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  • Status, Race, and Marriage: French Continental Law versus French Colonial Law

    Status, Race, and Marriage: French Continental Law versus French Colonial Law American Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting Friday, 2010-01-08 14:30 PST (Local Time) Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego Manchester Ballroom F (Hyatt) San Diego, California Valérie Gobert-Sega École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France In its most traditional moral and legal conception, marriage…

  • Intimacy and the Atlantic World

    Intimacy and the Atlantic World American Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting Friday, 2010-01-08 14:50 PST (Local Time) Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego Manchester Ballroom F (Hyatt) San Diego, California Jennifer L. Palmer, Collegiate Assistant Professor of History University of Chicago In 1755 the merchant Aimé-Benjamin Fleuriau returned to his native city of La Rochelle, a…

  • Proposed Session: Multiracial/ethnic families

    Proposed Session: Multiracial/ethnic families XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology Sociology on the Move International Sociological Association 2010-07-11 through 2010-07-17 Gothenburg, Sweden Programme Coordinators Rudy R. Seward, Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, and Associate Chair of Sociology University of North Texas, USA Ria Smit, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Johannesburg, South Africa Organizers: Cynthia…

  • `For Venus smiles not in a house of tears’: Interethnic relations in European cinema

    `For Venus smiles not in a house of tears’: Interethnic relations in European cinema European Journal of Cultural Studies 2003 Vol. 6, No. 1 pages 55-74 DOI: 10.1177/1367549403006001470 Anneke Smelik University of Nijmegen In the 1990s, several European filmmakers addressed the Romeo and Juliet motif of `impossible love’ in the context of multiculturalism. A heterosexual…

  • The Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow

    The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, born Joseph Bologne, was the son of an African slave and a French plantation owner on the island of Guadeloupe. The story of his improbable rise in French society, his life as a famous fencer, celebrated violinist-composer and conductor, and later commander of a colored regiment in the French Revolution, should,…

  • ‘Toubab La!’ Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora

    ‘Toubab La!’ Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora Cambridge Scholars Publishing July 2007 453 pages ISBN13: 9781847182319 ISBN: 1-84718-231-3 Ginette Curry, Professor of English Florida International University The book is an examination of mixed-race characters from writers in the United States, The French and British Caribbean islands (Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Lucia and…

  • Between Totem And Taboo: Black Man, White Woman in Francographic Literature

    Between Totem And Taboo: Black Man, White Woman in Francographic Literature University of Exeter Press 2001 292 pages Hardback ISBN: 9780859896498 BIC Code: 1HFD, 2ADF, 3JF, 3JH, 3JJ Roger Little Between Totem and Taboo picks its way judiciously through a minefield of prejudice, myth and stereotypes.  It is the first book to explore the literary…

  • Labeling People: French Scholars on Society, Race, and Empire, 1815-1848

    Labeling People: French Scholars on Society, Race, and Empire, 1815-1848 McGill-Queen’s University Press 2003-08-20 264 pages 6 x 9 15 drawings Cloth ISBN: (0773525807) 9780773525801 Martin S. Staum, Professor of History University of Calgary An examination of techniques used by scholarly societies to classify people that constructed the image of an inferior “Other” to promote…

  • Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples (Second Edition)

    Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples (Second Edition) University of Illinois Press 1993 Paper: 978-0-252-06321-3 352 pages Jack D. Forbes, Professor Emeritus. Native American Studies and Anthropology University of California, Davis This volume will revise the way we look at the modern populations of Latin America and…

  • Black Europe and the African Diaspora

    Black Europe and the African Diaspora University of Illinois Press 2009 368 pages 6 x 9 in.  15 black & white photographs, 1 map Cloth: ISBN 978-0-252-03467-1 Paper: ISBN 978-0-252-07657-2 Edited by Darlene Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies Northwestern University Trica Danielle Keaton, Associate Professor of African American and Diaspora…