Category: Book/Video Reviews

  • Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities (Book Review) Sites: a journal of social anthropology and cultural studies University of Otago, New Zealand Volume 5, Number 2 (2008) pages 180-182 Kate Bagnall Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities, Manying Ip, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2008, 255pp. ISBN 978-1-86940-399-7 Manying Ip makes it clear from the outset that Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities…

  • Tragic Mulatto Girl Wonder: The paradoxical life of Philippa Duke Schuyler QBR The Black Book Review February/March 1996 Lise Funderburg Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler by Kathryn Talalay Oxford University Press (317 pp.) Hardcover ISBN 0-19-509608-8 As a child prodigy, pianist and composer, Philippa Duke Schuyler incited both awe and…

  • Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Book Review) Pychiatric Services May 2003 Volume 54 Page 751 Published by The American Psychiatric Association Maureen Slade, R.N., M.S., Director of Psychiatry Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago Brendan Slade-Smith Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America by Kerry Ann Rockquemore and David L. Brunsma; Thousand Oaks,…

  • Interracial Intimacy and the Potential for Social Change Berkeley Women’s Law Journal University of California, Berkeley Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series 2002 pp. 153-164 Stephanie M. Wildman, Professor of Law and Director of Center for Social Justice and Public Service Santa Clara University School of Law Moran, Rachel F.  (2001).  Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation…

  • Book Review: Spencer, R. (1999). Spurious Issues: Race and Multiracial Identity Politics in the United States: Boulder, CO: Westview. Spencer, R. (2006). Challenging Multiracial ldentity. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Journal of Black Studies Volume 38, Number 4 (March 2008) pages 679-683 DOI: 10.1177/0021934706296761 Lewis R. Gordon, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy, Director of the…

  • The Alchemy of Mixed Race – Review Essay The Global Review of Ethnopolitics Vol. 2, no. 3-4 March/June 2003 pages 100-106 Ayo Mansaray University of Middlesex, UK Raiding the Gene Pool: The Social Construction of Mixed Race Jill Olumide Pluto Press, 2001 pp. 224 (including: foreword, notes, bibliography, index, appendix) Rethinking “Mixed Race” Parker &…

  • It was with joy and fear that I finished Henry Wiencek’s breathtaking saga, “The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White.” Joy, in that I was introduced to such a compelling cast of characters, set within riveting contexts, drawn with insight and erudition, illuminated by vivid, narrative that pulls the reader toward the important…

  • Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity (review) The American Indian Quarterly Volume 33, Number 4 Fall 2009 E-ISSN: 1534-1828 Print ISSN: 0095-182X DOI: 10.1353/aiq.0.0078 Gary C. Cheek Jr. Jolivétte, Andrew J., Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity, Lexington Books, 2006. “Who is white?” Jolivétte asks in the first chapter…

  • History, Trauma, and the Discursive Construction of “Race” in John Dominis Holt’s Waimea Summer Cultural Critique Number 47, Winter 2001 pages 167-214 DOI: 10.1353/cul.2001.0026 Susan Y. Najita, Associate Professor of English University of Michigan In contemporary discussions about the literature of Hawai’i and its decolonization, a central problematic resulting from on-going Euro-American imperialism is the…

  • The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis (Book Review) Journal of Southern History Vol. 67 2001 Lloyd A. Hunter Franklin College of Indiana The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis. By Cyprian Clamorgan. Edited and with an introduction by Julie Winch. (Columbia, Mo., and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 1999. Pp. xiv, 122. $27.50, ISBN 0-8262-1236-0.)…