Category: Autobiography

  • My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots Basic Civitas Books 2007-01-02 352 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780465015740; ISBN-10: 0465015743 Thulani Davis Starting from a photograph and writings left by her grandmother, acclaimed African-American novelist Thulani Davis goes looking for the “white folk” in her family, a Scots-Irish family of cotton planters unknown to…

  • My Experience on the Indian-Negro Color Line Indian Country Today 2011-12-27 Julianne Jennings Arizona State University Growing-up on the Indian-Negro color line (I am the daughter of a European mother and a black and Indian father), I lived with mixed signals and coded information by the dominant culture. It had determined that white European culture…

  • Racial Identities, Genetic Ancestry, and Health in South America: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay Palgrave Macmillan October 2011 272 pages Includes: 10 pages of figures, 10 pages of tables 5.500 x 8.250 inches ISBN: 978-0-230-11061-8, ISBN10: 0-230-11061-4 Edited by Sahra Gibbon, Wellcome Trust Fellow Department of Social Anthropology University College London Ricardo Ventura Santos, Professor…

  • For Maria Campbell, a Métis (“Halfbreed”) in Canada, the brutal realities of poverty, pain, and degradation intruded early and followed her every step. Her story is a harsh one, but it is told without bitterness or self-pity.

  • Visibly Different: Face, Place and Race in Australia Peter Lang Publishing Group 2007 186 pages Weight: 0.330 kg, 0.728 lbs Paperback ISBN: 978-3-03911-323-1 Series: Studies in Asia-Pacific “Mixed Race” (Volume 2) Edited by: Maureen Perkins, Associate Professor of History, Anthropology and Sociology Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia What does an Australian look like? Many Australians assume…

  • Defending Home and Hearth: Walter White Recalls the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot Web Source: History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web Walter White, A Man Called White 1948; reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1969 pages 5–12 Walter White (1893-1955) The riots that broke out between 1898 and 1906 were part of a pattern…

  • Métis/Mulâtre, Mulato, Mulatto, Negro, Moreno, Mundele Kaki, Black,… The Wanderings and Meanderings of Identities Chapter in: Problematizing Blackness: Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States Routledge 2003-09-30 240 pages Edited by Jean Muteba Rahier, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African & African Diaspora Studies Florida International University Percey C. Hintzen, Professor of African…

  • Who Will You Let Me Be? Race, Ethnicity, and Me: Autobiographical Reflections by Trinity University Students Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas Fall 2008 Claire Murphy-Cook Race, Ethnicity, and Me is a collection of autobiographical essays written by Trinity University students as an assignment for a course taught by Professor David Spener in the Department of…

  • Black Welsh Identity: the unspeakable speaks. British Broadcasting Corporation North West Wales 2006-05-30 Isabel Adonis, Writer and Artist Isabel Adonis was born in London and brought up in Llandudno, the Sudan and Nigeria. She spent 21 years in Bethesda before returning to Llandudno. She helped found Timbuktu, a new international arts and literary journal. This…

  • The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood Hachette Book Group 2001 368 pages 5-1/2″ x 8-1/4″ Paperback ISBN:9780316284615 Kien Nguyen A story of hope, a story of survival, and an incredible journey of escape, ‘The Unwanted’ is the only memoir by an Amerasian who stayed behind in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon and who is…