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  • Book review: What’s the use of race? Modern governance and the biology of difference

    Book review: What’s the use of race? Modern governance and the biology of difference BioNews Number 634 (2011-11-21) Dr. Rachael Panizzo Decoding the human genome has revealed details of our evolution and patterns of migration across the world. The study of genetic diversity between ethnic groups can help explain the ways in which race influences…

  • Race—Social or Biological?

    Race—Social or Biological? International Socialist Review Volume 21, Number 1 (Winter 1960) pages 26-27 David Dreiser Caste, Class & Race, by Oliver Cromwell Cox  Monthly Review Press, New York. 1959. 600 pp. This penetrating and scholarly work originally appeared in 1948 and it is a well-deserved recognition of the author and a happy occasion for…

  • The Negro Problem: Black and White in the Southern States: A Study of the Race Problem in the United States from a South African Point of View by M. S. Evans; The Mulatto in the United States, Including a Study of the Role of Mixed-Blood Races throughout the World by E. B. Reuter Review by: Ellsworth Huntington

    The Negro Problem: Black and White in the Southern States: A Study of the Race Problem in the United States from a South African Point of View by M. S. Evans; The Mulatto in the United States, Including a Study of the Role of Mixed-Blood Races throughout the World by E. B. Reuter Review by:…

  • Escape into Whiteness

    Escape into Whiteness The New York Review of Books 2011-11-24 Brent Staples Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. 415 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9781594202827. Tickets to the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial were a hot item in the spring of…

  • Showing Her Colors: An Afro-German Writes the Blues in Black and White

    Showing Her Colors: An Afro-German Writes the Blues in Black and White Callaloo Volume 26, Number 2, Spring 2003 pages 306-319 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2003.0045 Karein Kirsten Goertz, Lecturer of Germanic Language and Literature University of Michigan This essay undertakes a detailed analysis of May Ayim’s Blues in Schwarz Weiss and examines her development of what she…

  • Review: Giller winner recounts struggles of mixed-race jazz musicians in prewar Europe

    Review: Giller winner recounts struggles of mixed-race jazz musicians in prewar Europe Ottowa Citizen 2011-11-09 Julian Gunn Half-Blood Blues By Esi Edugyan, Thomas Allen, 2011. I remember waiting for a bus and listening to a literary podcast when I heard that Victoria, B.C. author Esi Edugyan’s second novel, Half-Blood Blues, had made the Man Booker…

  • Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix [Review: Glazier]

    Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix [Review: Glazier] Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries Volume 49, Number 2 (October 2011) Steven D. Glazier, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology University of Nebraska, Lincoln Spencer, Rainier. Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix. L. Rienner, 2011. 355p bibl index afp ISBN 9781588267511. Spencer’s insightful analysis and critique…

  • Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix [Review: Harman]

    Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix [Review: Harman] Ethnic and Racial Studies Available online: 2011-10-21 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.623133 Vicki Harman, Lecturer in the Centre for Criminology and Sociology Royal Holloway, University of London Rainier Spencer. Reproduction Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix, Boulder, CO: Lyne Rienner Publishers, 2010, 355 pp. From the outset, Reproducing Race…

  • Desdemona’s Fire – Review

    Desdemona’s Fire – Review African American Review Volume 35, Number 2 (Summer 2001) pages 342-343 Lesley Wheeler, Henry S. Fox Professor of English Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia Ruth Ellen Kocher. Desdemona’s Fire. Detroit: Lotus P, 1999. 62 pp. This shapely first collection, 1999 winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, rises with…

  • 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…