Category: Media Archive

  • Rejoining the Parts: A Conversation with Jane Lazarre About Race, Fiction, American History and Her New Novel, Inheritance Tenured Radical The Chronicle of Higher Education 2011-11-15 Claire Potter, Professor of History and American Studies Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Jane Lazarre is a writer of fiction, memoir and poetry who has published many books, beginning with…

  • Inheritance, A Novel Hamilton Stone Editions 2011-11-15 308 pages 9 x 6 x 1 inches ISBN: 978-0-9801786-8-5 Jane Lazarre Jane Lazarre’s compelling novel explores America’s mixed racial history through the lives of four families whose fates are intertwined across several generations from slavery to the present. Unflinching in its description of the horrors of slavery…

  • Old Whine, New Vassals: Are Diaspora and Hybridity Postmodern Inventions? Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, Visiting Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Duke University Chapter in: New Ethnicities, Old Racisms? (pages 181-204) Zed Books May 1999 253 pages ISBN-10: 185649652X; ISBN-13: 978-1856496520 Edited by: Phil Cohen, Emeritus Professor University of East London The recent bag…

  • The myth of the melting pot Biodemography and Social Biology Volume 1, Issue 4 (1954) pages 248-251 DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1954.9987204 David C. Rife Institute of Genetics The Ohio State University Elton F. Paddock Institute of Genetics The Ohio State University Myths are fictional legends, but more often than not they carry elements of truth. Popular beliefs…

  • The authors argue that the application of critical methods to fragments in successive discursive formations, including oral traditions, double meanings, epithets, fictions, and fantasies, reveal that Americans have always almost known of their biracial heritage. This re-examination of archival evidence in conjunction with critiques of novels, neologisms, and epithets enables the authors to reinterpret narratives…

  • ‘The rivers of Zimbabwe will run red with blood’: Enoch Powell and the Post-Imperial Nostalgia of the Monday Club Journal of Southern African Studies Volume 37, Issue 4 (December 2011) pages 731-745 DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2011.613691 Daniel McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom In his influential account of post-colonial melancholia, Paul Gilroy…

  • Lectures delivered by John Powell under the auspices of the lectureship in Music The Rice Institute Pamphlet Volume 10, Number 3 (July 1923) pages 107-163 Lectures delivered by John Powell Palace Theatre of Houston 1923-04-05 through 1923-04-06 John Powell Table of Contents I. Music and the Individual (20 pages) II. Music and the Nation (38…

  • Race as a social question in Brazil The Rice Institute Pamphlet Volume 27, Number 4 (October 1940) pages 218-241 Carlos M. Delgado de Carvalho (1884-1990) I. ETHNIC COMPOSITION OF THE BRAZILIAN POPULATION At first sight, it seems that race could be considered as the capital element of the biological aspect of society. Race is a…

  • Narratives of astonishment: Miscegenation in New World literature Rice University 1994 235 pages John Wesley Buass A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Through readings of a variety of literary and historical narratives from throughout the Americas dating from the 16th century to the present, I show…

  • One Big Hapa Family KCTS 9 Television Real NW Seattle, Washington Monday, 2011-11-14, 22:00 PST After a family reunion, Japanese-Canadian filmmaker, Jeff Chiba Stearns embarks on a journey of self-discovery to find out why everyone in his Japanese-Canadian family married interracially after his grandparents’ generation. Using a mix of live action and animation, “One Big…