Category: History

  • Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011, Volume 2: Culture and Identity in the Luso-Asian World: Tenacities & Plasticities Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2012 368 pages Soft cover ISBN: 978-981-4345-50-7 See Volume 1 here. Edited by: Laura Jarnagin, Visiting Professorial Fellow Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore also Associate Professor Emerita in…

  • The Métis Métis National Council Ottowa, Ontario, Canada 2011 Prior to Canada’s crystallization as a nation in west central North America, the Métis people emerged out of the relations of Indian women and European men. While the initial offspring of these Indian and European unions were individuals who possessed mixed ancestry, the gradual establishment of…

  • Jazz, Race Collide With War In 1930s Europe Tell Me More National Public Radio 2012-03-26 Jacki Lyden, Host The novel Half Blood Blues explores an often overlooked slice of history: black jazz musicians in Germany on the eve of World War II. The book moves from 1992 to 1939, from Baltimore to Berlin to Paris.…

  • Children of the Occupation NewSouth Publishing 2012-07-01 Walter Hamilton, Journalist and Author Towards the end of an eventful life, George Budworth, who served with the Australian Army in Japan after the war, wrote an account describing the first time he saw his son, Peter. It was not in a hospital maternity ward but on the…

  • The Miscegenation of Richard Mentor Johnson as an Issue in the National Election Campaign of 1835-1836 Civil War History Volume 39, Number 1, March 1993 pages 5-30 DOI: 10.1353/cwh.1993.0043 Thomas Brown White American men of the antebellum era abhorred few, if any, things more than the danger of an “amalgamation” of their race with African…

  • American Dilemma: The Negro problem and Modern Democracy Harper and Brothers Publishing 1944 822 pages Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987) With the Assistance of Richard Sterner and Arnold Rose This landmark effort to understand African-American people in the New World provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people…

  • Review of Mazón, Patricia M.; Steingröver, Reinhild, eds., Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890-2000 H-German, H-Net Reviews June 2009 Lynn Kutch, Assistant Professor of German Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Patricia M. Mazón, Reinhild Steingröver, eds. Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890-2000. Rochester: University…

  • The Durability of Race RaceFiles: On Race and Racism in our Politics and Daily Lives 2012-10-05 Scot Nakagawa, Senior Partner ChangeLab There’s been a lot of talk lately about the death of racism. Many believe that as the global demographics change and Generation Y rises, racism will fade in significance. Some even suggest that what…

  • Travels of self-discovery: African heritage in Mexico American Observer: American University’s Graduate Journalism Magazine American University, Washington, D.C. 2009-11-12 Carmen Castro Cesareo Moreno clearly remembers his family visit to Guanajuato, Mexico, in 2004. He was on a mission to learn more about his Mexican heritage. Moreno told his uncle he wanted to learn more about…

  • Children of the Occupation: Japan’s Untold Story NewSouth Books (American Edition coming soon from Rutgers University Press) July 2012 352 pages 234 x 153mm Paperback ISBN: 9781742233314 Walter Hamilton, Journalist and Author This is a beautifully written, deeply moving and well-researched account of the lives of mixed-race children of occupied Japan. The author artfully blends…