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  • Through a Glass Darkly: The Persistence of Race in Education Research & Scholarship

    Through a Glass Darkly: The Persistence of Race in Education Research & Scholarship Educational Researcher Volume 41, Number 4 (May 2012) Pages 115-120 DOI: 10.3102/0013189X12440743 Gloria Ladson-Billings, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison Although education researchers understand that race is a problematic concept of spurious value, the concept…

  • A Classic Study of the History of Caribbean Women

    A Classic Study of the History of Caribbean Women H-Caribbean Reviews, H-Net Reviews December 2008 Barbara Bush Lucille Mathurin Mair. A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655-1844. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2006. 496 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-976-640-166-5; (paper), ISBN 978-976-640-178-8. I first encountered Lucille Mathurin Mair’s work during the 1970s…

  • Cultural Inversion and the One-Drop Rule: An Essay on Biology, Racial Classification, and the Rhetoric of Racial Transcendence

    In this article, my thesis is simple. If racial caste has been upended by changes in legal rules that created a hierarchical racial structure, its demise also has been hastened by the use of symbols, a strategy of cultural inversion with respect to the meaning of race.

  • Marcia Dawkins, Author of “Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing” on Mixed Race Radio

    Marcia Dawkins, Author of “Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing” on Mixed Race Radio Mixed Race Radio Blogtalkradio 2012-05-02, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Marcia Dawkins’ book, Clearly Invisible and the Color of Cultural Identity (Baylor University Press, 2012), is the first to connect racial passing and classical…

  • Constructing Afro-Cuban Womanhood: Race, Gender, and Citizenship in Republican-Era Cuba, 1902-1958

    Constructing Afro-Cuban Womanhood: Race, Gender, and Citizenship in Republican-Era Cuba, 1902-1958 University of Texas, Austin 343 pages August 2011 Takkara Keosha Brunson Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy This dissertation explores continuities…

  • How Scuffletown Became Indian Country: Political Change and Transformations in Indian identity in Robeson County, North Carolina, 1865-1956

    How Scuffletown Became Indian Country: Political Change and Transformations in Indian identity in Robeson County, North Carolina, 1865-1956 University of Washington 2008 267 pages Publication Number: AAT 3328369 ISBN: 9780549817246 Anna Bailey A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy According to census reports, there were no…

  • Cultural Reconstruction: Nation, Race, and the Invention of the American Magazine, 1830-1915

    Cultural Reconstruction: Nation, Race, and the Invention of the American Magazine, 1830-1915 University of Maryland 2003-12-19 504 pages Reynolds J. Scott-Childress, Assistant Professor of History New Paltz, State University of New York Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree…

  • BLACK, TRIGUEÑO, WHITE…? Shifting Racial Identification among Puerto Ricans

    BLACK, TRIGUEÑO, WHITE…? Shifting Racial Identification among Puerto Ricans Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 2, Issue 2 (2005) pages 267-285 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X05050186 Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Research Associate Center for Puerto Rican Studies Hunter College, City University of New York The use of U.S.-oriented racial categories in the 2000 decennial census conducted by…

  • Brian Bantum Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Brian Bantum Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (Founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode 254: Brian Bantum When: Wednesday, 2012-05-02, 21:00Z (17:00 EDT, 14:00 PDT) Brian Bantum, Associate Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific…

  • A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655–1844

    A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655–1844 University of The West Indies Press 2006 400 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-976-640-178-8 Author: Lucille Mathurin Mair (1925-2009) Edited by: Hilary McD. Beckles, Principal University of The West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados Verene A. Shepherd, University Director Centre for Gender & Dev Std-RC: Centre Research/Teaching…