Category: Religion

  • Reacting to the rising numbers of mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian-Black African) people in its New Spain colony, the eighteenth-century Bourbon government of Spain attempted to categorize and control its colonial subjects through increasing social regulation of their bodies and the spaces they inhabited.

  • New Christians/’New Whites’: Sephardic Jews, Free People of Color, and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue, 1760-1789 Chapter (pages 314-332) in: The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800 Berghahn Books 2001 592 pages Pb ISBN 978-1-57181-430-2; Hb ISBN 978-1-57181-153-0 Edited by: Paolo Bernardini and Norman Fiering Chapter Author: John D. Garrigus, Associate Professor…

  • Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World Texas A&M University Press 2010-07-12 168 pages 6 x 9, Illus. Cloth ISBN: 978-1-60344-192-6 Edited by: John D. Garrigus, Associate Professor of History University of Texas, Austin Christopher Morris, Associate Professor of History University of Texas, Austin With the recent election of the nation’s first…

  • History and the (Un)making of Identifications in Literary Representations of Anglo-Indians and Goan Catholics University of British Columbia September 2000 465 pages Marian Josephine Gracias A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Department of English) This dissertation examines selected literature…

  • Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape, 3rd Edition Cengage Learning 2012 480 pages ISBN-10: 1111519536; ISBN-13: 9781111519537 Edited by Elizabeth Higginbotham, Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Criminology University of Delaware Margaret L. Andersen, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Sociology University of Delaware This engaging reader is organized in four…

  • New Book Explores Georgetown Inside and Out Georgetown Alumni Online Georgetown University 2010-11-2010 Historian R. Emmett Curran discusses his recently published book, a three-volume history of Georgetown that uncovers little known facts about the university. True or false? 1. In Georgetown’s first decade of existence, nearly 20 percent of its students came from outside the…

  • The Politics of Mothering in a “Mixed” Family: An Autoethnographic Exploration Identities Volume 12, Issue 4, 2005 pages 479-503 DOI: 10.1080/10702890500332642 Nora Lester Murad, Founder and Executive Director Dalia Association Interweaving excerpts from her personal journal with research and literature about mixed race, interfaith, and bicultural experience, Nora Lester Murad uses autoethnographic methods to explore…

  • “Are You Black or Are You Jewish?”: The New Identity Challenge Lilith Magazine Fall 1996 pages 21-29 Sarah Blustain Two or three times a week, on the streets of San Francisco, complete strangers walk up to Lisa Feldstein and I ask, “What are you?” She’s not Indian, South American, Puerto Rican or—her favorite suggestion—French. The…

  • 20 years after riots, Crown Heights is now a mixed racial haven New York Daily News 2011-08-14 Simone Weichselbaum, Staff Writer Crown Heights has become a mixed race mecca. The Brooklyn neighborhood infamous for the 1991 riot between blacks and Jews has the second-most residents who identify as being both black and white, the latest…

  • Prayer, and Bug Juice, at a Summer Camp for Jews of Color The New York Times 2011-08-12 Samuel G. Freedman, Professor of Journalism Columbia University PETALUMA, Calif. — On Sabbath morning, as fog still hung over the valley, the campers walked past the Torrey pines and blackberry bushes toward the garden. There, several rows of…