Month: October 2009

  • Mixed Feelings: The Complex Lives of Mixed-Race Britons The Women’s Press 2001 336 pages 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 0704347067; ISBN-13: 978-0704347069 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s new book offers the sharpest and most informed insight yet on mixed-race Britain. Opening with an historical perspective, she traces up to the twenty-first century the…

  • Teaching and Learning Guide for: Ethnographic approaches to race, genetics and genealogy Sociology Compass Volume 3 Issue 5 Pages 847 – 852 2009-07-29 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2009.00231.x Katharine Tyler, Lecturer in Race and Ethnicity University of Surrey Over the last 20 years, there has been a technological advance and commercial boom in genetic technologies and projects. These…

  • Hybridity and its Discontents: Politics, Science, Culture Routledge 2000-08-24 320 pages Trim Size: 234×156 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-19402-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-19403-7 Edited by Avtar Brah, Professor in Sociology Birbek University of London Annie Coombes, Professor of Material and Visual Culture Birkbeck University of London Hybridity and its Discontents explores the history and experience of ‘hybridity’ –…

  • A Premonition of Obama: La Raza Cosmica in America New Perspectives Quarterly (NPQ) Volume 26 Issue 4 Pages 100 – 110 Published Online: 2009-10-26 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5842.2009.01119.x Ryszard Kapuscinski Ryszard Kapuscinski, who died in 2007, was one of the 20th century’s greatest literary journalists. He personally witnessed the dramatic post-World War II upheavals of decolonization and…

  • Working with multiracial clients in therapy: Bridging theory, research, and practice Professional Psychology: Research and Practice Vol 39(2) Apr 2008 pages 192-201 Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, Associate Professor California Polytechnic State University Lisa M. Edwards, Assistant Professor, Director of Child/Adolescent Community Program Marquette University Shane J. Lopez The growing multiracial population has resulted in a need…

  • A content and methodological review of articles concerning multiracial issues in six major counseling journals Journal of Counseling Psychology Vol 55(3) Jul 2008 pages 411-418 Lisa M. Edwards, Assistant Professor, Director of Child/Adolescent Community Program Marquette University Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, Associate Professor California Polytechnic State University This study describes a comprehensive content and methodological review…

  • The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis (Book Review) Journal of Southern History Vol. 67 2001 Lloyd A. Hunter Franklin College of Indiana The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis. By Cyprian Clamorgan. Edited and with an introduction by Julie Winch. (Columbia, Mo., and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 1999. Pp. xiv, 122. $27.50, ISBN 0-8262-1236-0.)…

  • In 1858, Cyprian Clamorgan wrote a brief but immensely readable book entitled “The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis.” The grandson of a white voyageur and a mulatto woman, he was himself a member of the “colored aristocracy.” In a setting where the vast majority of African Americans were slaves, and where those who were free…

  • Blind Boone: Missouri’s Ragtime Pioneer University of Missouri Press 1998 136 pages 6 x 9. Biblio. Index. 25 illus. ISBN: 0-8262-1198-4 Jack A. Batterson Often overlooked by ragtime historians, John William “Blind” Boone had a remarkably successful and influential music career that endured for almost fifty years. Blind Boone: Missouri’s Ragtime Pioneer provides the first…

  • What does it mean to be a “mixed-blood,” and how has our understanding of this term changed over the last two centuries? What processes have shaped American thinking on racial blending?  Why has the figure of the mixed-blood, thought too offensive for polite conversation in the nineteenth century, become a major representative of twentieth-century native…