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Day: February 14, 2010

  • 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

    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]

    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

    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

    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…

  • 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…