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  • Rejoining the Parts: A Conversation with Jane Lazarre About Race, Fiction, American History and Her New Novel, Inheritance

    Rejoining the Parts: A Conversation with Jane Lazarre About Race, Fiction, American History and Her New Novel, Inheritance Tenured Radical The Chronicle of Higher Education 2011-11-15 Claire Potter, Professor of History and American Studies Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Jane Lazarre is a writer of fiction, memoir and poetry who has published many books, beginning with…

  • The myth of the melting pot

    The myth of the melting pot Biodemography and Social Biology Volume 1, Issue 4 (1954) pages 248-251 DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1954.9987204 David C. Rife Institute of Genetics The Ohio State University Elton F. Paddock Institute of Genetics The Ohio State University Myths are fictional legends, but more often than not they carry elements of truth. Popular beliefs…

  • Lectures delivered by John Powell under the auspices of the lectureship in Music

    Lectures delivered by John Powell under the auspices of the lectureship in Music The Rice Institute Pamphlet Volume 10, Number 3 (July 1923) pages 107-163 Lectures delivered by John Powell Palace Theatre of Houston 1923-04-05 through 1923-04-06 John Powell Table of Contents I. Music and the Individual (20 pages) II. Music and the Nation (38…

  • One Big Hapa Family

    One Big Hapa Family KCTS 9 Television Real NW Seattle, Washington Monday, 2011-11-14, 22:00 PST After a family reunion, Japanese-Canadian filmmaker, Jeff Chiba Stearns embarks on a journey of self-discovery to find out why everyone in his Japanese-Canadian family married interracially after his grandparents’ generation. Using a mix of live action and animation, “One Big…

  • The Stain of White: Liaisons, Memories, and White Men as Relatives

    The Stain of White: Liaisons, Memories, and White Men as Relatives Men and Masculinities Volume 9, Number 2 (October 2006) pages 131-151 DOI: 10.1177/1097184X06287764 Janaki Abraham, Assistant Professor Women Studies Jawaharlal Neru University During British colonial rule some matrilineal Thiyya women in North Kerala, India, had liaisons with British men. While the response of the…

  • Redrawing the Color Line: Gender and the Social Construction of Race in Pre-Revolutionary Haiti

    Redrawing the Color Line: Gender and the Social Construction of Race in Pre-Revolutionary Haiti Journal of Caribbean History Volume 30, Numbers 1 & 2 (1996) pages 28-50 John D. Garrigus, Associate Professor of History University of Texas, Austin This article examines the social and political construction of race in French colonial Saint-Domingue. After 1763 white…

  • Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race

    America’s racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective destiny by which power has been organized and contested in the…

  • The Multiracial Identity Movement: Countless Ways to Misunderstand Race

    The Multiracial Identity Movement: Countless Ways to Misunderstand Race MixedRaceStudies.org 2011-11-04 Steven F. Riley In Jen Chau’s essay, “Multiracial Families: Counted But Still Misunderstood,” in the October 31, 2011 issue of Racialiscious, reveals just how much race is misunderstood by some activists within the multiracial identity movement and exemplifies why the movement—in its current form—is…

  • Melville Jean Herskovits

    Melville Jean Herskovits American Anthropologist Volume 66, Issue 1 (February 1964) pages 83-109 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1964.66.1.02a00080 Alan P. Merriam Melville Jean Herskovits (1895-1963) Melville Jean Herskovits was born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, September 10, 1895, and spent his childhood there and in Texas. In 1920 he took his Ph.B. at the University of Chicago, and later came…

  • Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix [Review: Glazier]

    Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix [Review: Glazier] Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries Volume 49, Number 2 (October 2011) Steven D. Glazier, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology University of Nebraska, Lincoln Spencer, Rainier. Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix. L. Rienner, 2011. 355p bibl index afp ISBN 9781588267511. Spencer’s insightful analysis and critique…