Day: September 26, 2010

  • “Being a Half-breed”: Discourses of Race and Cultural Syncreticity in the Works of Three Metis Women Writers Canadian Literature “Native, Individual, State” Number 144, Spring, 1995 pages 82-96 Jodi Lundgren In his introduction to All My Relations, Thomas King asserts that “being Native is a matter of race rather than something more transitory such as…

  • IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas Smithsonian Institution 2009 256 pages 6 5/8 x 9 1/2 inches 115 color and black-and-white illustrations ISBN: 978-1-58834-271-3 Twenty-seven passionate essays explore the complex history and contemporary lives of people with a dual heritage that is a little-known part of American culture. Authors from across the Americas share…

  • African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation University of Oklahoma Press 2007 368 pages, 6″ x 9″ Illustrations: 15 color illustrations, 4 maps Hardcover ISBN: 9780806138152 Paperback ISBN: 9780806168951 Gary Zellar, Assistant Professor of History University of Saskatchewan A narrative history of the African Creek community Among the Creeks, they were known as Estelvste—black people—and…

  • Personal passion fuels Smithsonian exhibit San Francisco State University News 2010-02-12 Denize Springer The search for identity is particularly complex for Americans of both African and Native American heritage, according to Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies Robert Keith Collins. Of Choctaw and African American descent, Collins has turned a personal passion into a career.…

  • A dissertation: ‘Mixed-race’ identity among young adults in Britain University of Sussex 2010 Sophie Kingham This article addresses the various processes through which ‘mixed-race’ identity is constructed with relation to a national British identity. A multiplicity of belongings which are negotiated on an everyday basis were explored and analysed, alongside theoretical issues and problematic terminology.…

  • Passing and Performance in the 21st Century: Black-White Biracial Americans and Passing as Black American Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2010 Regular Session: Multi-Racial Classification/Identity Atlanta Marriott Marquis Monday, 2010-08-16, 16:30-18:10 EDT (Local Time) 35 pages Session Organizer: Rebecca C. King-O’Riain, Senior Lecturer of Sociology, National University of Ireland-Maynooth  Presider: Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor of…