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  • The genealogical imagination: the inheritance of interracial identities

    The genealogical imagination: the inheritance of interracial identities The Sociological Review Volume 53, Issue 3 (August 2005) pages 476–494 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2005.00562.x Katharine Tyler, Lecturer in Race and Ethnicity Department of Sociology University of Surrey The aim of this article is to examine ethnographically how ideas of descent, biology and culture mediate ideas about the inheritance…

  • The New Nadir: The Political Economy of the Contemporary Black Racial Formation

    The New Nadir: The Political Economy of the Contemporary Black Racial Formation The Black Scholar 2010-03-22 Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign IN “THE NEW NADIR: The Political Economy of the Contemporary Black Racial Formation,” using the Marxist method of historical materialism analyze the period after…

  • Making Multiracials: State, Family, And Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line [Book Review]

    Making Multiracials: State, Family, And Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line [Book Review] The Black Scholar 2010-03-22 Alexes Harris, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Washington Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line, by Kimberly McClain DaCosta (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007; $30.95, paper, 280 pp; ISBN…

  • Les Enfants de la colonie: Les métis de l’Empire français entre sujétion et citoyenneté [Book Review]

    Les Enfants de la colonie: Les métis de l’Empire français entre sujétion et citoyenneté [Book Review] H-France Review (Society for French Historical Studies) Volume 8, Number 162 (November 2008) pages 654-657 Marie-Paule Ha The University of Hong Kong Emmanuelle Saada, Les Enfants de la colonie: Les métis de l’Empire français entre sujétion et citoyenneté. Paris: Editions…

  • Identity, Discrimination and Violence in Bessie Head’s Trilogy

    Identity, Discrimination and Violence in Bessie Head’s Trilogy University of South Africa November 2002 71 pages Corwin Luthuli Mhlahlo Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the subject of English This dissertation seeks to explore the perceived intricate relationship that exists between constructed identity, discrimination and violence…

  • Author Interview: Neela Vaswani

    Author Interview: Neela Vaswani Sarabane Books 2010-07-19 The lovely Neela Vaswani takes a moment to chat with us about her new book, You Have Given Me a Country, out August 15 [2010]. Your previous book, Where the Long Grass Bends, was a collection of short stories with a strongly mythic cast, and your memoir is…

  • Where The Long Grass Bends

    Where The Long Grass Bends Sarabande Books 2004-01-01 192 pages 9 x 6 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-889330-96-9 Neela Vaswani, Teacher in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program Spalding University Debut collection from a lyrical writer of Indian and Irish descent. Fervent. Lyrical. Animistic. Incantatory… Where the Long Grass Bends succumbs to no summary. It is…

  • How Multi-Ethnic People Identify Themselves

    How Multi-Ethnic People Identify Themselves Talk of The Nation National Public Radio 2010-12-20 00:30:17 Neal Conan, Host Guests Nikki Khanna, Assistant Professor of Sociology (and lead author, “Passing As Black: Racial Identity Work Among Biracial Americans”) University of Vermont Casey Gane-McCalla, Lead Blogger NewsOne Kip Fulbeck, Professor of Art (and author of Mixed: Portraits Of…

  • 2010 Census Data Products: United States (At a Glance – Version 1.0)

    2010 Census Data Products: United States (At a Glance – Version 1.0) Planned Release date: 2011-02-01 through 2011-03-31 Product: 2010 Census Redistricting Data (P.L. 94-171) Summary File by State Category: State population counts for race and Hispanic or Latino categories / State housing unit counts by occupancy status (occupied units, vacant units) Lowest Level Geography:…

  • Race-Mixing, Radicalism, and Reimaginating the Nation

    Race-Mixing, Radicalism, and Reimaginating the Nation Journal of Women’s History Volume 22, Number 4, Winter 2010 pages 253-256 E-ISSN: 1527-2036, Print ISSN: 1042-7961 Hilary Jones, Assistant Professor of African History University of Maryland The title of Kumari Jayawardena’s monograph, Erasure of the Euro-Asian, reveals the degree to which people of mixed racial ancestry have been…