Category: Media Archive

  • Outside the box: The multiracial/multiethnic student experience University of Colorado, Boulder Main Campus – University Memorial Center (UMC) 1669 Euclid Avenue Boulder, Colorado Room: 415 2011-11-08, 15:30-16:45 MST (Local Time) For the multiracial student, college is often a time of consolidating and exploring identity. Through a combination of research, personal stories, and facilitated discussion, this…

  • It is important, in any consideration of the American Negro, to understand the use of the term. The word “Negro” is, biologically, a misnomer, for the African Negroes, brought to the United States as slaves, have crossed in breeding with the dominant White population, as well as with the aboriginal American Indian types with whom…

  • Melville Jean Herskovits American Anthropologist Volume 66, Issue 1 (February 1964) pages 83-109 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1964.66.1.02a00080 Alan P. Merriam Melville Jean Herskovits (1895-1963) Melville Jean Herskovits was born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, September 10, 1895, and spent his childhood there and in Texas. In 1920 he took his Ph.B. at the University of Chicago, and later came…

  • Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix [Review: Glazier] Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries Volume 49, Number 2 (October 2011) Steven D. Glazier, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology University of Nebraska, Lincoln Spencer, Rainier. Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix. L. Rienner, 2011. 355p bibl index afp ISBN 9781588267511. Spencer’s insightful analysis and critique…

  • For Maria Campbell, a Métis (“Halfbreed”) in Canada, the brutal realities of poverty, pain, and degradation intruded early and followed her every step. Her story is a harsh one, but it is told without bitterness or self-pity.

  • Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge University of Nebraska Press 2004 357 pages ISBN: 978-0-8032-2187-1 Jerry Gershenhorn, Professor of History North Carolina Central University Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge is the first full-scale biography of the trailblazing anthropologist of African and African American cultures. Born into a world…

  • School for Tricksters: A Novel in Stories Texas A&M University Press Consortium (Southern Methodist University Press) 2011-01-11 248 pages 6×9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-87074-563-8 Chris Gavaler, Visiting Assistant Professor of English Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia This is a novel in stories depicting radical incidents of racial crossing in the early twentieth century. The alternating…

  • Crimes of Performance Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society Volume 13, Issue 1 (2011) Special Issue: Black Critiques of Capital: Radicalism, Resistance, and Visions of Social Justice pages 29-45 DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2011.551476 Uri McMillan, Assistant Professor of English University of California, Los Angeles In this article, I focus on the intersections between…

  • Standing on Both Feet: Voices of Older Mixed-Race Americans Paradigm Publishers December 2011 208 pages 6×9 ISBN: 978-1-59451-982-6 Cathy J. Tashiro, PhD, RN, Associate Professor of Nursing University of Washington, Tacoma In the first book to focus on the experiences of older American of mixed race identity, Cathy Tashiro explores questions of identity and the…

  • Guess who’s coming to brunch? Dating and the hybrid subject Race-Talk 2011-10-26 Adebe D. A., Race-Talk Cultural Editor I don’t have enough hands to count how many times people have asked me if my parents are “still together” and upon hearing that yes, they have been together for over 25 years, expressed sincere surprise at…