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Month: November 2009

  • Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century

    Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century Cornell University Press 2002 264 pages 6 x 9, 12 color illustrations, 65 halftones ISBN: 978-0-8014-4085-4 David Bindman, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art University College London Ape to Apollo is the first book to follow the development in the eighteenth…

  • Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery

    Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery Cornell University Press 2005 254 pages, 6 x 9 ISBN: 978-0-8014-4384-8  Carolyn Vellenga Berman Department of Humanities The New School, New York The character of the Creole woman—the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier—is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French,…

  • Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina

    Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina Cornell University Press 2001 288 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 2 maps, 13 halftones, 1 line drawing Paper ISBN: 978-0-8014-8679-1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8014-3822-6 Kirsten Fischer, Associate Professor of History University of Minnesota Over the course of the eighteenth century, race came to seem as…

  • Chameleon’s Fate: Transnational Mixed-Race Vietnamese Identities

    Chameleon’s Fate: Transnational Mixed-Race Vietnamese Identities Amerasia Journal University of Califonia, Los Angeles Asian American Studies Center Press ISSN: 0044-7471 2005 Issue Volume 31, Number 2 Pages 51-62 Fiona I. B. Ngô, Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies & Gender and Women’s Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The chameleon’s fate is an apt metaphor for the lives of…

  • Slaves Imported from Africa…

    The slaves imported from Africa by no means represented “pure Negro races.”  Of the original tribal stocks, many had admixture of Caucasoid genes from crosses with Mediterranean peoples.   During the slave trade more white genes were added.  The Portuguese who settled on the Guinea Coast had relations with the natives.  The slave traders themselves were…

  • Is Parental Love Colorblind? Allocation of Resources within Mixed-Race Families (Preliminary Version)

    Is Parental Love Colorblind? Allocation of Resources within Mixed-Race Families (Preliminary Version) Prepared for the Labor and Population Workshop, Department of Economics, Yale University May, 2007 53 pages Marcos A. Rangel, Assistant Professor Harris School of Public Policy Studies University of Chicago Recent studies have shown that differences in wage-determinant skills between blacks and whites…

  • Conversation with Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets

    Conversation with Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition Yale University 1990-02-02 Frederick J. Streets, University Chaplain and Senior Pastor Church of Christ, Yale University A conversation with Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets, University Chaplain and Senior Pastor of the Church of Christ, Yale University.…

  • An Unexpected Blackness

    An Unexpected Blackness Transition: An International Review Feb 2009 No. 100 Pages 112-132 Naomi Pabst, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Studies Yale University What does it mean to be of African descent while residing in Canada, where the hypodescent rule does not hold sway?  Naomi Pabst reflects upon the complexity of life…

  • Negotiating Ethnic Boundaries: Multiethnic Mexican Americans and Ethnic Identity in the United States

    Negotiating Ethnic Boundaries: Multiethnic Mexican Americans and Ethnic Identity in the United States Ethnicities Volume 4, Number  1 (March 2004) pages 75-97 DOI: 10.1177/1468796804040329 Tomás R. Jiménez, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University This article examines the ethnic identity of the offspring of Mexican/white (non-Hispanic) intermarriages, or multiethnic Mexican Americans, using 20 in-depth interviews with…

  • A Feminist Critique of Research on Interracial Family Identity: Implications for Family Health

    A Feminist Critique of Research on Interracial Family Identity: Implications for Family Health Journal of Family Nursing 2004 Vol. 10, No. 3 pp. 302-322 DOI: 10.1177/1074840704267189 Marcia M. Byrd, Assistant Professor of Nursing College of St. Catherine Ann W. Garwick, Associate Dean for Research, Professor and Director of Center for Child and Family Health Promotion…