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Month: July 2011

  • Race and Sociological Reason in the Republic: Inquiries on the Métis in the French Empire (1908-37)

    Race and Sociological Reason in the Republic: Inquiries on the Métis in the French Empire (1908-37) International Sociology Volume 17, Number 3 (September 2002) 361-391 DOI: 10.1177/0268580902017003002 Emmanuelle Saada, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies Columbia University This article compares two collective surveys on the métis conducted in 1908 and…

  • Do You See What I Am? How Observers’ Backgrounds Affect Their Perceptions of Multiracial Faces

    Do You See What I Am? How Observers’ Backgrounds Affect Their Perceptions of Multiracial Faces Social Psychology Quarterly Volume 73, Number 1 (March 2010) pages 58-78 DOI: 10.1177/0190272510361436 Melissa R. Herman, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dartmouth College Although race is one of the most salient status characteristics in American society, many observers cannot distinguish the…

  • Oreo, Topdeck and Eminem: Hybrid identities and global media flows

    Oreo, Topdeck and Eminem: Hybrid identities and global media flows International Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 14, Nubmer 2 (March 2011) pages 153-172 DOI: 10.1177/1367877910387971 Jane Stadler, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies University of Queensland, Australia The slang terms Oreo (someone who looks black but acts white) and Topdeck (someone who looks white…

  • How medicine is advancing beyond race

    How medicine is advancing beyond race CNN.com 2011-07-08 Elizabeth Landau, CNN.com Health Writer/Producer (CNN)—No matter what race you consider yourself to be, you have a unique genetic makeup. That’s why, as technology improves and researchers explore new implications of the human genome, medicine is going to become more individually tailored in a model called personalized…

  • The Misrepresentation of Loving v. Virginia

    The clever positioning by multiracial identity activists of the Loving marriage as the 1960s vanguards of multiraciality, promotes several troubling ideologies that should exposed and examined. These ideologies effectively distance the Lovings’ saga from the greater African-American struggle for freedom and justice. Firstly, the emphasis on the marriage of the Richard and Mildred Loving implies…

  • Negotiating Honor: Women and Slavery in Caracas, 1750-1854

    Negotiating Honor: Women and Slavery in Caracas, 1750-1854 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque May 2011 214 pages Sue E. Taylor A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History This study examines three interrelated groups—female slaves, female slave owners, and free women of African heritage—living in the…

  • Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

    Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba Cambridge University Press (available in the United States at University of Michigan Press here.) August 1974 224 pages 216 x 140 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521098465 Verena Martinez-Alier (a.k.a. Verena Stolcke), Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona An analysis of marriage patterns in nineteenth-century Cuba, a society…

  • Interracialism and Contemporary Religion

    Interracialism and Contemporary Religion Oklahoma State University 2007 105 pages AAT 1443028 Wayne S. White Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate College of the Oklahoma State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science The purpose of this study was to examine the myths and theories related to…

  • The Wormiest of Cans: who gets to be “mixed race”?

    The Wormiest of Cans: who gets to be “mixed race”? Racialicious 2011-07-12 Thea Lim A few days ago on Facebook I watched two community activists have a throwdown over the phrase “mixed race.” It began when Activist X posted a link to this article about the Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival and noted with…

  • Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius

    Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius Duke University Press 2004 360 pages 5 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-3402-6 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-3399-9 Megan Vaughan, Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History Cambridge University The island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 550 miles east of Madagascar. Uninhabited until the arrival of colonists…