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  • Beyond Black and White: A film by Nisma Zaman

    Beyond Black and White: A film by Nisma Zaman Women Make Movies 1994 28 minutes Color, 16mm/DVD Order No. W99431 Beyond Black and White is a personal exploration of the filmmaker’s bicultural heritage (Caucasian and Asian/Begali) in which she relates her experiences to those of five other women from various biracial backgrounds. In lively interviews…

  • Blood, Race, and National Identity: Scientific and Popular Discourses

    Blood, Race, and National Identity: Scientific and Popular Discourses Journal of Medical Humanities Volume 23, Numbers 3-4 (December, 2002) Pages 171-186 Print ISSN: 1041-3545; Online ISSN: 1573-3645 DOI: 10.1023/A:1016890117447 Allyson Polsky McCabe, Lecturer in English Yale University This essay examines the symbolic significance of blood in the twentieth century and its role in determining the…

  • Telling a Tall Tale, Family-Style—Author and Cultural Historian Scott Sandage Delivers 17th Annual Levine Lecture

    Telling a Tall Tale, Family-Style—Author and Cultural Historian Scott Sandage Delivers 17th Annual Levine Lecture Rider University News Rider University, New Jersey 2008-10-16 For all his traditional academic rearing, Scott Sandage readily concedes that the revival of narrative has brought a new vitality to the discipline of history. “It was long considered unintellectual to tell…

  • Miscegenation Facts […From 1879]

    Miscegenation Facts […From 1879] Daily British Colonist Vicoria, British Columbia 1879-10-07 21st Year Page 1, 2nd Column David W. Higgins, Editor and Proprietor The child of colored parents of different tints, such as quadroon and mulatto, or mulatto and black, will be nearer to the tint of the darker parent.  If both parents of the…

  • My People Will Sleep for One Hundred Years: Story of a Métis Self

    My People Will Sleep for One Hundred Years: Story of a Métis Self University of Victoria 2004 106 pages Sylvia Rae Cottell, B.F.A. Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies…

  • Metis Identity Creation and Tactical Responses to Oppression and Racism

    Metis Identity Creation and Tactical Responses to Oppression and Racism Variegations Journal University of Victoria, Canada Volume 2 (2005) ISSN: 1708-9840 Cathy Richardson Indigenous Governance University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada As one of Canada’s founding Aboriginal people (Department of Justice Canada, 1982), the Metis exist at the periphery of the Canadian historical, cultural and social…

  • From Narratives of Miscegenation to Post-Modernist Re-Imagining: Toward a Historiography of Coloured Identity in South Africa

    From Narratives of Miscegenation to Post-Modernist Re-Imagining: Toward a Historiography of Coloured Identity in South Africa African Historical Review Volume 40, Issue 1 (June 2008) pages 77 – 100 DOI: 10.1080/17532520802249472 Mohamed Adhikari, Associate Professor of History University of Cape Town, South Africa This article traces changing interpretations of the nature of Coloured identity and…

  • White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812

    White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 University of North Carolina Press 1968-09-25 (Republished: September 1995) 671 pages 8.9 x 6 x 1.4 inches ISBN: 978-0-8078-4550-9 Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Winthrop D. Jordan (1931-2007) Winner of the 1968 Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American…

  • Entangling Alliances: Foreign War Brides and American Soldiers in the Twentieth Century

    Entangling Alliances: Foreign War Brides and American Soldiers in the Twentieth Century New York University Press 2010-03-22 320 pages, 8 illustrations ISBN: 9780814797174 Susan Zeiger Throughout the twentieth century, American male soldiers returned home from wars with foreign-born wives in tow, often from allied but at times from enemy nations, resulting in a new, official…

  • Preserving Racial Identity: Population Patterns and the Application of Anti-Miscegenation Statutes to Asian Americans, 1910-1950

    Preserving Racial Identity: Population Patterns and the Application of Anti-Miscegenation Statutes to Asian Americans, 1910-1950 Berkeley Asian Law Journal Volume 9, Number 1 (2002) pages 1-40 Gabriel J. Chin University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law; University of Arizona School of Government and Public Policy Hrishi Karthikeyan New York University School of Law…