Month: December 2009

  • Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative Indiana University Press 2007-12-04 272 pages 30 b&w photos, 6.125 x 9.25 ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34944-6 ISBN: 0-253-34944-3 Michael A. Chaney, Associate Professor of English Dartmouth College Analyzing the impact of black abolitionist iconography on early black literature and the formation of black identity, Fugitive Vision examines…

  • Assimilation and Racialism in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Colonial Policy The American Historical Review 2005 Volume 110, Number 2 Saliha Belmessous, Research Fellow of History University of Syndey Although the idea of race is increasingly being historicized, its emergence in the context of French colonization remains shadowy. This is despite the fact that colonization was…

  • Bi-racial U.S.A. vs. Multi-racial Brazil: Is the Contrast Still Valid? Journal of Latin American Studies Volume 25, Issue 2 (May 1993) pages 373-386 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X00004703 Thomas E. Skidmore, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of History Emeritus Brown University In the last two decades the comparative analysis of race relations in the U.S.A. and Brazil has…

  • Mestizo Modernism Rutgers University Press 2003 280 pages 21 b&w illus. Paper ISBN 0-8135-3217-5 Cloth ISBN 0-8135-3216-7 Tace Hedrick, Associate Professor and Women’s Studies University of Florida, Gainesville We use the term “modernism” almost exclusively to characterize the work of European and American writers and artists who struggled to portray a new kind of fractured…

  • With more than 50,000 enrolled members, North Carolina’s Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malinda Maynor Lowery, a Lumbee herself, describes how, between Reconstruction and the 1950s, the Lumbee crafted and maintained a distinct identity in an era defined by racial segregation in the South and paternalistic policies…

  • Hybridity, So What? The Anti-Hybridity Backlash and the Riddles of Recognition Theory, Culture & Society Volume 18, Numbers 2-3 (June 2001) pages 219-245 DOI: 10.1177/026327640101800211 Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Take just about any exercise in social mapping and it is the hybrids, those that…

  • Sugar & Slate Planet Books January 2002 192 pages ISBN-10: 0954088107 ISBN-13: 978-0954088101 8.1 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches Charlotte Williams, Professor of Social Work Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year, 2003 A mixed-race young woman, the daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and black father…

  • The Attitudes Toward Multiracial Children Scale Journal of Black Psychology 2001 Vol. 27, No. 1 pages 86-99 DOI: 10.1177/0095798401027001005 Charmain F. Jackman University of Southern Mississippi William G. Wagner, Professor University of Southern Mississippi J. T. Johnson University of Southern Mississippi The Attitudes Toward Multiracial Children Scale (AMCS) was developed to measure adults’ attitudes concerning…

  • Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Book Review) Pychiatric Services May 2003 Volume 54 Page 751 Published by The American Psychiatric Association Maureen Slade, R.N., M.S., Director of Psychiatry Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago Brendan Slade-Smith Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America by Kerry Ann Rockquemore and David L. Brunsma; Thousand Oaks,…

  • African Mexicans and the Discourse on Modern Nation University Press of America June 2004 136 pages Paper ISBN: 0-7618-2858-3 / 978-0-7618-2858-7 Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, Asssociate Professor of Spanish North Carolina Central University In African Mexicans and the Discourse on Modern Nation, author Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas explores how the Africaness of Mexican mestizaje was erased…