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  • Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World by John D. Garrigus and Christopher Morris (review)

    Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World by John D. Garrigus and Christopher Morris (review) The Americas Volume 69, Number 4, April 2013 pages 532-533 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2013.0017 James Sidbury, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Humanities Rice University John D. Garrigus and Christopher Morris, eds., Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in…

  • A Rising Voice: Afro-Latin Americans

    A Rising Voice: Afro-Latin Americans Miami Herald 2007-06-10 through 2007-06-24 In this series, the black experience is unveiled through a journey: to Nicaragua, where a quiet but powerful civil and cultural rights movement flickers while in neighboring Honduras, the black Garffuna community fights for cultural survival; to the Dominican Republic where African lineage is not…

  • “La Negrita,” Queen of the Ticos: The Black Roots of Costa Rica’s Patron Saint

    “La Negrita,” Queen of the Ticos: The Black Roots of Costa Rica’s Patron Saint The Americas Volume 69, Number 3, January 2013 pages 323-355 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2013.0025 Russell Lohse, Assistant Professor of History Pennsylvania State University In sharp contrast to her mestizo and mulatto neighbors, Costa Rica is one of a handful of Latin American countries…

  • Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom

    Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom University of California Press February 2005 329 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520241329 Paperback ISBN: 9780520250024 Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association Frederick Jackson…

  • Skin Bleach And Civilization: The Racial Formation of Blackness in 1920s Harlem

    Skin Bleach And Civilization: The Racial Formation of Blackness in 1920s Harlem The Journal of Pan African Studies Voume 4, Number 4 (June 2011) pages 47-80 Jacob S. Dorman, Assistant Professor of African American History and American Studies University of Kansas Unlike previous scholarship on skin-bleaching advertisements conducted by scholars such as Lawrence Levine and…

  • Judicial Erasure of Mixed-Race Discrimination

    This Article aims to expose the shortcomings of the prevailing crude racial categories as a means to implement the core provisions of antidiscrimination law—constitutional and statutory provisions such as the Equal Protection Clause and Title VII, and the jurisprudence that has developed around these provisions.

  • Why Are We Hung Up on Our Mixed Roots?

    Why Are We Hung Up on Our Mixed Roots? The Root 2012-03-06 Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D., Editor At-Large The latest controversy in Beyoncé Knowles news may be her breast-feeding Blue Ivy in public, but I’m still shaking my head about the recent fuss over her True Match commercial for L’Oréal, which highlights the singer’s mixed-race…

  • 383a. Nation, Race and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean – Senior Seminar

    383a. Nation, Race and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean – Senior Seminar Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York 2013/2014 Light Carruyo, Associate Professor of Sociology   (Same as Sociology 383) With a focus on Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean this course traces and analyzes the ways in which the project of nation building…

  • 305. The Social Construction of Race in the U.S.

    305. The Social Construction of Race in the U.S. Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York Diane Harriford, Professor of Sociology This course examines the social construction of race in the United States from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. The focus is on the changing racial meanings and identities of specific socio-historical groups…

  • ‘Visible & Invisible’ Exhibition to Explore History of Hapa JA Experience

    ‘Visible & Invisible’ Exhibition to Explore History of Hapa JA Experience The Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanese Daily News 2013-03-31 The Japanese American National Museum, in collaboration with the USC Hapa Japan Database Project, will present its next exhibition, “Visible & Invisible: A Hapa Japanese American History,” from Sunday, April 7, through Sunday, Aug. 25.…