Month: January 2010

  • Drawing Battle Lines Sarah Lawrence College Magazine Spring 2003: Who Are You Catherine McKinley[-Davis] was one of only a few thousand African-American and biracial children adopted by white couples in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Throughout her childhood and adolescence, her consciousness grew as she did. Her very identity—composed both of the whiteness and…

  • Mestizaje Upside-Down: Aesthetic Politics in Modern Bolivia University of Pittsburgh Press May 2004 240 pages 6 x 9 ISBN: 9780822942276 Javier C. Sanjinés, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies University of Michigan Mestizaje refers to the process of cultural, ethnic, and racial mixture that is part of cultural identity in Latin America.…

  • A Letter to My Father: Growing up Filipina and American University of Oklahoma Press 2008 184 pages 5.5″ x 8.5″ x 0″ 8 b&w illustrations, 2 maps Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8061-3909-8 Helen Madamba Mossman Going from the jungles of the wartime Philippines to the schoolyards of northwestern Oklahoma is no easy transition. For one twelve-year-old girl,…

  • Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities (Book Review) Sites: a journal of social anthropology and cultural studies University of Otago, New Zealand Volume 5, Number 2 (2008) pages 180-182 Kate Bagnall Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities, Manying Ip, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2008, 255pp. ISBN 978-1-86940-399-7 Manying Ip makes it clear from the outset that Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities…

  • Santiago de Guatemala, 1541-1773: City, Caste, and the Colonial Experience University of Oklahoma Press 1997 368 pages 9.09″ x 6.02″ x 0.83″ 14 illus, 6 maps, 1 figure Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8061-2911-2; ISBN(10): 0-8061-2911-5 Christopher H. Lutz Santiago de Guatemala was the colonial capital and most important urban center of Spanish Central America from its establishment…

  • Black, White, Other: Racial categories are cultural constructs masquerading as biology Natural History Magazine December 1994 pp. 32–35 Jonathan Marks, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of North Carolina, Charlotte While reading the Sunday edition of the New York Times one morning last February, my attention was drawn by an editorial inconsistency. The article I was…

  • Family Identity: Black-White Interracial Family Health Experience Journal of Family Nursing (2006) Vol. 12, No. 1 Pages 22-37 DOI: 10.1177/1074840705285213 Marcia Marie Byrd, PhD, RN College of St. Catherine Ann Williams Garwick, PhD, RN, LP, LMFT, FAAN University of Minnesota The purpose of this interpretive descriptive study was to describe how eight Black-White couples with…

  • Tragic Mulatto Girl Wonder: The paradoxical life of Philippa Duke Schuyler QBR The Black Book Review February/March 1996 Lise Funderburg Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler by Kathryn Talalay Oxford University Press (317 pp.) Hardcover ISBN 0-19-509608-8 As a child prodigy, pianist and composer, Philippa Duke Schuyler incited both awe and…

  • The first authorized biography of Philippa Schuyler, “Composition in Black and White” draws on previously unpublished letters and diaries to reveal an extraordinary and complex personality.