Category: Media Archive

  • The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain: Native American Mill Worker (review) Studies in American Indian Literatures Volume 24, Number 3, Fall 2012 pages 138-141 DOI: 10.1353/ail.2012.0035 Margaret M. Bruchac By reconstructing the life history of Betsey Guppy Chamberlain (1797–1866), historian and librarian Judith Ranta has done some fine detective work that illuminates an otherwise…

  • Bringing together our collective stories The African Courier: The International Magazine Published in Germany October/November 2012 Gyavira Lasana The second annual convention of the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey took place at Barnard College in New York City recently. Our New York-based contributing editor Gyavira Lasana reports on the convention, which focused on…

  • Essence and the Mulatto Traveler: Europe as Embodiment in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand The Journal of Transnational American Studies Volume 4, Number 1 (2012) 15 pages Jeffrey H. Gray, Professor of English Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey Originally published as Jeffrey Gray, “Essence and the Mulatto Traveler: Europe as Embodiment in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand,”…

  • Chinese-Mexicans celebrate repatriation to Mexico Silicon Valley Mercury News 2012-11-24 Olga R. Rodriguez, Mexican Correspondent Associated Press MEXICO CITY—Juan Chiu Trujillo was 5 years old when he left his native Mexico for a visit to his father’s hometown in southern China. He was 35 when he returned. As Chiu vacationed with his parents, brother and…

  • Black Faces, White Deeds: The Miracles of Ancient Ethiopian Saints in the Early Modern Catholic Atlantic 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 Thursday, 2013-01-03: 16:10 CST (Local Time) Preservation Hall, Studio 3 (New Orleans Marriott) From Session AHA Session 31: Saintly Translations: Stories about Saints across Time…

  • The Mischling Experience in Oral History The Oral History Review Volume 35, Issue 2 (2008) pages 139-158 DOI: 10.1093/ohr/ohn025 Peter Monteath, Associate Professor of History Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia This paper examines the usefulness of oral history in dealing with the fate of the so-called Mischlinge in Nazi Germany; that is, people categorized by the…

  • Critical Theories: Hybridity and African Diaspora Rutgers University, Newark Spring 2013 Belinda Edmondson, Professor and Director, Women’s & Gender Studies This course will investigate the concept of the hybrid society, or “hybridity”, in African-American and Caribbean literature. Hybridity here refers to both culturally and ethnically hybrid communities and peoples. Specifically, we will concentrate on the…

  • FYS 102N – Exploring Mixed Identities University of Maryland, Baltimore County Honors College Summer 2012 Jessica Guzman-Rea The aim of this course is to move beyond prevalent monoracial discourses by examining identities and experiences from a mixed race/mixed ethnicity perspective. This course explores many topics such as the history of racialization, processes of othering, acceptance…

  • ES 3434: Mixed Race Identities California State University, East Bay 2012-2013 Examination of mixed race peoples—their legal and social status, U.S. Census designations, and identities from the one-drop rule to President Obama and beyond. The social science complement to ES 3430, Interracial Sex and Marriage.

  • AFR 108: What Passes for Freedom?: Mixed-Race Figures in U.S. Culture Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts Spring 2013 Cross Listed as AMST107, ENGL108 Vincent J. Schleitwiler, Assistant Professor of English The idea of a distinct category of individuals identified as “biracial,” “multiracial,” or “mixed-race” has become increasingly prominent over the past few decades, despite the inescapable…