Month: September 2011

  • California’s Hispanic Heritage: A View Into the Spanish Myth The Journal of San Diego History San Diego Historical Society Quarterly Volume 19, Number 1 (Winter 1973) Manuel Patricio Servin, Professor of Southwestern and Mexican-American History Arizona State University, Tempe No aspect of Borderlands’ history has been more distorted than that of the Spanish colonization of…

  • The first mixed race student is admitted to Wheaton Wheaton College History Wheaton College, Newton, Massachusetts 2011-02-02 Deanna Hauck The first African-American student to attend Wheaton probably did so unbeknownst to the school. In 1856-57, Mary E. Stafford of Cumberland Island, Georgia attended Wheaton. She was the daughter of a white father [Robert Stafford] and an…

  • The Anglo-Indians: A Disorganized Marginal Group Social Forces Volume 14, Number 2 (December 1935) pages 263-268 Paul Frederick Cressey, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Wheaton College, Newton, Massachusetts FOUR centuries of European contact with India have left a biological residue of many thousand people of mixed European and Indian stock. Since 1911 this group has…

  • How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon Verso Books October 2008 Hardback, 240 pages Paperback, 272 pages Hardback ISBN: 9781844672752 Paperback ISBN: 9781844674343 David R. Roediger, Foundation Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History University of Kansas An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by…

  • Interracial Marriage and Admixture in Hawaii Biodemography and Social Biology Volume 17, Issue 4 (1970) pages 278-291 DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1970.9987885 Clarence E. Glick, Professor of Sociology University of Hawaii Michener’s phrase “the golden men of Hawaii” reflects a popular romantic interest in the blending of ethnic elements that has been going on in Hawaii for almost…

  • The Hybrid in Hawaii as a Marginal Man American Journal of Sociology Volume 39, Number 4 (January 1934) pages 459-468 William C. Smith William Jewell College Several factors conspire to make the hybrid in Hawaii occupy a position markedly different from that of the mixed-blood in other areas. The relative absence of race prejudice on the…

  • Beyond Liverpool, 1957: Travel, diaspora, and migration in Jamal Mahjoub’s The Drift Latitudes The Journal of Commonwealth Literature Volume 46, Number 3 (September 2011) pages 493-511 DOI: 10.1177/0021989411409813 Jopi Nyman, Professor University of Eastern Finland, Finland This essay discusses the novel The Drift Latitudes (2006) by the Anglo-Sudanese author Jamal Mahjoub. By telling the stories…

  • The Drift Latitudes Chatto & Windus 2006-02-02 320 pages ISBN-13: 978-0701178222 Jamal Mahjoub Liverpool, 1958, and German refugee and inventor Ernst Frager is in search of a sense of belonging. What he finds is an unusual nightclub on the Merseyside docks, and Miranda: hat-check girl, aspiring jazz singer and daughter of West Indian immigrants. Their…

  • German science and black racism—roots of the Nazi Holocaust The FASEB Journal (The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) Volume 22, Number 2 (2008) pages 332-337 DOI: 10.1096/fj.08-0202ufm François Haas, Associate Professor Department of Rehabilitation Medicine New York University The Nazi’s cornerstone precept of “racial hygiene” gave birth to their policy…

  • Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-first Century School for Advanced Research Press 2011 280 pages 1 map, 3 tables, 6 appendices, notes, references, index 7 x 10 Circe Dawn Sturm, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Texas, Austin In Becoming Indian, author Circe Sturm examines Cherokee identity politics and the phenomenon…