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Month: February 2010

  • Language and the Politics of Ethnicity in the Caribbean

    Language and the Politics of Ethnicity in the Caribbean Center for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean York University, Toronto, Ontario The Fourth Annual Jagan Lecture Presented at York University on 2002-03-02 George Lamming, Visiting Professor Brown University The Jagan Lectures commemorate the life and vision of the late Dr. Cheddi Jagan, Caribbean thinker,…

  • PAGE ONE — No Biological Basis For Race, Scientists Say / Distinctions prove to be skin deep

    PAGE ONE — No Biological Basis For Race, Scientists Say / Distinctions prove to be skin deep San Fransisco Gate Chronicle 1998-02-23 Charles Petit, Chronicle Science Writer This is one of a series of articles in “About Race,” a year-long public journalism project in which The Chronicle, KRON-TV, BayTV and KQED-FM are examining various aspects…

  • Interrogating Identities: Exploring Racism, Community and Belonging Among Mixed Race Youth in Canada

    Interrogating Identities: Exploring Racism, Community and Belonging Among Mixed Race Youth in Canada Centre for Culture, Identity and Education University of British Columbia 2008-04-02 Video Length: 00:27:20 Leanne Taylor York University Youth Research Symposium – Video-stream. (April 2, 2008). These video streams feature speakers from the Day-Long Youth Research Symposium and showcase the role of…

  • Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921

    Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921 University of British Columbia Press 2009-05-15 288 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780774816335 Paperback ISBN: 9780774816342 Renisa Mawani, Associate Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia Contemporary discussions of multiculturalism and pluralism remain politically charged in former settler societies. Colonial Proximities historicizes these contestations by illustrating…

  • The politics of everyday hybridity: Zadie Smith’s White Teeth

    The politics of everyday hybridity: Zadie Smith’s White Teeth Wasafiri: The Magazine Of International Contemporary Writing Volume 18, Issue 39 Summer 2003 pages 11-17 DOI: 10.1080/02690050308589837 Laura Moss, Associate Professor of English University of British Columbia Read the entire article here.

  • White Teeth: A Novel

    White Teeth: A Novel Vintage an imprint of Random House 2001-06-12 464 pages ISBN: 978-0-375-70386-7 (0-375-70386-1) Zadie Smith On New Year’s morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie–working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt–is calling…

  • Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance

    Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance University of North Carolina Press April 2004 288 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 19 illus., 2 charts, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-2868-7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5531-7 Daylanne K. English, Associate Professor of English & Chair Macalester College Challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American…

  • Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction

    Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction University of North Carolina Press December 2004 416 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 22 illus., notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-2902-8 Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5567-6 Michele Mitchell, Associate Professor of History New York University Between 1877 and 1930–years rife with tensions over citizenship, suffrage, immigration,…

  • A Reappraisal of the Constitutionality of Miscegenation Statutes

    A Reappraisal of the Constitutionality of Miscegenation Statutes Cornell Law Quarterly Volume 42, Issue 2 (Winter 1957) pages 208-222 Andrew D. Weinberger, LL.B., D. HUM, Member of the New York Bar, New York City & Visiting Professor of Law Nationzal University of Mexico Today [in 1957], 21 States of the Union by statute forbid marriages…

  • Half + Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural

    Half + Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural Pantheon an imprint of Random House 1998-06-09 288 pages ISBN: 978-0-375-70011-8 (0-375-70011-0) Edited by Claudine C. O’Hearn As we approach the twenty-first century, biracialism and biculturalism are becoming increasingly common.  Skin color and place of birth are no longer reliable signifiers of one’s identity or…