Month: July 2010

  • Since the Middle Ages, Africans have lived in Germany as slaves and scholars, guest workers and refugees.

  • We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity Harvard University Press 2005 336 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780674025714 Tommie Shelby, Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy Harvard University 2005 New York Magazine Best Academic Book African American history resounds with calls for black unity. From abolitionist…

  • DNA tests probe the genomic ancestry of Brazilians Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research Volume 42, Number 10 (October 2009) pages 870-876 DOI: 10.1590/S0100-879X2009005000026 S .D. J. Pena GENE, Núcleo de Genética Médica, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil L. Bastos-Rodrigues Departamento…

  • Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity Duke University Press 2008 264 pages 5 photographs, 2 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4058-4 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4058-4 J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies Wesleyan University In the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act (HHCA) of 1921, the U.S. Congress defined “native Hawaiians” as those…

  • Blackness, Hypodescent, and Essentialism: Commentary on McPherson and Shelby’s “Blackness and Blood” Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy Volume 1, Number 1, May 2005 Gregory Velazco y Trianosky, Professor of Philosopy California State University, Northridge In their fascinating and thoughtful paper, McPherson and Shelby seek to defend everyday African American understandings of their own identity…

  • Reading between the (Blood) Lines Southern California Law Review Volume 83, Number 3 (2010) pages 473-494 Rose Cuison Villazor, Professor of Law Hofstra University School of Law Legal scholars and historians have depicted the rule of hypodescent—that “one drop” of African blood categorized one as Black—as one of the powerful ways that law and society…