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  • Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1910s-1960s

    Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1910s-1960s 2009 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2009-06-11 through 2009-06-14 Julia María Schiavone Camacho, Assistant Professor of History University of Texa, El Paso On May 12, 1960, the Mexican Chinese community leader in Macau, Ramón Lay…

  • Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1930s–1960s

    Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1930s–1960s Pacific Historical Review Volume 78, Number 4 (November 2009) pages 545–577 DOI 10.1525/phr.2009.78.4.545 Julia María Schiavone Camacho, Assistant Professor of History University of Texa, El Paso This article follows Mexican Chinese families from Mexico, across the Mexican-U.S. border, to China, and…

  • An interview with Henry Wiencek: Slaves and Slavery in George Washington’s World

    An interview with Henry Wiencek: Slaves and Slavery in George Washington’s World Common-Place: Common Reading Volume 6, Number 4 July 2006 William Costin (c. 1780-1842), the Washingtons’ mixed-race grandson/nephew. He was the son of Ann Dandridge, enslaved half sister of Martha Washington, and Jacky Custis, Martha’s son. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and…

  • An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America

    An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America Farrar, Straus and Giroux an imprint of Macmillan 2003 416 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches 16 Pages of Black-and-White Illustrations/Map/Notes/Index Paperback ISBN: 978-0-374-52951-2, ISBN10: 0-374-52951-5 Henry Wiencek L.A. Times Book Prize – Winner, History A major new biography of Washington, and…

  • Mixed Race in the United States (Lecture Series)

     Mixed Race in the United States Simpson Center for The Humanities at the University of Washington Dates (Local Time: 19:30 PST): 2010-01-06, 2010-01-20, 2010-02-03, 2010-02-17, and 2010-03-03 Location: Kane Hall 220 Is it coincidence that the first nonwhite president of the United States comes from a multiracial background? Or was his election, in fact, partially…

  • Being Multiracial in a Country that Sees Black and White

    Being Multiracial in a Country that Sees Black and White Interpolations: A Journal of First Year Writing Deparment of English, University of Maryland Fall 2009 Lavisha McClarin University of Maryland In America mixed race individuals are becoming more prominent in the media, politics and sports throughout the country. Some of the most popular mixed race…

  • The American Melting Pot? Miscegenation Laws in the United States

    The American Melting Pot? Miscegenation Laws in the United States Organization of American Historians Magazine of History Volume 15, Number 4, Summer 2001 pages 80-84 Bárbara C. Cruz, Associate Professor of Social Science Education University of South Florida, Tampa Michael J. Berson, Associate Professor of Social Science Education University of South Florida People of mixed heritage have…

  • Sexual Naturalization: Asian Americans and Miscegenation

    Sexual Naturalization: Asian Americans and Miscegenation Stanford University Press 2005 224 pages Cloth ISBN-10: 0804747288; ISBN-13: 9780804747288 Paper ISBN-10: 0804747296; ISBN-13: 9780804747295 Susan Koshy, Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Sexual Naturalization offers compelling new insights into the racialized constitution of American nationality. In the first major interdisciplinary study…

  • Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America

    Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America University of Wisconsin Press December 1989 544 pages 6 x 9, 4 tables Paperback ISBN-10: 0-299-12114-3 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-299-12114-3 Paul R. Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara Named an “Outstanding Book on Human Rights in the United States” by the Gustavus Myers Center…

  • More Than Black? Humanitis Series

    More Than Black? Humanitis Series University of California Television February 2003 00:50:32 G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Introduced by: Paul R. Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara In the United States, anyone with even a trace of African American ancestry has been considered Black. Even as the…