Month: February 2011

  • “The Face Is the Road Map”: Vietnamese Amerasians in U.S. Political and Popular Culture, 1980–1988 Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 14, Number 1 (February 2011) pages 33-68 E-ISSN: 1096-8598; Print ISSN: 1097-2129 Jana K. Lipman, Assistant Professor of History Tulane University During the 1980s, U.S. politicians and the media presented Vietnamese Amerasians as quintessential…

  • 2011 Southern Arizona Asian American & Pacific Islander Conference “Reach, Inspire, Connect”   Pima Community College – West Campus 2202 West Anklam Road Tucson, Arizona 85709 Saturday, 2011-03-19 from 08:00 to 14:00 MDT (Local Time) Conference Program… 09:00-09:50 –  Session “A” Workshop 4:  Mixed Race – A popular 2009 workshop returning this year.  The presenter…

  • Miengun’s Children: Tales from a Mixed-Race Family Mrs. Jessie W. Hilton of Albuquerque, N.M., who summers at her cottage Mi-en-gun Walszh (Wolf’s Den) in Northport, was hostess at 5:00 o’clock Wednesday at Schuler’s of this city honoring Mrs. C. Stuker of Oak Park, III., house guest of her sister, Mrs. Basil Milliken of Oklahoma City,…

  • The Brokered World: Go-Betweens and Global Intelligence, 1770-1820, ed. Simon Schaffer, Lissa Roberts, Kapil Raj, James Delbourgo; Science History Publications, Sagamore Beach MA, 2009; 552 pp.; 0-88135-374-4.

  • More Hawaii residents identify as mixed race USA Today 2011-02-24 William M. Welch Hawaii, the nation’s most ethnically diverse state, has seen a big increase in residents identifying themselves as being of mixed race, according to Census data released Thursday. Among adults 18 and older, those saying they are of two or more races rose…

  • Black, Red and Proud: An Interview with Radmilla Cody The Root 2011-02-22 Cynthia Gordy Radmilla Cody’s crowning as Miss Navajo Nation in 1997 triggered an outcry and a conversation about what it means to be Native American. Now she’s featured in a museum exhibit showing the rarely told history of African-Native Americans. In a 1920…

  • Red/Black: Related Through History Eitejorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art White River State Park 500 West Washington Street Indianapolis, Indiana 2011-02-12 through 2011-08-07 Explore the interwoven histories of African Americans and Native Americans with Red/Black: Related Through History. This groundbreaking exhibition is the result of a partnership between the Eiteljorg Museum and the…

  • Seven Hours To Burn Women Make Movies USA/Canada, 1999 9 minutes Color/BW, VHS/16mm Order No. W01699 Shanti Thakur “A visually expressive personal documentary that explores a family’s history. Filmmaker Thakur mixes richly abstract filmmaking with disturbing archival war footage to narrate the story of her Danish mother’s and Indian father’s experiences. Her mother survives Nazi-occupied…

  • Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America [Review: Daniel] Contemporary Sociology Volume 22, Number 3 (May 1993) pages 381-382 Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America, by Paul R. Spickard. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. 532 pp. cloth ISBN: 0-299-12110-0. paper ISBN: 0-299-12114-3. G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University…

  • Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America Princeton University Press 2005 288 pages 6 x 9, 17 halftones, 1 line illustration, 2 maps ISBN13: 978-0-691-13379-9 Heide Fehrenbach, Presidential Research Professor of History Northern Illinois University When American victors entered Germany in the spring of 1945, they came armed not only with…