Month: November 2011

  • The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal Duke University Press November 2011 160 pages 20 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5210-5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5199-3 Orin Starn, Professor of Cultural Anthropology Duke University Perhaps the best golfer ever, Tiger Woods rocketed to the top of a once whites-only sport. Endorsements made…

  • Stuck at the border of the reserve: Self-identity and authentic identity amongst mixed race First Nations women University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada January 2010 330 pages Publication Number: AAT NR64501 ISBN: 9780494645017 Jaime Mishibinijima Miller A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of Graduate Studies of The University of Guelph by for the degree of…

  • Racial, Religious, and Civic Creole Identity in Colonial Spanish America The Journal of American History Volume 17, Issue 3 (Fall 2005) pages 420-437 DOI: 10.1093/alh/aji024 Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History University of Texas, Austin Patrocinio de la Virgen de Guadalupe sobre el Reino de Nueva España (“Auspices of Our Lady of Guadalupe…

  • Cultural identities of people of “mixed” backgrounds: racial, ethnic and national meanings in negotiation McGill University, Montreal 2005 Sahira Iqbal A thesis submitted to McGill University in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree ofMasters of Arts in Culture and Values in Education. This qualitative study aims to describe and understand the cultural identities…

  • Le métissage dans l’œuvre indochinoise de Marguerite Duras McGill University, Montreal 2006 106 pages Elisabeth Desaulniers Mémoire soumis à l’Université McGill en vue de l’obtention du grade de Maître ès arts (MA) en langue et littérature françaises This dissertation focuses on the issue of hybridity in Marguerite Duras’ corpus of Indochinese texts, as well as…

  • Post-Raciality or a Re-Imagining of Whiteness: an Interview with Clarence E. Walker Platform: Journal of Media and Communication Volume 3, Issue 1, Media and “Race” (April 2011) pages 26-34 ISSN: 1836-5132 Sandy Watson, University of Melbourne, Australia Clarence Walker is recognised as one of the leading historians of American race relations, and is noted for…

  • Eugenics and Mongrelization [Letter and Response] The Eugenics Review Volume 32, Number 1 (April 1940) pages 28-30 To the Editor, Eugenics Review SIR, In order that the eugenics movement shall advance successfully, the eugenics organizations must dissociate their endeavours from the widespread propaganda for race amalgamation and mongrelization. There is little wisdom in breeding selectively among…

  • Multiracial Identity: New Models and Frameworks for Describing and Understanding the Experience of Race and Identity National Conference on Race & Ethnicity (NCORE) 2012 New York, New York 2012-05-29 through 2012-06-02 Date & Time To Be Determined Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe, Ed.D, Consultant in Organizational Development and Social Justice Education For two decades, research on Multiracial…

  • “Transnational Crossroads” explores and triangulates for the first time the interactions and contacts among these three cultural groups that were brought together by the expanding American empire from 1867 to 1950.

  • Bridgetower – Black Musicians and British Culture, 1807-2007 Gresham College 2007-07-02 Mike Phillips, Professor of Music Gresham College George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, the son of an Abyssinian slave, was hailed as a musical prodigy in the eighteenth century. Taught by Haydn, his appearance at the court in Windsor to play in front of George III…