Month: July 2011

  • Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions Harvard University Press ISBN 9780674035911 February 2010 352 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches, 21 halftones, 2 maps Jane G. Landers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History Vanderbilt University 2011 Rembert Patrick Award, Florida Historical Society Sailing the tide of a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group…

  • Racial Taxonomy in Genomics Social Science & Medicine Volume 73, Issue 7, October 2011 pages 1019–1027 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.07.003 Catherine Bliss, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Race and Science Studies Department of Africana Studies Brown University This article examines the reflexive, biosocial nature of genomic meaning making around race, drawing on discourse analysis of 732 articles…

  • Environmental Influences on the Development of Female College Students Who Identify as Multiracial/Biracial-Bisexual/Pansexual Journal of College Student Development Volume 52, Number 4 (July/August 2011) pages 440-455 E-ISSN: 1543-3382 Print ISSN: 0897-5264 Alissa R. King, Instructor in Social Sciences Iowa Central Community College Using Renn’s (2000, 2004) ecology of college student development model as a theoretical…

  • Behavioral Health in Multiracial Adolescents: The Role of Hispanic/Latino Ethnicity Public Health Reports Volume 121 (March–April 2006) pages 169-174 Arthur L. Whaley Hogg Foundation for Mental Health University of Texas, Austin Kimberly Francis Hogg Foundation for Mental Health University of Texas, Austin SYNOPSIS Objectives. The purpose of the present study was twofold: (1) to determine…

  • Race mixing not only disregards the age-long experience of man and constitutional guarantees, but as it is now taught, is a religious fraud.

  • GIs and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany University of North Carolina Press December 2001 360 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 13 photos, 1 map, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5375-7 Maria Höhn, Professor of History Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York With the outbreak of the Korean War, the poor, rural West German state…

  • When Danzy Senna’s parents married in 1968, they seemed poised to defy history: two beautiful young American writers from wildly divergent backgrounds—a white woman with a blue-blood Bostonian lineage and a black man, the son of a struggling single mother and an unknown father.

  • A number of serious problems with using race/ethnicity as a variable in genetics research have emerged in our analysis of our interviews with this group of genetic scientists. At the most basic level, the common racial/ethnic classifications they routinely use are of questionable value for delineating genetically related groups. The ubiquitous OMB categories in fact…

  • His life is the stuff of legend: born in 1739 of a slave mother and a French noble father, he became the finest swordsman of his age, an insider at the court of The Sun King, and, most of all, an accomplished musician who came to be known as the “Black Mozart.”

  • The ever-engaging work of the controversial activist/writer, May Ayim, covers a fascinating range of themes: biography, politics, love as well as the absurdities of everyday life. Her unique ability to passionately transform diverse subject matters into poetic language is revealed in this important collection of translated pieces.