Category: Media Archive

  • “Of Portuguese Origin”: Litigating Identity and Citizenship among the “Little Races” in Nineteenth-Century America Law and History Review 2007 Volume 25, Number 3 Ariela J. Gross, John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History University of Southern California The history of race in the nineteenth-century United States is often told as a…

  • Is race something we know when we see it? In 1857, Alexina Morrison, a slave in Louisiana, ran away from her master and surrendered herself to the parish jail for protection. Blue-eyed and blond, Morrison successfully convinced white society that she was one of them.

  • From exclusion and alienation to a ‘multi-racial community’: The image of the métis in New Caledonian literature International Journal of Francophone Studies ISSN: 13682679 Volume 8 Issue 3 December 2005 DOI: 10.1386/ijfs.8.3.305/1 Peter Brown  In her 2005 New Year’s greetings, Marie-Noëlle Thémereau, the President of the New Caledonian government, expressed her confidence in the future…

  • ‘Our sea of islands’: migration and métissage in contemporary Polynesian writing International Journal of Francophone Studies Volume 11, Issue 4 (December 2008) pages 503-522 DOI: 10.1386/ijfs.11.4.503_1 Michelle Keown, Senior Lecturer of English Literature University of Edinburgh This article explores metaphors of oceanic migration in contemporary Polynesian writing, investigating the notion of a regional ‘Oceanic’ identity…

  • Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption Vintage an imprint of Random House, Inc. Academic Resources 2003 688 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-375-70264-8 (0-375-70264-4) Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law Harvard Law School From the author of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word and Race, Crime, and the Law—a tour de force…

  • Crossing Lines: Race and Mixed Race Across the Geohistorical Divide Rowman & Littlefield Paper: 0-9700-3841-0 / 978-0-9700-3841-8 June 2005 190 pages Edited by Marc Coronado DeAnza College Rudy P. Guevarra University of California, Santa Barbara Jeffrey A. S. Moniz, Associate Professor and Director University of Hawai’i Laura Furlan Szanto University of California, Santa Barbara Crossing…

  • The Woman of Colour Broadview Press 2007-01-01 268 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781551111766 / 1551111764 Written by: Anonymous Edited by: Lyndon J. Dominique, Assistant Professor of English Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania The Woman of Colour is a unique literary account of a black heiress’ life immediately after the abolition of the British slave trade. Olivia Fairfield,…

  • Since the early days of Hollywood film, portrayals of interracial romance and of individuals of mixed racial and ethnic heritage have served to highlight and challenge fault lines within Hollywood and the nation’s racial categories and borders.

  • Mixed-Race Identities American Psychology Association Item #: 4310742 ISBN: 1-59147-365-9 ISBN 13: 978-1-59147-365-7 Running Time: Over 100 minutes Format: DVD With Maria P. P. Root, PhD Hosted by John Carlson, PsyD, EdD Part of the Multicultural Counseling APA Psychotherapy Video Series About the Video In Mixed-Race Identities, Dr. Maria P. P. Root demonstrates her approach…

  • Mixed-Race Identity Politics in Nella Larsen and Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna) Ohio University English (Arts and Sciences) Department November 2001 217 pages Advisor: David Dean McWilliams Sachi Nakachi A dissertation presented to the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences of Ohio University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of…