Category: History

  •  Mixed Dreams: A Symposium on Multiracial Identities in the United States 2010-10-15 through 2010-10-20 Oberlin College Oberlin, Ohio At its root, Mixed Dreams: A Symposium on Multiracial Identities in the U.S. aims to create a space to discuss and interrogate historical and contemporary perspectives on multiraciality and the “multiracial experiences” of people identifying as bi-racial,…

  • The ‘Native’ Undefined: Colonial Categories, Anglo-African Status and the Politics of Kinship in British Central Africa, 1929-38 The Journal of African History Volume 46, Issue 3 (2005) pages 455-478 DOI: 10.1017/S0021853705000861 Christopher Joon-Hai Lee University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill This article examines the categorical problem that persons of ‘mixed-race’ background presented to British administrations…

  • The Chinese Mestizos and the Formation of the Filipino Nationality Archipel Volume 32, 1986 pages 141-162 DOI: 10.3406/arch.1986.2316 Antonio S. Tan The recorded history of the Philippines would be incomplete as a basis for understanding contemporary society unless it takes into account the Chinese mestizos’ contributions to our development as a nation.  The Chinese mestizos…

  • The Chinese Mestizo in Philippine History The Journal of Southeast Asian History Volume 5, Number 1 (March 1964) pages 62-100 DOI: 10.1017/S0217781100002222 Edgar Wickberg (1927-2008), Professor Emeritus of History University of British Columbia Our knowledge is still insufficient to allow us to assess the overall significance of the mestizo in Philippine history. But on the…

  • Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991 Duke University Press 2000 424 pages 21 b&w photographs, 2 maps, 1 table Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2385-3 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2420-1 Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected…

  • Ethnic Studies 064: Mixed Race Descent in the Americas Mills College, Oakland, California Fall 2010 Melinda Micco, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies This is an introductory course that examines the historical and theoretical development of identities and of communities of multiracial and multiethnic people. In the academy, in government, and in popular culture, the lives…

  • Redeeming the “Character of the Creoles”: Whiteness, Gender and Creolization in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue Journal of Historical Sociology Volume 23, Issue 1 (March 2010) pages 40–72 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6443.2009.01359.x Yvonne Fabella, Lecturer of History University of Pennsylvania This article examines the political significance of white creolization in pre-revolutionary French Saint Domingue. Eighteenth-century Europeans tended to view…

  • Multiethnic Multiracial Experience (Ethnic Studies 199) University of Oregon Winter 2010 Anselmo Villanueva, Ph.D. This course will focus on the multiracial multiethnic experience in the United States, with particular emphasis on the Northwest. This course will provide students with a framework to understand this experience. The course will cover the history and background of the…

  • VIS409 Mixed Race Women’s Memoirs Antioch University, Midwest Winter 2010 This course is designed as a multidisciplinary exploration of race, gender, and identity utilizing oral and written narratives of Black-white mixed race women from the mid-nineteenth century to the present as source material. Drawing from elements of cultural studies, African American studies, American studies, and…

  • Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance University of Michigan Press 2006 256 pages 6 x 9. 29 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-472-09955-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-472-06955-2 Alicia Arrizón, Professor of Women’s Studies University of California, Riverside Winner of the Outstanding Book Award for 2008 from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Co-winner of the 2007 Modern…