Category: Media Archive

  • In this collection of poetry, prose, and personal essay, both new and well-known women authors of mixed race ancestry examine history, culture, and identity using insight from the female psyche.

  • Me: A Book of Remembrance University Press of Mississippi 1997 (Originally published in 1915) 368 pages Cloth ISBN: 0878059911 (9780878059911) Paper ISBN: 087805992X (9780878059928) Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954) Afterword by: Linda Trinh Moser, Professor of English Missouri State University A Chinese-Eurasian’s autobiographical novel tracing a woman’s dual quest for a writing career and romance Ironically, Winnifred…

  • The Last Plantation: Color, Conflict, and Identity: Reflections of a New World Black Houghton Mifflin 1997-02-10 307 pages Hardback ISBN-10: 0395771919; ISBN-13: 978-0395771914 Itabari Njeri In the 1980s, when most Americans considered “black” a racial reference, many multiracial people began to see themselves as part of a heterogeneous ethnic group linked by history, culture, and…

  • Edward Ball tells the story of southern slavery through tracking the history of the Balls, prominent landowners, rice-planters, one or two of them slave traders, and big slave owners in a southern family in dispersal and decline.

  • Namako: Sea Cucumber Coffee House Press September 1998 256 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1566890756; ISBN-13: 978-1566890755 Linda Watanabe McFerrin “McFerrin’s first novel paints a portrait of a truly multicultural family—a Scottish father, a half-British and half-Japanese mother, and four children… McFerrin’s writing is thoughtful and smooth as she captures ever-changing images of the world around Ellen…

  • Racialisation in Jamaica Mapping Global Racisms Project (2012- ) University of Leeds Working Papers 13 pages Benjamin Joyce Introduction The processes of racialisation in Jamaica reflect a complex and sustained ideological grounding upon colonial logics which actively repress perceived racial otherness. Despite the insistence of governmental institutions and the projected image of a raceless nation,…

  • Oysters made Hampton man wealthy Daily Press Newport News, Virginia 2013-02-17 Mark St. John Erickson, Columnist Even before the Civil War, Hampton’s busy waterfront boasted many free blacks who made their living as pilots, fishermen and boatmen. Living side by side with whites who worked in the same maritime trades, they included such figures as…

  • More Thoughts on The Magic Mulatto Myth The Magic Mulatto: Bringing the fine art of Race Talk straight to the people 2013-01-29 Brett Russell Coleman Elsewhere on this blog I have described the trope or myth of the magic mulatto (see the “about” page, for example, or this post about Frank Schaeffer). To my surprise,…

  • Prisoners of Abstraction? The Theory and Measure of Genetic Variation, and the Very Concept of “Race” Biological Theory July 2012 12 pages DOI: 10.1007/s13752-012-0048-0 Jonathan Michael Kaplan, Associate Professor of Philosophy Oregon State University Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of California, Santa Cruz It is illegitimate to read any ontology about “race”…

  • Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama City Lights Books 2009-01-15 120 pages Paperback ISBN-10 0872865002; ISBN-13 9780872865006 Tim Wise Race is, and always has been, an explosive issue in the United States. In this timely new book, Tim Wise explores how Barack Obama’s emergence as a…