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  • Reloaded: Representing Asian Women Beyond Hollywood

    Reloaded: Representing Asian Women Beyond Hollywood Thursday, 2010-01-28, 16:00-17:30 PST (Local Time) University of California, Berkeley Center for Race & Gender 691 Barrows Hall Elaine H. Kim, Professor of Asian American Studies University of California, Berkeley Join Prof. Elaine Kim for a screening and discussion of the new 30 minute documentary film, Reloaded: Representing Asian…

  • Challenging Mestizaje: A Gender Perspective on Indigenous and Afrodescendant Movements in Latin America

    Challenging Mestizaje: A Gender Perspective on Indigenous and Afrodescendant Movements in Latin America Critique of Anthropology Vol. 25, No. 3 pages 307-330 (2005) DOI: 10.1177/0308275X05055217 Helen I. Safa, Professor Emerita of Anthropology/Latin American Studies University of Florida This article compares the contemporary movements for cultural autonomy and social legitimation organized by the indigenous and Afrodescendant…

  • Secret Agent Insiders to Whiteness: Mixed Race Women Negotiating Structure and Agency

    Secret Agent Insiders to Whiteness: Mixed Race Women Negotiating Structure and Agency University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2007 325 pages Silvia Cristina Bettez, Assistant Professor Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations University of North Carolina, Greensboro A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial…

  • Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away

    “Secret Daughter” tells her story of survival. It traces June’s astonishing discoveries about her mother and about her own fierce determination to thrive.

  • The Mulatta as a Dominant Fictional Character

    The mulatta emerged as a dominant fictional character and as a frequent subject for painters, photographers, and filmmakers not simply because she was as Hazel Carby deems her, “a narrative device of mediation”.  Far from resolving issues of race, class, and gender, the ambivalence of the mulatta figure fascinated writers and readers, artists and audiences.  The…

  • Q&A With Researchers: Associate Professor Manying Ip

    Q&A With Researchers: Associate Professor Manying Ip asia:nz online Asia New Zealand Foundation Associate Professor Manying Ip Asia:NZ Trustee; Associate Professor of Chinese, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland Manying Ip came to New Zealand in 1974 from Hong Kong where her family lived for five generations. With her strong classical Chinese education at…

  • Drawing Battle Lines

    Drawing Battle Lines Sarah Lawrence College Magazine Spring 2003: Who Are You Catherine McKinley[-Davis] was one of only a few thousand African-American and biracial children adopted by white couples in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Throughout her childhood and adolescence, her consciousness grew as she did. Her very identity—composed both of the whiteness and…

  • A Letter to My Father: Growing up Filipina and American

    A Letter to My Father: Growing up Filipina and American University of Oklahoma Press 2008 184 pages 5.5″ x 8.5″ x 0″ 8 b&w illustrations, 2 maps Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8061-3909-8 Helen Madamba Mossman Going from the jungles of the wartime Philippines to the schoolyards of northwestern Oklahoma is no easy transition. For one twelve-year-old girl,…

  • Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in California, 1820-1880

    The surprising truth about intermarriage in 19th-Century California

  • Tragic Mulatto Girl Wonder: The paradoxical life of Philippa Duke Schuyler

    Tragic Mulatto Girl Wonder: The paradoxical life of Philippa Duke Schuyler QBR The Black Book Review February/March 1996 Lise Funderburg Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler by Kathryn Talalay Oxford University Press (317 pp.) Hardcover ISBN 0-19-509608-8 As a child prodigy, pianist and composer, Philippa Duke Schuyler incited both awe and…