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Month: October 2009

  • From exclusion and alienation to a ‘multi-racial community’: The image of the métis in New Caledonian literature

    From exclusion and alienation to a ‘multi-racial community’: The image of the métis in New Caledonian literature International Journal of Francophone Studies ISSN: 13682679 Volume 8 Issue 3 December 2005 DOI: 10.1386/ijfs.8.3.305/1 Peter Brown  In her 2005 New Year’s greetings, Marie-Noëlle Thémereau, the President of the New Caledonian government, expressed her confidence in the future…

  • ‘Our sea of islands’: migration and métissage in contemporary Polynesian writing

    ‘Our sea of islands’: migration and métissage in contemporary Polynesian writing International Journal of Francophone Studies Volume 11, Issue 4 (December 2008) pages 503-522 DOI: 10.1386/ijfs.11.4.503_1 Michelle Keown, Senior Lecturer of English Literature University of Edinburgh This article explores metaphors of oceanic migration in contemporary Polynesian writing, investigating the notion of a regional ‘Oceanic’ identity…

  • Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption

    Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption Vintage an imprint of Random House, Inc. Academic Resources 2003 688 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-375-70264-8 (0-375-70264-4) Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law Harvard Law School From the author of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word and Race, Crime, and the Law—a tour de force…

  • Crossing Lines: Race and Mixed Race Across the Geohistorical Divide

    Crossing Lines: Race and Mixed Race Across the Geohistorical Divide Rowman & Littlefield Paper: 0-9700-3841-0 / 978-0-9700-3841-8 June 2005 190 pages Edited by Marc Coronado DeAnza College Rudy P. Guevarra University of California, Santa Barbara Jeffrey A. S. Moniz, Associate Professor and Director University of Hawai’i Laura Furlan Szanto University of California, Santa Barbara Crossing…

  • The Woman of Colour

    The Woman of Colour Broadview Press 2007-01-01 268 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781551111766 / 1551111764 Written by: Anonymous Edited by: Lyndon J. Dominique, Assistant Professor of English Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania The Woman of Colour is a unique literary account of a black heiress’ life immediately after the abolition of the British slave trade. Olivia Fairfield,…

  • Mixed Race Hollywood

    Since the early days of Hollywood film, portrayals of interracial romance and of individuals of mixed racial and ethnic heritage have served to highlight and challenge fault lines within Hollywood and the nation’s racial categories and borders.

  • Mixed-Race Identities

    Mixed-Race Identities American Psychology Association Item #: 4310742 ISBN: 1-59147-365-9 ISBN 13: 978-1-59147-365-7 Running Time: Over 100 minutes Format: DVD With Maria P. P. Root, PhD Hosted by John Carlson, PsyD, EdD Part of the Multicultural Counseling APA Psychotherapy Video Series About the Video In Mixed-Race Identities, Dr. Maria P. P. Root demonstrates her approach…

  • Mixed-Race Identity Politics in Nella Larsen and Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna)

    Mixed-Race Identity Politics in Nella Larsen and Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna) Ohio University English (Arts and Sciences) Department November 2001 217 pages Advisor: David Dean McWilliams Sachi Nakachi A dissertation presented to the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences of Ohio University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of…

  • Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line

    “Making Multiracials” tells the story of the social movement that emerged around mixed race identity in the 1990s. Organizations for interracial families and mixed race people—groups once loosely organized and only partially aware of each other—proliferated.

  • Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America

    Renee Romano explains how and why such marriages have gained acceptance, and what this tells us about race relations in contemporary America.