Month: January 2010

  • Re-SEAing SouthEast Asian American Studies. Memories & Visions: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. San Francisco State University 2011-03-10 through 2011-03-11 The third tri-annual interdisciplinary Southeast Asians in the Diaspora conference will take place at San Francisco State University. The San Francisco Bay Area is home to sizable populations of Burmese, Cambodian, Filipino, Hmong, Indonesian, Lao, Malaysian,…

  • The mulatta emerged as a dominant fictional character and as a frequent subject for painters, photographers, and filmmakers not simply because she was as Hazel Carby deems her, “a narrative device of mediation”.  Far from resolving issues of race, class, and gender, the ambivalence of the mulatta figure fascinated writers and readers, artists and audiences.  The…

  • “Obama’s People”: A New Identity for Biracials and Mixed Heritage Xlibris Press 2009 102 Pages ISBN: 1-4363-9510-0 (Trade Paperback 6×9 ) ISBN13: 978-1-4363-9510-6 (Trade Paperback 6×9 ) ISBN: 1-4363-9511-9 (Trade Hardback 6×9 ) ISBN13: 978-1-4363-9511-3 (Trade Hardback 6×9 ) Phillip MacFarland Since President Barack Obama is from a biracial heritage and is now the leader…

  • American Identities: California Short Stories of Multiple Ancestries Xlibris Press 2008 263 Pages ISBN: 1-4363-7705-6 (Trade Paperback 6×9) ISBN13: 978-1-4363-7705-8 (Trade Paperback 6×9) Eliud Martínez, Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing and Comparative Literature University of California, Riverside In many parts of the country, especially in California, when one passes by a school or strolls across…

  • Mixed Blood Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South University of Georgia Press 2005-03-28 60 pages Illustrated, Trim size: 5.5 x 8.25 ISBN: 978-0-8203-2731-0 Theda Perdue, Atlanta Distinguished Term Professor of Southern Culture University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill On the southern frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European men—including traders, soldiers, and…

  • IndiVisible – African-Native American Lives in the Americas National Museum of the American Indian 4th Street and Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC 2009-11-09 through 2010-05-31 Comanche family, early 1900s Here is a family from the Comanche Nation located in southwestern Oklahoma. The elder man in Comanche traditional clothing is Ta-Ten-e-quer. His wife, Ta-Tat-ty, also wears…

  • Critical Whiteness Studies Symposium: Call for Papers Critical Whiteness Studies Symposium University of Iowa 2010-09-23 through 2010-09-24 Abstract Deadline: 2010-03-12 Keynote Speakers: David Roediger, Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Karyn McKinney, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Education, Human Development, & Social Sciences Penn State University, Altoona Abstract deadline…

  • 2010 African American Studies Symposium University of Texas at San Antonio 2010-04-16 The 3rd annual African American Studies Symposium is a one-day conference Friday, April 16, 2010, at the University of Texas at San Antonio. This year, the theme is ‘Politics and Black Popular Culture.’ We especially encourage papers on language, music, hair, art, film,…

  • The idea that human races exist is a socially constructed myth that has no grounding in science. Regardless of skin, hair, or eye color, stature or physiognomy, we are all of one species. Nonetheless, scientists, social scientists, and pseudo-scientists have, for three centuries, tried vainly to prove that distinctive and separate “races” of humanity exist.

  • Q&A With Researchers: Associate Professor Manying Ip asia:nz online Asia New Zealand Foundation Associate Professor Manying Ip Asia:NZ Trustee; Associate Professor of Chinese, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland Manying Ip came to New Zealand in 1974 from Hong Kong where her family lived for five generations. With her strong classical Chinese education at…