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  • Four years later, Barack Obama still a mystery in some ways

    Four years later, Barack Obama still a mystery in some ways The Dallas Morning News 2012-09-01 From staff and wire reports File: The welcome in Austin in 2007 was warm and Texan for presidential candidate Barack Obama. Still somewhat unknown Even after four years as president, Barack Hussein Obama remains unknown in some ways. He…

  • Latin America and mixed heritage

    Latin America and mixed heritage The Prisma: The Multicultural Newspaper Westwood Hill, London, United Kingdom 2012-08-27 Claudio Chipana (Translated by Viv Griffiths) “…we are neither Indian, nor European, but a species lying somewhere in between the legitimate owners of the land and the Spanish usurpers…” Simon Bolivar (Letter from Jamaica). People of mixed heritage, mestizos,…

  • Roots: Saint Lucia’s Hindu Legacy

    Roots: Saint Lucia’s Hindu Legacy Hinduism Today October/November/December 2012 Gajanan Nataraj Saint Lucia I am a Saint Lucian citizen. I was born in the US Virgin Islands and lived briefly on the mainland (USA), but for the better part of 23 years I was raised on the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. I am roughly two-quarters…

  • Latinos may get own race category on census form

    Latinos may get own race category on census form The Seattle Times 2012-08-30 Lornet Turnbull, Staff Reporter Under proposed changes under consideration by the Census Bureau in its once-a-decade census forms, Latino and Hispanic would be added to the list of government-defined races, rather than being listed separately as an ethnicity. And people from the…

  • Passing for Black: The Life and Careers of Mae Street Kidd

    In 1976, Kentucky state legislator Mae Street Kidd successfully sponsored a resolution ratifying the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution. It was fitting that a black woman should initiate the state’s formal repudiation of slavery; that it was Mrs. Kidd was all the more appropriate.

  • Strangers in Blood: Relocating Race in the Renaissance

    Strangers in Blood: Relocating Race in the Renaissance University of Toronto Press October 2010 272 pages Cloth ISBN: 9781442641402 eBook ISBN: ISBN 9781442660083 Jean E. Feerick, Assistant Professor of English Brown University Strangers in Blood explores, in a range of early modern literature, the association between migration to foreign lands and the moral and physical…

  • Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America

    Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America Oxford University Press April 2011 240 pages Hardback ISBN13: 9780195385854; ISBN10: 0195385853 Ayanna Thompson, Professor of English Arizona State University Notions, constructions, and performances of race continue to define the contemporary American experience, including America’s relationship to Shakespeare. In Passing Strange, Ayanna Thompson explores the myriad ways U.S.…

  • Miss., US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey to read poetry at JSU

    Miss., US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey to read poetry at JSU Clarion-Ledger Jackson, Mississippi 2012-08-21 Special to The Clarion-Ledger   Pulitzer Prize winner and current Mississippi and United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey will read her poetry at Jackson State University at 3 p.m. Sept. 20 in room 166/266 of the Dollye M.E. Robinson College…

  • “No more kiyams”: Métis women break the silence of child sexual abuse

    “No more kiyams”: Métis women break the silence of child sexual abuse University of Victoria,  British Columbia, Canada 2004 146 pages Lauralyn Houle A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK In the Faculty of Human and Social Development “No more kiyams” Métis women break the…

  • Henry Louis Rey, Spiritualism, and Creoles of Color in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

    Henry Louis Rey, Spiritualism, and Creoles of Color in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans University of New Orleans 2009-12-20 72 pages Melissa Daggett A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History This thesis is a biography of…