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  • Katanga’s forgotten people

    Katanga’s forgotten people FRANCE 24 2010-03-16 Marlène Rabaud Arnaud Zajtman Like many mixed-race children in Congo, they were born of a Japanese father who came to work in the mines of Katanga in south-east of the country. Today, they accuse their fathers of wanting to kill them so as not to leave behind any traces when…

  • Identity as Skin Color: Performing a “White” Identity in Caucasia

    Identity as Skin Color: Performing a “White” Identity in Caucasia Scholars: Journal of Undergraduate Research Issue 16 – Winter 2011 McKendree University Online Journal of Undergraduate Research Lebanon, Illinois Anastasia Bierman ‘My body would fill in the blanks, tell me who I should become, and I would let it speak for me,’ says Birdie Lee,…

  • My President

    My President Abernathy: for gentlemen of culture 2015-02-09 Brian Kamanzi Cape Town, South Africa Barack Hussein Obama. Let me start this off by an admission. The man is my hero. But, let me assure you that this has little to do with who he actually is. This isn’t about his foreign policy or about his…

  • Part Asian-American, All Jewish?

    Part Asian-American, All Jewish? Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-02-10 Rachel Gross, Editor Moment Magazine I was five years old when my mother threatened to give me away to journalist Connie Chung. Chung and her husband, Maury Povich, had just announced their intention to adopt a half-Chinese, half-Jewish child.…

  • Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European Children in Nineteenth-century Western Australia

    Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European Children in Nineteenth-century Western Australia University of Western Australia Publishing 2002-08-31 246 pages 207 x 139 mm ISBN: 978-1876268732 Penelope Hetherington Settlers, Servants and Slaves documents the exploitation of both Aboriginal and European children by the settler elite of nineteenth-century Western Australia. In a struggling colony desperately short…

  • Connecting the Dots in Suicide Prevention

    Connecting the Dots in Suicide Prevention Vassar Alumnae/i Quarterly Poughkeepsie, New York Spring/Summer 2014 Eric Marcus ’80 Rebecca Hyde ’92 According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), suicide is the 10th leading cause of death for Americans. Christine Yu Moutier ’90 wants to do something about that. Last fall, following two decades of…

  • A History of Loss

    A History of Loss The Chronicle Review The Chronicle of Higher Education 2015-02-09 Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University Alexander L. Manly could have been the first victim of the bloody race riot that exploded in Wilmington, N.C., in early November 1898. Manly, publisher of the Daily Record, North Carolina’s only African-American newspaper,…

  • Association for Critical Race Art History: Building a Multiracial American Past

    Association for Critical Race Art History: Building a Multiracial American Past CAA 103rd Annual Conference College Art Association New York, New York 2015-02-11 through 2015-02-14 Session Location/Time: New York Hilton Midtown 2nd Floor, Sutton Parlor Center 1335 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10019 2015-02-11, 12:30-14:00 EST (Local Time) Charles Paxson, Learning is…

  • Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico

    Ideas of blackness, whiteness, and racial mixture in a Puerto Rican barrio

  • The mixed-race girl’s guide to the art of passing: racial simulations in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia and Nella Larsen’s Quicksand

    The mixed-race girl’s guide to the art of passing: racial simulations in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia and Nella Larsen’s Quicksand Florida Atlantic University May 2014 65 pages Gyasi S. Byng A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of…