Day: October 9, 2010

  • Ethnic Studies 064: Mixed Race Descent in the Americas Mills College, Oakland, California Fall 2010 Melinda Micco, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies This is an introductory course that examines the historical and theoretical development of identities and of communities of multiracial and multiethnic people. In the academy, in government, and in popular culture, the lives…

  • Redeeming the “Character of the Creoles”: Whiteness, Gender and Creolization in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue Journal of Historical Sociology Volume 23, Issue 1 (March 2010) pages 40–72 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6443.2009.01359.x Yvonne Fabella, Lecturer of History University of Pennsylvania This article examines the political significance of white creolization in pre-revolutionary French Saint Domingue. Eighteenth-century Europeans tended to view…

  • Scholars have long heralded mestizaje, or race mixing, as the essence of the Cuban nation. “Revolutionizing Romance” is an account of the continuing significance of race in Cuba as it is experienced in interracial relationships. This ethnography tracks young couples as they move in a world fraught with shifting connections of class, race, and culture…