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  • Impurity of Blood: Defining Race in Spain, 1870-1930

    Impurity of Blood: Defining Race in Spain, 1870-1930 Louisiana State University Press Published: December 2009 288 pages Trim: 6 x 9 Illustrations: 1 map Cloth ISBN: 13: 978-0-8071-3516-7 Joshua Goode, Professor of History and Cultural Studies Claremont Graduate University, California Although Francisco Franco courted the Nazis as allies during the Spanish Civil War in the…

  • “I’m Black an’ I’m Proud”: Ruth Negga, Breakfast on Pluto, and Invisible Irelands

    “I’m Black an’ I’m Proud”: Ruth Negga, Breakfast on Pluto, and Invisible Irelands Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visible Culture Issue number 13 (Spring 2009): After Post-Colonialism University of Rochester, New York Charlotte McIvor, Lecturer in Drama National University Ireland, Galway This article examines Ethiopian-Irish actress Ruth Negga‘s performance in Neil Jordan’s 2005 Breakfast…

  • Teaching and Learning Guide for: Ethnographic approaches to race, genetics and genealogy

    Teaching and Learning Guide for: Ethnographic approaches to race, genetics and genealogy Sociology Compass Volume 3 Issue 5 Pages 847 – 852 2009-07-29 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2009.00231.x Katharine Tyler, Lecturer in Race and Ethnicity University of Surrey Over the last 20 years, there has been a technological advance and commercial boom in genetic technologies and projects. These…

  • Hybridity and its Discontents: Politics, Science, Culture

    Hybridity and its Discontents: Politics, Science, Culture Routledge 2000-08-24 320 pages Trim Size: 234×156 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-19402-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-19403-7 Edited by Avtar Brah, Professor in Sociology Birbek University of London Annie Coombes, Professor of Material and Visual Culture Birkbeck University of London Hybridity and its Discontents explores the history and experience of ‘hybridity’ –…

  • Raising Eurasia: Race, Class, and Age in French and British Colonies

    Raising Eurasia: Race, Class, and Age in French and British Colonies Comparative Studies in Society and History Volume 51, Issue 2 (April 2009) pages 314-343 DOI: 10.1017/S0010417509000140 David M. Pomfret, Associate Professor The University of Hong Kong Sexual relationships between European men and indigenous women produced racially mixed offspring in all of Europe’s empires. Recent…

  • ‘The Nephew’ and ‘The Front Line’: black and mixed masculinities in Irish Cinema

    ‘The Nephew’ and ‘The Front Line’: black and mixed masculinities in Irish Cinema Old Ireland, New Irish: ‘The same people living in the same place’: American Conference for Irish Studies 2009 ‘Into the heartland of the ordinary’: Second Galway Conference of Irish Studies 2009 Hosted by Centre for Irish Studies National University of Ireland, Galway…

  • The One-Drop Rule in Reverse? Interracial Marriages in Napoleonic and Restoration France

    The One-Drop Rule in Reverse? Interracial Marriages in Napoleonic and Restoration France Law and History Review Volume 27, Number 3 Fall 2009 University of Illinois Jennifer Heuer, Associate Professor Department of History University of Massachusetts at Amherst In the early nineteenth century, an obscure rural policeman petitioned the French government with an unusual story.  Charles…

  • The Specter of Sex: Gendered Foundations of Racial Formation in the United States

    Genealogy of the formation of race and gender hierarchies in the U.S.