Category: Europe

  • Census and Identity: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses Cambridge University Press January 2002 224 pages Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521004275 Hardback ISBN: 9780521808231 eBook ISBN: 9780511029325 DOI: 10.2277/0521004276 Edited by: David I. Kertzer, Dupee University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology & Italian Studies Brown University…

  • Rethinking Race History: The Role of the Albino in the Frence Enlightenment Life Sciences History and Theory Volume 48, Issue 3 (October 2009) pages 151–179 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2303.2009.00502.x Andrew Curran, Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures Wesleyan University The scholarly quest to recover the construction of racial difference in the Enlightenment-era life sciences generally overlooks a…

  • Mixed marriage: ‘I am coming to Senegal and I want to marry you’ Surprising Europe: Share Your Migration Experience Netherlands 2010-03-26 This website is part of the international cross-media project Surprising Europe, initiated by Ssuuna Golooba, who left Uganda in the hope of a better life. Surprising Europe consists of a documentary and a nine…

  • Multinational families, creolized practices and new identities: Euro-Senegalese cases Oxford University The Oxford Diasporas Programme 2011-01-01 through 2015-12-31 Hélène Neveu-Kringelbach, Oxford Diaspora Programme Research Fellow, African Studies Centre Junior Research Fellow St Anne’s College, University of Oxford The Oxford Diasporas Programme is a five-year research programme involving various centres at the University of Oxford and…

  • Irish and ‘brown’ – Mixed ‘race’ Irish women’s identity and the problem of belonging Women’s Movement: Migrant Women Transforming Ireland Selection of papers from a conference held in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 2003-03-20 through 2003-03-21 pages 86-90 Angeline Morrison Falmouth College of Arts People are beginning to talk about the ‘invisibility’ of Whiteness. I am…

  • In recent decades Germany has struggled with the reality of being a multicultural society. The influx of political and economic refugees from Asia and Africa as well as growing friction between resident aliens euphemistically termed “Gastarbeiter” (guest workers) and the German population have created a political atmosphere conducive to neofascist and nationalistic elements expounding xenophobic…

  • Celtic Tiger, Hidden Dragon: exploring identity among second generation Chinese in Ireland The Irish Migration, Race and Social Transformation Review Volume 2, Issue 1 (Summer 2007) pages 48-69 Nicola Yau, Independent Researcher Through qualitative interviews, participant observation and an asynchronous group discussion on an Internet forum for second generation Chinese, this article explores identity among…

  • Sigmund Feist and the End of the Idea of the Jews as a Mixed Race Shpilman Institute for Photography Blog 2011-12-04 Amos Morris Reich, Senior Lecturer of Jewish History University of Haifa Sigmnud Feist (1865-1943) is mostly remembered because of the orphanage for Jewish children that he directed in Berlin, as well as for his…

  • Recasting Race after World War II: Germans and African Americans in American-Occupied Germany University Press of Colorado 2007 320 9 b&w photos Cloth ISBN: 978-0-87081-869-1 Timothy L. Schroer, Associate Professor of History University of West Georgia Historian Timothy L. Schroer’s Recasting Race after World War II explores the renegotiation of race by Germans and African…

  • Alexandre Dumas, author of “The Three Musketeers,” “The Count of Monte Cristo,” and “The Man in the Iron Mask,” is the most famous French writer of the nineteenth century. In 2002, his remains were transferred to the Panthéon, a mausoleum reserved for the greatest French citizens, amidst much national hype during his bicentennial.