Category: Media Archive

  • Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa Honors A West Coast Black Seminole Leader Indian Voices January 2012 pages 7 & 11 Dr. Bruce Twyman On October 28th, 2011 Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa honored the Native American community of Southern California by hosting the cities’ annual American Indian Heritage Month celebration at city hall. A noteworthy and…

  • Raised in a Mexican home in an Anglo neighborhood, David Sánchez was fair-skinned and fluent in Spanish and English when he entered kindergarten. None of this should have had any influence on the career path he chose, but at certain moments it did. With the birth of the Chicano Movement and affirmative action, a different…

  • Opinion: What does Blackness look like? Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-01-21 Yaba Blay, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Editor’s note: Yaba Blay, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of Africana studies who teaches courses at Lafayette College. Her research focuses on black identity, with…

  • Crossing the color line Baylor University August 2011 107 pages Alisha Hash A Thesis Approved by the Department of History Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Baylor University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Miscegenation, a word not coined until the Civil War, has been an intrinsic part…

  • This first full-length biography of the first published Asian North American fiction writer portrays both the woman and her times.

  • Biracial/Bicultural Identity in the Writings of Sui Sin Far MELUS Volume 26, Number 2 (Summer 2001) pages 159-186 Vanessa Holford Diana, Professor of English Westfield State Unviversity, Westfield, Massachusetts At the turn into the twentieth century, American culture witnessed related literary and political shifts through which marginalized voices gained increased strength despite the severe racism…

  • Stand Back Ladies and Gentlemen! The Wonders of the World! Conformity and Confrontation in Winnifred Eaton’s Freak Show Setting in “The Loves of Sakura Jiro and the Three-Headed Maid” Winnifred Eaton Project Symposium 2007-03-15 through 2007-03-16 Owens Art Gallery Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada 2007-03-16 Christine Mayor Mount Allison University The freak show…

  • Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans Johns Hopkins University Press 2009 352 pages 7 halftones Hardback ISBN: 9780801886805 Jennifer M. Spear, Associate Professor of History Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Winner, 2009 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Lousiana History, The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association…

  • Unfixing Race: Class, Power, and Identity in an Interracial Family The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Volume 102, Number 3 (July, 1994) pages 349-380 Thomas E. Buckley, S.J., Professor of American Religious History Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley Santa Clara University This article is also available as a chapter in Martha Hode’s (ed.) Sex,…

  • Gene Flow from White into Negro Populations in Brazil American Journal of Human Genetics Volume 9, Number 4 (December 1957) pages 299–309 P. H. Saldanha Department of General Biology University of Sao Paulo, Brazil GLASS AND Li (1953) have introduced a statistical model that allows calculations to be made, not only of the intermixture between…