Day: January 21, 2011

  • We Know Who We Are: Metis Identity in a Montana Community University of Oklahoma Press 2006 304 pages 6″ x 9″ Illustrations: 8 b&w illus., 5 tables Hardcover ISBN: 9780806137056 Martha Harroun Foster, Associate Professor of History Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro They know who they are. Of predominantly Chippewa, Cree, French, and Scottish descent,…

  • The Rise and Decline of Hybrid (Metis) Societies on the Frontier of Western Canada and Southern Africa The Canadian Journal of Native Studies Volume 3, Number 1 (1983) (Special Issue on the Metis) ISSN  0715-3244 Alvin Kienetz A comparison of the development of the Metis in Canada and similar peoples in Southern Africa reveals some…

  • The Quadroon Girl Poems on Slavery 1842 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Provided by the Maine Historical Society The Slaver in the broad lagoon   Lay moored with idle sail; He waited for the rising moon,   And for the evening gale. Under the shore his boat was tied,   And all her listless crew Watched…

  • Race, the Jamaican Body and Eugenics/Genomics: An Autobiographic Mediation Auto/Biography and Mediation 2010 pages 39-55 Edited by: Alfred Hornung, Professor of English and American Studies Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Written by: Eve Hawthorne, Professor of History Howard University Paul Vanouse, Associate Professor of Visual Studies The State University of New York, Buffalo Caribbean bodies are…

  • 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…