Month: February 2010

  • Natasha Trethewey Reads at ECU The Common Reader Newsletter of the ECU Department of English Eastern Carolina University Volume 26, Number 6: May 2008 Lisa DeVries On April 2, Natasha Trethewey visited East Carolina University for a public reading and book signing organized by fellow poet and friend John Hoppenthaler.  She won the Pulitizer Prize…

  • In the late 1700s the roots of cowboy culture arose out of the Carolinas. These men and women were not the typical white ranchers that would be depicted in later stories and films. Instead they were a group of “tri-racial isolates.”

  • An exploration of a great American writer’s abiding concern with the color line

  • Representing gods in a mixed-race society: Images, rituals and politics in María Lionza’s cult (Venezuela) University of St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CAS) Social Anthropology Seminar Room (Room 50, St Salvator’s Building) 2010-03-17, 15:00Z to 17:00Z Roger Canals University of Barcelona Roger Canals, University of Barcelona, will…

  • Written Out of History Pomona College Magazine Pomona College, Claremont, California Fall 2002 Volume 39, Number 1 Michael Balchunas Spurred by a glimpse of family history, Professor Sid Lemelle is bringing to light a little-known aspect of the African Diaspora. When the new people moved in, all eyes were upon them. There were comments about…

  • Investigations: Problem behavior University of Chicago Magazine October 2006 Volume 99, Issue 1 Lydialyle Gibson For American children, says Yoonsun Choi, assistant professor at the School of Social Service Administration, early adolescence isn’t getting any simpler. Besides the awkwardness and looming angst, there’s this: more and more youth now find themselves navigating the uncertain territory…

  • Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico Stanford University Press 2008 424 pages 13 illustrations, 2 maps. ISBN-10: 0804756481; ISBN-13: 9780804756488 María Elena Martínez (1966-2014), Associate Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity University of Southern California María Elena Martínez’s Genealogical Fictions is the first in-depth study of the relationship…

  • Ethnic Identity among Monoracial and Multiracial Early Adolescents The Journal of Early Adolescence Vol. 20, No. 4 (2000) pages 365-387 DOI: 10.1177/0272431600020004001 Michael S. Spencer, Associate Dean for Educational Programs and Associate Professor of Social Work University of Michigan Larry D. Icard, Professor of Social Work Temple University Tracy W. Harachi, Associate Professor of Social…

  • Social Work Response to the Needs of Biracial Americans Surjit Singh Dhooper, Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Kentucky Journal of Ethnic And Cultural Diversity in Social Work Volume 12, Issue 4 (April 2004) pages 19 – 47 DOI: 10.1300/J051v12n04_02 The number of interracial marriages is rising. The offspring of these marriages are a special…

  • Nikkei Heritage: Intermarriages and Hapas: An Overview – Parts 1 and 2 Discover Nikkei (Japanese Migrans and Their Descendants) Republished from Nikkei Heritage (The quarterly journal of the National Japanese American Historical Society) 2007-05-11 George Kitahara Kich, Senior Trial Consultant Bonora D’Andrea Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain, Lecturer in Sociology National University of Ireland, Maynooth Larry Hajime…