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  • The ‘Native’ Undefined: Colonial Categories, Anglo-African Status and the Politics of Kinship in British Central Africa, 1929-38

    The ‘Native’ Undefined: Colonial Categories, Anglo-African Status and the Politics of Kinship in British Central Africa, 1929-38 The Journal of African History Volume 46, Issue 3 (2005) pages 455-478 DOI: 10.1017/S0021853705000861 Christopher Joon-Hai Lee University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill This article examines the categorical problem that persons of ‘mixed-race’ background presented to British administrations…

  • The Chinese Mestizos and the Formation of the Filipino Nationality

    The Chinese Mestizos and the Formation of the Filipino Nationality Archipel Volume 32, 1986 pages 141-162 DOI: 10.3406/arch.1986.2316 Antonio S. Tan The recorded history of the Philippines would be incomplete as a basis for understanding contemporary society unless it takes into account the Chinese mestizos’ contributions to our development as a nation.  The Chinese mestizos…

  • The Chinese Mestizo in Philippine History

    The Chinese Mestizo in Philippine History The Journal of Southeast Asian History Volume 5, Number 1 (March 1964) pages 62-100 DOI: 10.1017/S0217781100002222 Edgar Wickberg (1927-2008), Professor Emeritus of History University of British Columbia Our knowledge is still insufficient to allow us to assess the overall significance of the mestizo in Philippine history. But on the…

  • Mestizo Nations: Culture, Race, and Conformity in Latin American Literature

    In Mestizo Nations, Juan De Castro explores the construction of nationality in Latin American and Chicano literature and thought during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing on the discourse of mestizaje—which proposes the creation of a homogenous culture out of American Indian, black, and Iberian elements—he examines a selection of texts that represent the entire…

  • The Invisible Weight of Whiteness: The Racial Grammar of Everyday Life in Contemporary America (Lecture by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva)

    The Invisible Weight of Whiteness: The Racial Grammar of Everyday Life in Contemporary America (Lecture by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva) Fall 2010 Honors Colloquium: RACE University of Rhode Island Edwards Auditorium, URI Kingston Campus Tuesday, 2010-10-12, 19:00 ET (Local Time); (23:00Z) Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University A series of public programs at the University of…

  • Race, Identity, and Medical Genomics in the Obama Age (Lecture by Duana Fullwiley)

    Race, Identity, and Medical Genomics in the Obama Age (Lecture by Duana Fullwiley) Fall 2010 Honors Colloquium: RACE University of Rhode Island Edwards Auditorium, URI Kingston Campus Tuesday, 2010-10-05, 19:00 ET (Local Time); (23:00Z) Duana Fullwiley, Assistant Professor of African and African American studies and of Medical Anthropology Harvard University A series of public programs…

  • Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991

    Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991 Duke University Press 2000 424 pages 21 b&w photographs, 2 maps, 1 table Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2385-3 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2420-1 Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected…

  • “Girl, You Are Not Morena. We Are Negras!”: Questioning the Concept of “Race” in Southern Bahia, Brazil

    “Girl, You Are Not Morena. We Are Negras!”: Questioning the Concept of “Race” in Southern Bahia, Brazil Ethos Volume 35, Issue 3 (September 2007) pages 383-409 DOI: 10.1525/eth.2007.35.3.383 Michael D. Baran, Preceptor in Expository Writing Harvard University In 2003, teachers at the municipal high school in Belmonte, Brazil, began presenting students with a radically different…

  • The Melungeon Identity Movement and the Construction of Appalachian Whiteness

    The Melungeon Identity Movement and the Construction of Appalachian Whiteness Journal of Linguistic Anthropology Volume 11, Issue 1 (June 2001) pages 131-146 DOI: 10.1525/jlin.2001.11.1.131 Anita Puckett, Associate Professor of Appalachian Studies Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University How this binary system is discursively constituted depends upon the ways in which elements of a repertoire interconnect…

  • Ethnic Studies 064: Mixed Race Descent in the Americas

    Ethnic Studies 064: Mixed Race Descent in the Americas Mills College, Oakland, California Fall 2010 Melinda Micco, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies This is an introductory course that examines the historical and theoretical development of identities and of communities of multiracial and multiethnic people. In the academy, in government, and in popular culture, the lives…