Month: January 2011

  • A shameful history: Nowhere People: How International Race Thinking Shaped Australia’s Identity [Book Review] The Lancet Volume 366, Issue 9495 (October 2005) page 1428 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67586 Caroline de Costa, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Director of the Clinical School James Cook University School of Medicine, Cairns Campus, North Queensland, Australia Nowhere People: How International Race…

  • The Other Hafu of Japan Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanses Daily News 2011-01-14 Brett Fujioka, Rafu Intern A new documentary examines the lives of racially mixed individuals as they explore their own identities. Is a ship the same if you take it apart piece by piece and replace its frame? No simple answer exists, as…

  • Racial Reorganization and the United States Census 1850–1930: Mulattoes, Half-Breeds, Mixed Parentage, Hindoos, and the Mexican Race Studies in American Political Development Volume 22, Issue 1 (March 2008) pages 59-96 DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X08000047 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University Brenna Marea Powell, Associate Director…

  • Racial Measurement in the American Census: Past Practices and Implications for the Future Annual Review of Sociology Volume 29 (August 2003) pages 563-588 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.29.010202.100006 C. Matthew Snipp, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity Stanford University In 1977, the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB)…

  • A Race about Race: Race, Inter-Race and Post-Race in the Study of Human Genetics Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism Volume 30, Number 2 (September/October 2002) Paul Vanouse, Associate Professor of Visual Studies The State University of New York, Buffalo In 1929, Charles B. Davenport, Director of the Biological Laboratory at Cold…

  • A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America, edited by Frank Shuffelton (Oxford University Press, 1993) [Review] African American Review Volume 29, Number 1 (Spring 1995) pages 149-152 Raymond F. Dolle, Associate Professor of English Indiana State University A Mixed Race extends the recent work of ethnographic critics, such as James Clifford (The Predicament of Culture:…

  • Oreo Northeastern University Press (now University Press of New England) 2000 (Originially published in 1974.) 224 pages 6 x 9″ Fran Ross Forward by Harryette Mullen This uproariously funny satire about relations between African Americans and Jews is as fresh and outrageous today as when it was first published in 1974. Born to a Jewish…

  • Traveling Identities: Mixed Race Quests and Fran Ross’s “Oreo” African American Review Volume 40, Number 1 (Spring 2006) Tru Leverette University of North Florida, Jacksonville The Frontier: Where Two Come Together Traveling to my grandmother’s funeral during my first marriage, my white husband and I walked down the narrow plane aisle toward our seats. In…

  • “Dreams from My Father” tells the story of Obama’s struggle to understand the forces that shaped him as the son of a black African father and white American mother—a struggle that takes him from the American heartland to the ancestral home of his great-aunt in the tiny African village of Alego.

  • Nowhere People Penguin Books Australia January 2005 300 pages Paperback ISBN-13:9780143001911 Henry Reynolds, Emeritus Associate Professor of History and Politics James Cook University, Australia ‘That’s how at six at night on 11 May 1928 I stopped being a Yanyuwa child and became a nowhere person… Motherless, cultureless and stuck in a government institution because my…