Month: March 2011

  • Ethnic Identity of Biethnic Mexican American/European Americans Raised in Texas Texas Tech University May 2005 73 pages Kristal L. Menchaca A Thesis in Human Development and Family Studies Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Texas Tech University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science The primary purpose of this…

  • The Anti-Miscegenation History of the American Southwest, 1837 To 1970: Transforming Racial Ideology into Law Cultural Dynamics Volume 20, Number 3 (November 2008) pages 279-318 DOI: 10.1177/0921374008096312 Martha Menchaca, Professor of Anthropology University of Texas at Austin This article proposes that a historical analysis of court cases and state statutes can be used to illustrate…

  • Hapa Japan Conference Center for Japanese Studies Institute of East Asian Studies University of California, Berkeley 2011-04-08 through 2011-04-09 Introduction Agenda Registration Tickets: New Vision Award Recipient Jero, A Conversation & Mini-Concert Introduction Hapa is a Hawaiian term that is now widely used to describe someone of mixed racial or ethnic heritage. A New York…

  • Enka Superstar Jero: A Conversation and Mini-Concert University of California, Berkeley Wheeler Hall 2011-04-08, 20:00-21:15 PDT (Local Time) Free and open to the public The Center for Japanese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, is proud to announce that Jero, the Japanese-African-American enka singer, has been selected as the winner of the 2nd annual…

  • Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America [Review: Pascoe] Journal of Social History Volume 25, Number 1 (Autumn, 1991) pages 174-176 Peggy Pascoe (1954-2010), Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History University of Oregon Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America. By Paul R. Spickard (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press,…

  • White By Definition: Social Classification in Creole Louisiana Rutgers University Press May 1986 325 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-2088-9 Virginia Dominguez, Professor of Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Part I: The Legal Domain 2. Defining the Racial Structure 3. The Properties of Blood…

  • The Author Speaks: Interview With Daniel J. Sharfstein AARP Bulletin American Association of Retired Persons 2011-02-17 Julia M. Klein His powerful new book examines how three American families became white Before Daniel J. Sharfstein’s senior year at Harvard, he spent the summer of 1993 in South Africa as a volunteer for a voter education project.…

  • Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America [Review: Diner] American Historical Review Volume 96, Number 2 (April 1991) pages 624-625 Hasia R. Diner, Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History; Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies New York University Paul R. Spickard. Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century…

  • Cosmopolitan or mongrel? Créolité, hybridity and ‘douglarisation’ in Trinidad European Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 2, Number 3 (September 1999) pages 331-353 DOI: 10.1177/136754949900200303 Eve Stoddard, Dana Professor of Global Studies St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York Grant H. Cornwell, President College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio The article examines a Trinidadian calypso and its reception…

  • The Invisible Line Between Black and White Smithsonian.com 2011-02-18 T. A. Frail Vanderbilt professor Daniel Sharfstein discusses the history of the imprecise definition of race in America For much of their history, Americans dealt with racial differences by drawing a strict line between white people and black people. But Daniel J. Sharfstein, an associate professor…