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Month: July 2011

  • Talking About Brazil with Lilia Schwarcz

    Talking About Brazil with Lilia Schwarcz The New York Review of Books 2010-08-17 Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor of History Harvard University On a recent trip to Brazil, I struck up a conversation with Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, one of Brazil’s finest historians and anthropologists. The talk turned to the two subjects she has…

  • Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy

    Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR Paper (an imprint of Macmillan) September 2008 128 pages 7 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches Grade Range: 5 and up, Age Range: 10 and up ISBN: 978-0-374-40023-1, ISBN10: 0-374-40023-7 Andrea Warren An unforgettable true story of an orphan…

  • The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930

    The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930 Hill and Wang (an imprint of MacMillan) September 1999 224 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches ISBN: 978-0-8090-8789-1, ISBN10: 0-8090-8789-8 Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Professor of Sociology University of São Paulo, Brazil Translated by Leland Guyer, Professor of Hispanic Studies Macalester…

  • First Annual Black German Cultural Society Inc. Convention

    First Annual Black German Cultural Society Inc. Convention German Historical Institute 1607 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 2011-08-19 through 2011-08-21 The Black German Cultural Society, Inc. is excited to announce its First Annual Convention to be held from August 19 to 21, 2011, at the German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington, DC. With the…

  • “Germany’s ‘Brown Babies’ Must Be Helped! Will You?”: U.S. Adoption Plans for Afro-German Children, 1950-1955

    “Germany’s ‘Brown Babies’ Must Be Helped! Will You?”: U.S. Adoption Plans for Afro-German Children, 1950-1955 Callaloo Volume 26, Number 2 (Spring 2003) pages 342-362 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2003.0052 E-ISSN: 1080-6512 Print ISSN: 0161-2492 Yara-Colette Lemke Muniz de Faria This essay explores the debate that arose around the adoption of Black German children by African American parents and…

  • Who Is Black in Brazil? A Timely or a False Question in Brazilian Race Relations in the Era of Affirmative Action?

    At the end of 2001 the question of race became part of the Brazilian national agenda under the pressure of black social movements for the establishment of quotas for admission of Afro-Brazilians to public universities.

  • Long Lance

    Long Lance National Film Board of Canada 1986 Running Time: 00:55:00 Bernie Dichek, Director Was he a black man, a white man, or an Indian chief? This documentary looks at legendary and fascinating impostor Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance. In the early 1900s, he garnered international acclaim as a soldier, journalist, writer, photographer, bon vivant…

  • Marcia Dawkins to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Marcia Dawkins to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #217 – Marcia Dawkins When: Wednesday, 2011-07-27…

  • Maroon – On the Trail of Creoles in North America

    Maroon – On the Trail of Creoles in North America National Film Board of Canada 2005 Running Time: 01:15:08 André Gladu, Director Colette Loumède, Producer Louisiana’s Creole culture helped shape the New World and contributed to the emergence of jazz. But what remains of this unique, mixed-race society, with roots in France, Africa, the Caribbean,…

  • Inclusionary Discrimination: Pigmentocracy and Patriotism in the Dominican Republic

    Inclusionary Discrimination: Pigmentocracy and Patriotism in the Dominican Republic Political Psychology Volume 22, Issue 4 (December 2001) pages 827–851 DOI: 10.1111/0162-895X.00264 Jim Sidanius, Professor of Psychology and African and African American Studies Harvard University Yesilernis Pena Mark Sawyer, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Political Science University of California, Los Angeles This study explored…