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  • Negotiating Honor: Women and Slavery in Caracas, 1750-1854

    Negotiating Honor: Women and Slavery in Caracas, 1750-1854 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque May 2011 214 pages Sue E. Taylor A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History This study examines three interrelated groups—female slaves, female slave owners, and free women of African heritage—living in the…

  • Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

    Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba Cambridge University Press (available in the United States at University of Michigan Press here.) August 1974 224 pages 216 x 140 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521098465 Verena Martinez-Alier (a.k.a. Verena Stolcke), Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona An analysis of marriage patterns in nineteenth-century Cuba, a society…

  • Interracialism and Contemporary Religion

    Interracialism and Contemporary Religion Oklahoma State University 2007 105 pages AAT 1443028 Wayne S. White Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate College of the Oklahoma State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science The purpose of this study was to examine the myths and theories related to…

  • The Wormiest of Cans: who gets to be “mixed race”?

    The Wormiest of Cans: who gets to be “mixed race”? Racialicious 2011-07-12 Thea Lim A few days ago on Facebook I watched two community activists have a throwdown over the phrase “mixed race.” It began when Activist X posted a link to this article about the Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival and noted with…

  • Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius

    Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius Duke University Press 2004 360 pages 5 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-3402-6 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-3399-9 Megan Vaughan, Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History Cambridge University The island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 550 miles east of Madagascar. Uninhabited until the arrival of colonists…

  • The Love Story That Made Marriage a Fundamental Right

    The Love Story That Made Marriage a Fundamental Right Color Lines 2011-04-27 Asraa Mustufa The Tribeca Film Festival is under way in New York, and one featured documentary delves into the story behind the landmark civil rights case Loving vs. Virginia, which struck down Jim Crow laws meant to prevent people from openly building families…

  • The New Face of America: How the Emerging Multiracial, Multiethnic Majority is Changing the United States

    The New Face of America: How the Emerging Multiracial, Multiethnic Majority is Changing the United States Praeger Publishers May 2013 195 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-313-38569-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-313-38570-4 Eric J. Bailey, Professor of Anthropology and Public Health East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina This unique and important book investigates what…

  • Gender, Mixed Race Relations and Dougla Identities in Indo-Caribbean Women’s Fiction

    Gender, Mixed Race Relations and Dougla Identities in Indo-Caribbean Women’s Fiction 6th International Conference of Caribbean Women’s Writing: Comparative Critical Conversations Goldsmiths, University of London Centre for Caribbean Studies 2011-06-24 through 2011-06-25 Christine Vogt-William Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany Once a pejorative term in Hindi meaning ‘bastard’, dougla is used nowadays to designate those…

  • Rebuilding the Tower of Babel

    Rebuilding the Tower of Babel Pelican Publishing Company, New Orleans 1957 24 pages Source: Digital Collections of the University of Southern Mississippi Libraries USM Identifier: mus-mcc030 Stuart O. Landry From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; In this pamphlet, Landry asserts that integrationists are trying to reunite the races that God separated in the Old…

  • The Missing Bi-racial Child in Hollywood

    The Missing Bi-racial Child in Hollywood Canadian Review of American Studies Volume 37, Number 2 (2007) pages 239-263 E-ISSN: 1710-114X; Print ISSN: 0007-7720 Naomi Angel The growing interest in issues pertaining to “mixed-race” identities and communities, as well as a surge in films with “mixed-race” characters has prompted this examination of representations of “mixedrace” characters…