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  • Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic

    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,…

  • Navigating the Racial Terrain: Blackness and Mixedness in the United States and the Dominican Republic

    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.

  • President Underscores Similarities With Brazilians, but Ignores One

    President Underscores Similarities With Brazilians, but Ignores One The New York Times 2011-03-20 Alexei Barrionuevo Jackie Calmes RIO de JANEIRO — From a visit to this city’s most infamous slum to a national address amid the gilded elegance of a celebrated theater, President Obama on Sunday sought to underscore the shared histories and futures of…

  • The Creolisation of London Kinship: Mixed African-Caribbean and White British Extended Families, 1950-2003

    The Creolisation of London Kinship: Mixed African-Caribbean and White British Extended Families, 1950-2003 Amsterdam University Press November 2010 282 pages Paperback ISBN: 978 90 8964 235 6 Elaine Bauer, Fellow at the Young Foundation; Associate Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London In the last 50 years, the United…

  • Session 408: Haafu, mixed race studies and multicultural questions in Japan

    Session 408: Haafu, mixed race studies and multicultural questions in Japan AAS-ICAS Joint Conference Association for Asian Studes (AAS)/International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) 2011-03-31 through 2011-04-03 Hawai’i Convention Center Honolulu, Hawaii Session Location and Time: Room 316C Saturday, 2011-04-02, 07:30-09:30 HAST (Local Time) Organizer and Chair: Koichi Iwabuchi Waseda University, Japan Discussant: Hsiao-Chuan Hsia…

  • Cosmopolitan or mongrel? Créolité, hybridity and ‘douglarisation’ in Trinidad

    Cosmopolitan or mongrel? Créolité, hybridity and ‘douglarisation’ in Trinidad European Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 2, Number 3 (September 1999) pages 331-353 DOI: 10.1177/136754949900200303 Eve Stoddard, Dana Professor of Global Studies St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York Grant H. Cornwell, President College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio The article examines a Trinidadian calypso and its reception…

  • Brooklyn Museum Acquires Eighteenth-Century Painting by Agostino Brunias Depicting Dominica Mixed Race Colonial Elite

    Brooklyn Museum Acquires Eighteenth-Century Painting by Agostino Brunias Depicting Dominica Mixed Race Colonial Elite The Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052 T(718) 638-5000, F(718) 501-6134 January 2011 Agostino Brunias (Italian, ca. 1730-1796), Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a Landscape, ca. 1764-1796, Oil on canvas, 2010.59, Gift of Mrs.…

  • Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas

    Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas Ashgate Publishing July 2007 218 pages 219 x 153 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-5189-5 Edited by Nora E. Jaffary, Associate Professor of History Concordia University, Montreal, Canada When Europe introduced mechanisms to control New World territories, resources and populations, women-whether African, indigenous, mixed race, or European-responded…

  • Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiah [Amaye Review]

    Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiah [Amaye Review] New Black Arts Alliance 2011-02-18 Muli Amaye, Part 1 Tutor, Creative Writing Lancaster University Daniel R. McNeil. Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic: Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs. London: Routledge, 2009, 186 pp. Hardback ISBN 978-0-415-87226-3, Paperback ISBN 978-0-415-89391-6, eBook…

  • Mixed-Race Celebrities on Race, in their Own Words

    Mixed-Race Celebrities on Race, in their Own Words Time Magazine: Healthland 2011-02-15 Meredith Melnick, Reporter and Producer Who Are You? If biracial and multiracial celebrities have anything in common, it is that they are often asked to explain themselves. That may sound familiar to any person of mixed ancestry for whom questions like “What are…