Month: February 2010

  • The Impossibility of Return: Black Women’s Migrations to Africa Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 27, Number 2, 2006 pages 54-86 E-ISSN: 1536-0334 Print ISSN: 0160-9009 DOI: 10.1353/fro.2007.0009 Piper Kendrix-Williams, Professor of African-American Studies The College of New Jersey I was on an international flight, traveling from New York to Paris, when an older…

  • Biography of famous black abolitionist and voting rights advocate, Robert Purvis.

  • Two researchers reflect on navigating multiracial identities in the research situation International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education Volume 23, Issue 3 (June 2010) pages 259 – 281 DOI: 10.1080/09518390903196609 Erica Mohan University of British Columbia Terah T. Venzant Chambers, Professor of Education and Human Development Texas A&M University   Despite the increasing interest in…

  • Racial Identity in Balance The Chronicle of Higher Education 2004-01-07 Naomi J. Miller, Professor of English and the Study of Women and Gender; Director of Institutional Diversity and Assistant to the President Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts I consider myself multiracial. Technically, I am half Japanese, a quarter Czech, and a quarter English-Dutch. By definition, then,…

  • Emerging whole from Native-Canadian relations: mixed ancestry narratives: a thesis University of British Columbia 1999-04-25 Dawn Marsden Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in the Department of Educational Stuides. After hundreds of years of contact, the relationships between the people of Native Nations and the Canadian Nation…

  • Theatrical Medicine: Aboriginal performance, ritual and commemoration The Medicine Project 2008-03-25 Michelle La Flamme Dr. Michelle La Flamme is an Afro-NDN performer, activist and educator who completed a Ph.D. at UBC [University of British Columbia] in English literature (May 2006). In her other life, she is an avid performer and has worked in film and…

  • The erasure of the Afro element of mestizaje in modern Mexico: the coding of visibly black mestizos according to a white aesthetic in and through the discourse on nation during the cultural phase of the Mexican Revolution, 1920-1968 University of British Columbia September 2001 166 pages Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, Associate Professor of Spanish North…

  • Mixed Messages [Theatrical Play] Written by Michelle La Flamme University of British Columbia with help from Minelle Mahtani, Associate Professor of Geography and Planning University of Toronto Burcu Ozdemir Mixed Messages is a satirical look at the exclusive rules for membership in academic spaces and a jab at racial identity politics in the “mixed race”…

  • Living, writing and staging racial hybridity University of British Columbia January 2006 380 pages 37 photographs/illustrations Lisa Michelle La Flamme A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Contemporary Canadian literature and drama that features racial hybridity represents the racially hybrid…

  • Race: Social Fact, Biological Fiction Focus on Adoption Volume 17, Number 3 June/July 2009 pages 16-17 Andrew Martindale, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of British Columbia Andrew Martindale, an adoptive parent, and assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, explains that the concept of race is man-made and, though…