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  • Dr. Rainier Spencer Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Dr. Rainier Spencer 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) Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #131 – Dr. Rainier Spencer Wednesday, 2009-12-09  22:00Z Rainier Spencer, Director and Professor of Afro-American Studies; Professor…

  • The Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow

    The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, born Joseph Bologne, was the son of an African slave and a French plantation owner on the island of Guadeloupe. The story of his improbable rise in French society, his life as a famous fencer, celebrated violinist-composer and conductor, and later commander of a colored regiment in the French Revolution, should,…

  • Racial Passing

    Racial Passing Ohio State Law Journal Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law Vol. 62: 1145 (2001) Frank R. Strong Law Forum Lecture Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law Harvard Law School I. Passing: A Definition Passing is a deception that enables a person to adopt certain roles or identities from…

  • Beyond White Ethnicity: Developing a Sociological Understanding of Native American Identity Reclamation

    Beyond White Ethnicity: Developing a Sociological Understanding of Native American Identity Reclamation Lexington Books (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) October 2006 262 pages Cloth: 0-7391-1393-3 / 978-0-7391-1393-6 Paper: 0-7391-1394-1 / 978-0-7391-1394-3 Kathleen J. Fitzgerald, Professor of Sociology University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana Through qualitative analysis of individuals, Kathleen J. Fitzgerald studies the…

  • Rethinking inclusion and exclusion: the question of mixed-race presence in late colonial India

    Rethinking inclusion and exclusion: the question of mixed-race presence in late colonial India University of Sussex Journal of Contemporary History Issue Five 2002 pp. 1-22 Satoshi Mizutani This article examines the ambivalent meanings of mixed-race presence in late colonial India (from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries). In doing so it contributes insights for pursuing…

  • Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender, Culture and the Normalisation of Difference

    Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender, Culture and the Normalisation of Difference Berg Publishers September 2007 224 pages, bibliog., index Paperback ISBN: 9781845202439 Hardback ISBN: 9781845202422 Ebook ISBN: 9781847883438 Mica Nava, Professor of Cultural Studies University of East London Cultural theorist Mica Nava makes an original and significant contribution to the study of cosmopolitanism by exploring everyday English…

  • The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean

    The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean Duke University Press May 2005 408 pages 19 b&w photographs Cloth ISBN: 0-8223-3453-4, ISBN13 978-0-8223-3453-8 Paperback ISBN: 0-8223-3465-8, ISBN13 978-0-8223-3465-1 Doris Garraway, Associate Professor of French Northwestern University Presenting incisive original readings of French writing about the Caribbean from the inception of colonization in the 1640s…

  • Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

    As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in “The Souls of Black Folk,” the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial “order.” Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial “passing,” a practice through which subjects appropriate the terms…

  • Sex, Segregation, and the Sacred after Brown

    This article explores how religion served as a vessel for one particular language crucial to racial segregation in the South: the language of miscegenation. It was through sex that racial segregation in the South moved from being a local social practice to a part of the divine plan for the world. It was thus through…

  • The Age of Jim Crow

    The Age of Jim Crow W. W. Norton & Company October 2008 434 pages 5.4 × 8.2 in Paperback ISBN 978-0-393-92758-0 Jane Dailey, Associate Professor of American History University of Chicago America’s racial history has been marked by both hard-won progress and sudden reversals of fortune. In The Age of Jim Crow, Jane Dailey introduces…