Category: History

  • Becoming Mexipino: A Book Event with Rudy Guevarra Jr. California State University, Fullerton Langsdorf Hall 402 (Map) Thursday, 2013-04-25, 16:00-17:30 PDT (Local Time) Rudy Guevarra, Jr., Assistant Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Arizona State University, Tempe Becoming Mexipino is a social-historical interpretation of two ethnic…

  • White Without Soap: Philanthropy, Caste and Exclusion in Colonial Victoria 1835-1888, A Political Economy of Race University of Melbourne November 2003 328 pages Marguerita Stephens Submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of History The thesis explores the connections between nineteenth century imperial anthropology, racial ‘science’, and…

  • Mixed bloods of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia Washington Academy of Sciences Volume 36, Number 1 (1946-01-15) pages 1-13 Source: Biodiversity Heritage Library William Harlen Gilbert, Jr. Library of Congress We are accustomed to think of West Virginia as a racially homogeneous State populated by Old Americans of English, Scotch, and Scotch-Irish descent with…

  • Half-castes between the Wars: Colonial Categories in New Zealand and Samoa New Zealand Journal of History Volume 34, Number 1 (2000) pages 98-116 Tocolcsulusulu D. Salesa Oriel College, University of Oxford BY THE 1930s ‘half-castes‘ seemed a near-universal product of colonialism. They were a natural outcome of the human activity of procreation, and not a…

  • Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race 1750–1940 Australian National University Press October 2008 372 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1921313994; ISBN-13: 978-1921313998 Online ISBN: 9781921536007 Edited by: Bronwen Douglas, Senior Fellow in Pacific and Asian History The Australian National University Chris Ballard, Fellow in Pacific and Asian History The Australian National University From the 18th…

  • AfroAsian Encounters is the first anthology to look at the mutual influence of and relationships between members of the African and Asian diasporas.

  • Brown Babies Germany’s Forgotten Children – Henriette Cain Research at the National Archives & Beyond BlogTalk Radio 2013-01-17 Bernice Bennett, Host Are you searching for your family?  Are you German, Brown and want to learn more about your American or German heritage? Join Henriette Cain Genealogist, Search Consultant and Secretary of the Black German Cultural…

  • Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity Beacon Press 2001 232 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-080705011-8 Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut Selected as One of the Village Voice’s Favorite 25 Books of 2001 In this…

  • Racial Crossings: Race, intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire by Damon Ieremia Salesa (review) Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 14, Number 1, Spring 2013 DOI: 10.1353/cch.2013.0015 Sarah Carter, Professor of History University of Alberta Damon Ieremia Salesa, Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)…

  • Imperial Relations: Histories of family in the British Empire Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 14, Number 1, Spring 2013 DOI: 10.1353/cch.2013.0006 Esme Cleall, Lecturer in the History University of Sheffield Laura Ishiguro, Professor of History University of British Columbia Emily J. Manktelow King’s College London In early 1860, Mary Moody gave birth to…