Day: August 26, 2010

  • The Shadow King Mariner Books an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2004-11-23 320 pages Trim Size: 5.50 x 8.25 Paperback ISBN-13/EAN: 9780618485369; ISBN-10: 0618485368 Jane Stevenson, Regius Chair of Humanity University of Aberdeen In The Shadow King, Jane Stevenson illuminates the world of the intriguing Balthasar Stuart, the secret biracial child born of the illicit…

  • Panel: Exploring the Historical Context for Contemporary Stories of the Mixed Experience Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival Japanese American National Musuem National Center for Democracy, Tateuchi Democracy Forum 2010-06-13, 18:30 to 19:30Z Moderator Frank Buckley, Co-Anchor KTLA Morning News Panelists Kelly F. Jackson, Assistant Professor of Social Work Arizona State University Farzana Nayani, President…

  • Shades of Gray American Jewish Life Magazine January/February 2007 E. B. Solomont Lacey Schwartz had the typical middle-class Jewish upbringing in upstate New York. Until her 18th birthday when her mom told her she was the product of an affair with a black man. Now Lacey is making a documentary about her newfound life as…

  • Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race, 2nd Edition Routledge 1994-12-14 248 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-31183-0 Robert J. C. Young, Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature New York University As one of the most important books in post-colonial studies, this book argues that contemporary theories on post-colonialism and ethnicity are disturbingly close to…

  • Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race Farrar, Straus and Giroux (an imprint of MacMillan) April 1998 84 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0-374-52533-0, ISBN10: 0-374-52533-1 Patricia J. Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia Law School In these five eloquent and passionate pieces (which she gave as the…

  • My point of departure begins with the social and political fact of being both a Black woman who is Jewish and a Jewish woman who is Black in order to undermine the presupposition of inherent cultural or racial differences that favors the vocabulary of mixed or hybrid identities over the conjunction [both.. and]. Instead of…