Category: Media Archive

  • Naming the Subject: Recovering “Euro-Asian” History Journal of Women’s History Volume 22, Number 4, Winter 2010 pages 257-262 E-ISSN: 1527-2036, Print ISSN: 1042-7961 Emma J. Teng, T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations; Associate Professor of Chinese Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology The historic election of Barack Obama as America’s first biracial president…

  • Being Eurasian: Memories across Racial Divides by Vicky Lee [Book Review] The Asian Review of Books 2004-12-29 John Walsh, Assistant Professor of Marketing and Communications School of Management, Shinawatra International University, Bangkok The creation of Empires inevitably entails contact between coloniser and colonised at many different levels. Owing to the prominence of men in empire…

  • Erasure of Euro-Asian: Recovering Early Radicalism and Feminism in South Asia Women Unlimited 2009 312 pages 8.6 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches ISBN-10: 8188965405; ISBN-13: 978-8188965403 Kumari Jayawardena, Emeritus Associate Professor University of Colombo This book, focuses on the interaction between Asia and Europe in the wake of Portuguese, Dutch, French and British imperialism. It…

  • Many Biracial Students Game Racial-Classification Systems, Study Suggests The Chronicle of Higher Education 2010-12-14 Peter Schmidt A study of biracial people with black and white ancestry has found that many identify themselves solely as black when filling out college applications and financial-aid forms, raising new questions about the accuracy of educational statistics and research based…

  • Passing as Black: Racial Identity Work among Biracial Americans Social Psychology Quarterly Volume 73, Number 4 (Published online 2010-12-13) pages 380-397 DOI: 10.1177/0190272510389014 Nikki Khanna, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Vermont Cathryn Johnson, Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies Emory University Drawing on interview data with black-white biracial adults, we examine the…

  • North of America: Racial hybridity and Canada’s (non)place in inter-American discourse Comparative American Studies: An International Journal Volume 3, Number 1 (March 2005) pages 79-88 DOI: 10.1177/1477570005050951 Albert Braz, Associate Professor of English University of Alberta, Canada Canada is one of the largest countries in the Americas, indeed the world. Yet, for such a territorial…

  • Recasting The Half-Caste Journal of Women’s History Volume 22, Number 4, Winter 2010 E-ISSN: 1527-2036 Print ISSN: 1042-7961 pages 263-267 Kumari Jayawardena In Sri Lanka, serious book reviews are not only few and far between, but authors also do not usually reply to reviews of their books. So while it was a real windfall to…

  • Passing as Black: How Biracial Americans Choose Identity Time Magazine: Healthland Friday, 2010-12-16 Meredith Melnick, Reporter and Producer The practice of passing—identifying with and presenting oneself as one race while denying ancestry of another—reached its peak during the Jim Crow era. Needless to say, the notion of having to “pass” as white is outdated and…

  • Hybridity in Cooper, Mitchell and Randall: Erasures, Rewritings, and American Historical Mythology McGill University, Montreal Department of English August, 2004 86 pages Marie Thormodsgard Submitted in partial fulfillment for a Masters degree in English This thesis starts with an overview of the historical record tied to the birth of a new nation studied by Alexis…

  • Métis, mixed-ness and music: Aboriginal-Ukrainian encounters and cultural production on the Canadian prairies The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies University of Washington Canadian Studies Center Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall Wednesday, 2011-04-20 19:00 PDT (Local Time) Marcia Ostashewski, Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canadian Studies Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal intermarriages, often described as “mixed-race,” have been the…