Month: August 2010

  • Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico University of Oklahoma Press December 2010 400 pages 30 B&W Illus., 2 Maps 6.125″ x 9.25″ Hardcover ISBN: 9780806140537 Paperback ISBN: 9780806168920 Shirley Boteler Mock, Research Fellow Mesoamerican Archaeological Research Laboratory, University of Texas, Austin Explores a unique and eclectic culture rooted in African…

  • Cinderella Story: A Scholarly Sketchbook about Race, Identity, Barack Obama, the Human Spirit, and Other Stuff that Matter AltaMira Press February 2010 228 pages Cloth ISBN: 0-7591-1176-6 / 978-0-7591-1176-9   James Haywood Rolling, Jr., Associate Professor of Art Education Syracuse University Cinderella Story is an experimental autoethnography that explores critical racial issues in America through the…

  • Europe’s Indians: Producing Racial Difference, 1500–1900 Duke University Press 2010 296 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4745-3 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4764-4 Vanita Seth, Associate Professor of Politics University of California, Santa Cruz Europe’s Indians forces a rethinking of key assumptions regarding difference—particularly racial difference—and its centrality to contemporary social and political theory. Tracing shifts in European representations of…

  • The Risks of Multiracial Identification The Chronicle of Higher Education 2006-11-10 Naomi Schaefer Riley The comment period has closed on proposed new guidelines from the U.S. Department of Education on how colleges should ask students about race. No longer, the guidelines say, should applicants simply be given the choice of black, white, Asian, American Indian…

  • Interracial families in South Africa: an exploratory study Rand Afrikaans University June 1994 310 pages (In English and Afrikaans) Lesley Morrall A dissertation presented in partial fulfillment of the requirement of the degree Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in Psychology in the Faculty of Arts at Rand Afrikaans University. Interracial marriage can be viewed as…

  • Familial Ethnic Socialization Among Adolescents of Latino and European Descent: Do Latina Mothers Exert the Most Influence? Journal of Family Issues Volume 27, Number 2 (February 2006) Pages 184-207 DOI: 10.1177/0192513X05279987 Andrea G. González University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor, Associate Professor, School of Social and Family Dynamics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences…

  • Empire’s progeny: The representation of mixed race characters in twentieth century South African and Caribbean literature 2006-01-01 355 pages Publication Number: AAT 3249543 Kathleen A. Koljian University of Connecticut A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, 2006. This dissertation is an…

  • Opinion: Are you mixed up? Malayasian Insider 2010-07-08 Praba Ganesan JULY 8 — Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is the poster child for Malaysians with mixed parentage. Not that he epitomises multiculturalism, the misguided doctor is far from that. He does however mirror the difficulties and challenges anyone of that situation experiences in a Malaysia averse…

  • A Visual and Sociological Study of the Hafus 2010-08-07 Through 2010-08-29 Tue-Thu & Sun 12:00-19:00 Fri&Sat 12:00-20:00 (Closed on Mondays and 14, 15, and 16 August ) 3331 Arts Chiyoda 6-11-14 Sotokanda, Chiyoda-Ku,Tokyo, 101-0021 Natalie Maya Willer, Photographer Marcia Yumie Lise, Researcher The Hafu Project is a visual and sociological study & representation of the…

  • Racial Quotas and the Culture War in Brazilian Academia Sociology Compass Volume 4 Issue 8 (August 2010) Pages 592 – 604 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2010.00295.x Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Michelle Peria University of California, Irvine Dozens of Brazilian universities recently adopted racial quotas for negros, read Afro-Brazilians, in higher education. Anyone…