Month: January 2012

  • Mixed marriage: ‘I am coming to Senegal and I want to marry you’ Surprising Europe: Share Your Migration Experience Netherlands 2010-03-26 This website is part of the international cross-media project Surprising Europe, initiated by Ssuuna Golooba, who left Uganda in the hope of a better life. Surprising Europe consists of a documentary and a nine…

  • Multinational families, creolized practices and new identities: Euro-Senegalese cases Oxford University The Oxford Diasporas Programme 2011-01-01 through 2015-12-31 Hélène Neveu-Kringelbach, Oxford Diaspora Programme Research Fellow, African Studies Centre Junior Research Fellow St Anne’s College, University of Oxford The Oxford Diasporas Programme is a five-year research programme involving various centres at the University of Oxford and…

  • The Forgotten Diaspora: Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World Cambridge University Press March 2011 278 pages 8 b/w illus. 3 maps 228 x 152 mm Hardback ISBN:9780521192866 Peter Mark, Professor of Art History Wesleyan University, Connecticut José da Silva Horta Universidade de Lisboa This book traces the history of…

  • What’s Race Got to Do With It? The New York Times 2012-01-14 Lee Seigel Mitt Romney may not have officially clinched the Republican nomination, but his victory has never really been in doubt. Nor has his viability in November: the most fanatical Tea Partiers are not about to withhold their votes and risk allowing President…

  • A Critique of Pure Pluralism Chapter in: Reconstructing American Literary History Harvard University Press 1986 386 pages ISBN-10: 1583484167; ISBN-13: 978-1583484166 Edited by: Sacvan Bercovitch, Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature Harvard University pages 250-279 Chapter Author: Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Afro American Studies;…

  • Louis Riel and the dispersion of the American Métis Minnesota History Magazine Volume 49, Issue 5 (1985) Pages 179-190 Thomas Flanagan, Professor of Political Science University of Calgary, Alberta THE MÉTIS leader Louis Riel is perhaps best known to readers of Minnesota History in connection with the Red River insurrection of 1869-70. When Canada agreed…

  • Call at Rio fashion show for more black models Agence France-Presse 2012-01-14 Only a handful of black models sashayed down the catwalk at this week’s Rio fashion show, sparking fresh calls for quotas to ensure greater diversity in a country where more than half of the population is of African ancestry. Some 24 labels displayed…

  • Edward W. Blyden, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the ‘Color Complex’ The Journal of Modern African Studies Volume 30, Number 4 (December, 1992) pages 669-684 DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X00011101 Michael J. C. Echeruo, William Safire Professor in Modern Letters English Department Syracuse University This article is an attempt to present (and thereby to come to terms…

  • Mark Twain and Homer Plessy Representations Number 24, Special Issue: America Reconstructed, 1840-1940 (Autumn, 1988) pages 102-128 Eric J. Sundquist, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities Johns Hopkins University The carnivalesque drama of doubling, twinship, and masquerade that constitutes Pudd’nhead Wilson and its freakishly extracted yet intimately conjoined story, “Those Extraordinary Twins,” is likely…

  • Critical Ethnic Studies: An Anthology (Call for Papers) Rather than attempting to pose and answer the question, “What is critical ethnic studies?,” this anthology seeks to catalyze a more wide-ranging set of critical problems for emergent scholarly work and new forms of knowledge. Building on longstanding critiques of race, imperialism, and capital in ethnic studies…