Month: June 2010

  • American demands, African treasures, Mixed possibilities The African Diaspora Archaeology Network University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign December 2006 Newsletter ISSN: 1933-8651 16 pages Daniel R. McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom In the 1990s, many Americans sought to cast themselves as heroic defenders of the liberal arts by condemning Afrocentricity. This…

  • ‘Celtic Samurai’ Tells Story of Hapa Family Life Hokubei.com – North America’s Japanese Newsource 2010-06-18 “Celtic Samurai,” a storytelling program by Dr. Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu on the family life of a Japanese mother and American-born Irish father, will be presented by the Japanese American National Library and the Nichi Bei Weekly on Saturday, June 19, [2010]…

  • Developing a positive racial identity–challenges for psychotherapists working with black and mixed race adopted adults The Psychotherapist Spring 2010 pages 10-12 Esther Ina-Egbe, Psychotherapist, Counsellor and Trainer In this article, Esther Ina-Egbe argues that psychotherapists need to explore the repetitions and lack of mirroring that may be present in the therapeutic relationship There is a…

  • Of Rogues and Geldings The American Historical Review AHR Forum: Amalgamation and the Historical Distinctiveness of the United States Volume 108, Number 5 (December 2003) Barbara J. Fields, Professor of History Columbia University David Hollinger has performed a valuable service by insisting on the historical uniqueness of the Afro-American experience, rejecting the false history, spurious…

  • Tiger Woods: Black, white, other The Guardian 2010-05-29 Gary Younge, Feature Writer and Columnist Before he was engulfed in a sex scandal Tiger Woods was a poster boy for a multiracial America. Gary Younge on the real legacy of golf’s fallen hero On 13 April 1997 Tiger Woods putted his way to golfing history in…

  • 2010 Hurst Prize Winner: Peggy Pascoe, What Comes Naturally Legal History Blog 2010-06-03 Mary L. Dudziak, Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History and Political Science University of Southern California Peggy Pascoe, University of Oregon, Department of History, has won the Willard Hurst Prize for 2010 from the Law and Society…

  • Women-Loving Women: Queering Black Urban Space during the Harlem Renaissance Women’s Studies 197: Senior Seminar 2010-06-07 Professor Lilith Mahmud Samantha Tenorio The experience of black “women-loving-women” during the Harlem Renaissance is directly influenced by what Kimberlé Crenshaw terms intersectional identity, or their positioning in the social hierarchies of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation that…

  • Multiculturalism and Morphing in “I’m Not There” (Haynes, 2007) Wide Screen Volume 2, Number 1, June 2010 15 pages ISSN: 1757-3920 Published by Subaltern Media Zélie Asava ‘Passing’ narratives question fixed social categorisations and prove the possibility of self-determination, which is why they are such a popular literary and cinematic trope. This article explores ‘passing’…

  • The Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the Color Line in Twenty-First Century America Russell Sage Foundation May 2010 240 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-87154-041-6 Jennifer Lee, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Frank D. Bean, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology and Economics; Director of the Center for Research on Immigration, Population, and Public Policy University of…

  • The Social Experience of Mixed Race [Book Review] Jill Olumide. Raiding the Gene Pool: The Social Construction of Mixed Race. London: Pluto Press, 2002. xii + 212 pp., ISBN 978-0-7453-1764-9; ISBN 978-0-7453-1765-6. H-Net Online December 2002 Mohamed Adhikari, Lecturer of Historical Studies University of Cape Town, South Africa The author, a medical sociologist at the…