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  • White Supremacists from 1920s Still Thwarting Virginia Tribes

    White Supremacists from 1920s Still Thwarting Virginia Tribes Indian Country Today Media Network 2011-04-26 Tanya Lee Congress is once again considering legislation that would grant federal recognition to six of Virginia’s 11 state-recognized American Indian tribes—the Chickahominy, Chickahominy Eastern Division, Nansemond, Rappahannock and Upper Mattaponi tribes and the Monacan Indian Nation. Chief Gene Adkins of…

  • Mixed Britannia [Reveiw]

    Mixed Britannia [Review] Caliban in London: a postcolonial subject in an imperial capital 2011-10-10 Anindya Raychaudhuri, Post-Doctoral Fellow Department of English Language and Literature University College London Caliban in London has previously reviewed part of the BBC’s new Mixed Race season. Thursday evening saw the screening of the first of a 3 part documentary called…

  • Globalizing a Race to Publish an Encyclopedia

    Globalizing a Race to Publish an Encyclopedia American Nineteenth Century History Volume 11, Issue 1 (2010) pages 79-94 DOI: 10.1080/14664651003616966 Michael Benjamin, Independent Scholar African American Print Culture Cleveland, Ohio, USA In 1912, Daniel Alexander Payne Murray published a prospectus for his “Historical and Biographical Encyclopedia of the Colored Race throughout the World.” He promised…

  • The pot that called the kettle white: Changing racial identities and U.S. social construction of race

    The pot that called the kettle white: Changing racial identities and U.S. social construction of race Identities Volume 5, Issue 3 (1998) Special Issue: Foundational Concepts: Gender, Race, and Locality pages 379-413 DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962622 Norberto Valdez, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies Colorado State University Janice Valdez Continuing Education Department Colorado State University Ethnic and racial…

  • Professor Daniel J. Sharfstein to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Professor Daniel J. Sharfstein to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #230 – Professor…

  • The threat of ‘woolly-haired grandchildren’: Race, the colonial family and German nationalism

    The threat of ‘woolly-haired grandchildren’: Race, the colonial family and German nationalism The History of the Family Volume 14, Issue 4 (2009-10-26) The Domestic Frontier: European Colonialism, Nationalism and the Family Pages 356-368 DOI: 10.1016/j.hisfam.2009.08.002 Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, Senior Lecturer in International History Flinders University, Australia The German colonial world was marked by an ostensibly…

  • History and the (Un)making of Identifications in Literary Representations of Anglo-Indians and Goan Catholics

    History and the (Un)making of Identifications in Literary Representations of Anglo-Indians and Goan Catholics University of British Columbia September 2000 465 pages Marian Josephine Gracias A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Department of English) This dissertation examines selected literature…

  • Bynum: The Long Shadow of the Civil War (2010)

    Bynum: The Long Shadow of the Civil War (2010) The Civil War Monitor: A New Look at America’s Greatest Conflict 2011-10-19 Laura Hepp Bradshaw Carnegie Mellon University The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies by Victoria E. Bynum. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0807833819. “Few…

  • Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana

    Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana Lousiana State University Press 2004-10-30 344 pages 6.00 x 9.00 inches / 8 halftones, 3 maps ISBN-10: 0807130265; ISBN-13: 978-0807130261 Caryn Cossé Bell, Professor of History University of Massachusetts, Lowell Jules and Frances Landry Award With the Federal occupation of New Orleans in 1862, Afro-Creole leaders…

  • “Portuguese” Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries

    “Portuguese” Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries Indiana University Press 2002-11-14 224 pages 32 b&w photos, 2 maps, 1 index 6.125 x 9.25 ISBN: 978-0-253-21552-9 Peter Mark, Professor of Art History Wesleyan University In this detailed history of domestic architecture in West Africa, Peter Mark shows how building styles are closely associated with…