Category: Book/Video Reviews

  • Books: Eight-Anna Girl Time Magazine 1954-03-29 Bhowani Junction (394 pp.)—John Masters—Viking In days gone by, when the sun never set on the British Empire, old India hands toted the white man’s burden, and Rudyard Kipling wrote about it in some 35 volumes of prose and poetry. Now that the burden has been lifted, many an…

  • Blinded By the Light; But Now I See Western New England Law Review Western New England College Volume 20, Issue 2 (1998) pages 491-504 Leonard M. Baynes, Professor of Law and Inaugural Director of The Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Development St. Johns University Introduction In the United States, interracial discrimination…

  • More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order [Book Review: Christian] The Western Journal of Black Studies Volume 27, Number 4 (2003) pages 279-280 Mark Christian, Professor & Chair of African & African American Studies Lehman College, City University of New York This book comes out the school of thought that advocates for…

  • Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? By G. Reginald Daniel. [Book Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 30, Number 6 (November 2007) pages 1167-1181 Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães Department of Sociology, University of Sao Paulo In his recent comparative study G. Reginald Daniel looks at the convergence in race relations…

  • Reading between the (Blood) Lines Southern California Law Review Volume 83, Number 3 (2010) pages 473-494 Rose Cuison Villazor, Professor of Law Hofstra University School of Law Legal scholars and historians have depicted the rule of hypodescent—that “one drop” of African blood categorized one as Black—as one of the powerful ways that law and society…

  • Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871–1921 (review) Canadian Journal of Law and Society Volume 25, Number 1, 2010 E-ISSN: 1911-0227 Print ISSN: 0829-3201 DOI: 10.1353/jls.0.0104 Eve Darian-Smith, Professor of Law and Society University of California, Santa Barbara Colonial Proximities is a scholarly, innovative, and illuminating exploration of law, race, and…

  • The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War [Book Review] H-Net Reviews 2002-01-23 Ethan S. Rafuse, Associate Professor of Military History United States Military Academy Victoria E. Bynum.“The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War”.  The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies.  Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press,…

  • “It’s a Kind of Destiny″: The Cultural Mulatto in the “New Black Aesthetic” and ‘Sarah Phillips’ The Humanities Review A Publication of St. John’s University English Department, Jamaica, New York Volume 6.1 (Fall 2007) pages 21-28 Habiba Ibrahim, Assistant Professor of English University of Washington An Essay IN “THE NEW BLACK AESTHETIC,” published in Callaloo…

  • Telling “Forgotten” Métis Histories through Family, Community, and Individuals [Book Review] H-Net Reviews October 2009 Camie Augustus University of Saskatchewan David McNab, Ute Lischke, eds. The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007. viii + 386 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-88920-523-9. “We are still here.” This opening…

  • The Social Experience of Mixed Race [Book Review] Jill Olumide. Raiding the Gene Pool: The Social Construction of Mixed Race. London: Pluto Press, 2002. xii + 212 pp., ISBN 978-0-7453-1764-9; ISBN 978-0-7453-1765-6. H-Net Online December 2002 Mohamed Adhikari, Lecturer of Historical Studies University of Cape Town, South Africa The author, a medical sociologist at the…