Day: December 24, 2011

  • Decoding E. Shockley’s “mesostics from the american grammar book” Pt. 2 SIUE Black Studies Blog Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville 2011-10-13 Cindy Lyles Alongside [Evie] Shockley’s bold choice to write a poem using only names of black women, her stanza construction also makes a daring statement in “mesostics for the american grammar book.” The names are…

  • The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency Random House, Inc. 2011-08-16 336 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-37789-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-307-45555-0 Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law Harvard Law School Timely—as the 2012 presidential election nears—and controversial, here is the first book by a major African-American public intellectual on racial…

  • The Anglo-Indian Community American Journal of Sociology Volume 40, Number 2 (September, 1934) pages 165-179 Elmer L. Hedin Halcyon, California Of the several half-caste croups in Asia, the largest and most self-conscious is the Anglo-Indian Community. It numbers perhaps two hundred thousand persons who maintain themselves precariously on the outskirts of British-Indian officialdom, employed for…