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  • A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy

    “A White Side of Black Britain” explores the racial consciousness of white women in the United Kingdom who have established families and had children with black men of African Caribbean heritage. Filling a gap in the sociological literature on racism and antiracism, France Winddance Twine introduces new theoretical concepts in her description and analysis of…

  • Issues for Racially Diverse Families

    Issues for Racially Diverse Families A Research Project for the Capital Region Race Relations Association, Victoria [Canada] 2003 41 pages Elias Cheboud (1959-2010), Adjunct Professor of Social Work University of Victoria, Canada Christine Downing, Project Coordinator Multiracial Family Project This report explores the experience of members of racially mixed families in Victoria, BC. Six themes…

  • Patterns of Situational Identity Among Biracial and Multiracial College Students

    Patterns of Situational Identity Among Biracial and Multiracial College Students The Review of Higher Education Volume 23, Number 4 (Summer 2000) pages 399–420 E-ISSN: 1090-7009, Print ISSN: 0162-5748 DOI: 10.1353/rhe.2000.0019 Kristen A. Renn, Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education Michigan State University Using qualitative grounded theory framed by postmodern racial identity theory, the…

  • The Planter’s Fictions: Identity, Intimacy, and the Negotiations of Power in Colonial Jamaica

    The Planter’s Fictions: Identity, Intimacy, and the Negotiations of Power in Colonial Jamaica University of Victoria, Canada 2010 127 pages Meleisa Ono-George A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Masters of Art In the Department of History By the latter quarter of the eighteenth century, as the movement against…

  • Trans/formative identities: narrations of decolonization in mixed-race and transgender lives

    Trans/formative identities: narrations of decolonization in mixed-race and transgender lives University of Victoria 2007 114 pages Sarah E. Hunt A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Interdisciplinary in the Department of Women’s Studies and the Department of Anthropology This interdisciplinary research paper explores story and metaphor…

  • Memorandum Concerning the Characteristics of the Larger Mixed-Blood Racial Islands of the Eastern United States

    In many of the eastern States of this country there are small pockets of peoples who arc scattered here and there in different counties and who are complex mixtures in varying degrees of white, Indian, and Negro blood. These small local groups seem to develop especially where environmental circumstances such as forbidding swamps or inaccessible and…

  • Brass Ankles Speak

    Brass Ankles Speak Essays by Alice Dunbar-Nelson circa 1929 Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) Prefatory Note by Gloria T. Hull Entitled “Brass Ankles Speaks” (Vol. 2, WADN), it is an outspoken denunciation of darker skinned black people’s prejudice against light-skinned blacks told by a “brass ankles,” a black person “white enough to pass for white, but with…

  • The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson (Volume 1)

    The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson (Volume 1) Oxford University Press 1988 480 pages 4-5/8 x 6-1/2 Hardback ISBN13: 978-0-19-505250-3; ISBN10: 0-19-505250-1 Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) Edited by Gloria Hull Spanning the gamut of literary genres, from autobiographical short stories to poetry, journalism, and novelettes, this is a comprehensive collection of one of America’s most seminal women…

  • Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted

    Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted 1893 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Project Gutenberg EBook 2004-05-14 #12352 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) Read the entire book here.

  • Anglo-Indians in Hollywood, Bollywood and Arthouse Cinema

    Anglo-Indians in Hollywood, Bollywood and Arthouse Cinema Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 1 (February 2007) pages 55-68 DOI: 10.1080/07256860601082939 Glenn D’Cruz, Senior Lecturer of Performance Studies Deakin University, Australia Apart from a few disparaging remarks about offensive stereotypes by Anglo-Indian writers and politicians such as Gloria Jean Moore, Frank Anthony and Gillian Hart,…