Category: Book/Video Reviews

  • Noting that free people of color never fully escaped the degrading effects of race-based slavery, David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine offer fourteen essays that explore women’s experiences of race, gender, and class in the slaveholding societies of the United States, the Caribbean, and South America.

  • Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community [Review] H-Net Reviews May 2007 Sean H. Jacobs University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Mohamed Adhikari. Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community. Africa Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. xvii + 252 pp. Paper…

  • White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity [Review] H-Net Reviews February 2010 Lorenzo Veracini Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond. White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Cloth ISBN 978-1-4039-7595-9. Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond has published a persuasive outline and contextualization of Brazilian “Race Democracy” advocate Gilberto Freyre. In a forthcoming book, I argue…

  • Being Black and White The American Prospect 2001-09-09   E. J. Graff, Associate Director and Senior Researcher The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black By Gregory Howard Williams. Plume (1996), 285 pages, paperback The Color…

  • A Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century (review) Journal of American Folklore Volume 124, Number 491 (Winter 2011) pages 120-121 E-ISSN: 1535-1882 Print ISSN: 0021-8715 Sharon Downey Varner Department of English University of South Alabama Hodes, Martha. A Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love,…

  • We Know Who We Are: Métis Identity in a Montana Community [Book Review] Drumlummon Views: the Online Journal of Montana Arts & Culture Volume 1, Numbers 1-2, (Spring/Summer 2006) pages 237-240 Nicholas C. P. Vrooman Martha Harroun Foster, We Know Who We Are: Métis Identity in a Montana Community, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2006.…

  • A shameful history: Nowhere People: How International Race Thinking Shaped Australia’s Identity [Book Review] The Lancet Volume 366, Issue 9495 (October 2005) page 1428 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67586 Caroline de Costa, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Director of the Clinical School James Cook University School of Medicine, Cairns Campus, North Queensland, Australia Nowhere People: How International Race…

  • A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America, edited by Frank Shuffelton (Oxford University Press, 1993) [Review] African American Review Volume 29, Number 1 (Spring 1995) pages 149-152 Raymond F. Dolle, Associate Professor of English Indiana State University A Mixed Race extends the recent work of ethnographic critics, such as James Clifford (The Predicament of Culture:…

  • Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, & American Law (Anderson review) The Catholic Historical Review Volume 97, Number 1 (January 2011) pages 179-180 E-ISSN: 1534-0708, Print ISSN: 0008-8080 R. Bentley Anderson, S. J. Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies Fordham University In Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, & American…

  • The Chinese in the Caribbean [Book Reveiw] Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 3, Issue 1 (Spring 2005) 8 paragraphs ISSN 1547-7150 Kathryn Morris Andrew R. Wilson, Editor. The Chinese in the Caribbean. Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2004, xxiii+230 pp. The Hakka are a migratory people. We move outwards on the tides of history. Most of…