Month: April 2011

  • Creolization of the Atlantic World: The Portuguese and the Kongolese Portuguese Studies Volume 27, Number 1 (2011-03-01) pages 56-69 Francisco Bethencourt, Professor of History King’s College, London In the 1930s, Gilberto Freyre’s praise of mixed-race people in Brazil challenged the idea of white supremacy, contributing to the building of a new Brazilian identity. In the…

  • Ten Questions, with Adebe DeRango-Adem Open Book Toronto 2011-03-25 Adebe DeRango-Adem talks to Open Book about the anthology she co-edited with Andrea Thompson, Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out (Inanna Publications). The goal for this exciting anthology was not to nail down what identity means, but rather to open discussion and interrogate the diverse experiences…

  • Transcending Blackness in the 21st Century, or How Can I Be Like Barack Obama? Global Studies: A Member of the International Instutute University of Wisconsin, Madison Multiracial Tales and Multicultural Discourses 494 Van Hise Hall 2011-04-18, 17:30 CDT (Local Time) Ralina L. Joseph, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington As “postrace” is the buzzword…

  • Mixed Race on Campus: Multiracial Student Identities and Issues in Higher Education NCORE 2011 24 Annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education San Francisco, California 2011-05-31 through 2011-06-04 Thursday, 2011-06-02, 13:15–16:15 PDT (Local Time) Eric Hamako, Doctoral Candidate Social Justice Education Program University of Massachusetts, Amherst Multiracial and Mixed‑Race students are…

  • The Family Changes Colour: Interracial Families in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema Screen Volume 43 Issue 3 (Autumn 2002) pages 271-292 DOI: 10.1093/screen/43.3.271 Nicola J. Evans, Lecturer of Media and Cultural Studies University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia How profound the hatred, how deep the bigotry… that wakens in this image of black life blooming within…

  • Representation of Coloured Identity in Selected Visual Texts about Westbury, Johannesburg University of the Witwatersrand December 2006 132 pages Phyllis D. Dannhauser A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Dramatic Art). In post-apartheid South Africa, Coloured…

  • Being and Belonging: Space and Identity in Cape Town Anthropology and Humanism Volume 28, Issue 1 (June 2003) pages 61–84 DOI: 10.1525/ahu.2003.28.1.61 Shannon M. Jackson, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Missouri, Kansas City The post-apartheid transition has led to changes in the shape and meaning of urban space in South Africa. Cape Town is…

  • Then I Was Black: South African Political Identities in Transition Yale University Press 2000-06-19 304 pages 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN: 9780300080131 Courtney Jung, Associate Professor of Political Science The New School Do race and ethnicity present a danger to the consolidation of effective democratic government? Can liberal constitutionalism provide a stable basis…

  • Elite (re-)constructions of coloured identities in a post-apartheid South Africa: Assimilations and bounded transgressions Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick 2006 328 pages AAT 3249339 Michele René Ruiters A Dissertation submitted to the Graduate School – New Brunswick Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements for…

  • Mark Tawin’s Mississippi: Race, 1800-1850 Mark Twain’s Mississippi Project Partners: Northern Illinois University Libraries, The Newberry Library, The St. Louis Mercantile Library, Tulane University Libraries and  University of California, Berkeley Made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services 2005 Peter J. Kastor, Associate Professor of History and American Culture Studies…