amendment Lounge 529 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20045 2011-03-24, 18:00-19:00Z (14:00-15:00 EDT) Robert M. Groves, Director U.S. Census Bureau Nicholas A. Jones, Chief, Racial Statistics Branch, Population Division U.S. Census Bureau…

  • 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…

  • Ladies Remember Elizabeth Taylor, Weigh Modern Beauty Standards Tell Me More National Public Radio 2011-03-23, 14:00-15:00 EDT (WAMU, 88.5 FM, Washington, D.C.) For other broadcast times, click here. Farai Chideya, Guest Host Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor has died at the age of 79. The screen icon became a…