Month: January 2012

  • 2011 Brigitte M. Bodenheimer Lecture on Family Law by Professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig: “According to Our Hearts: What Does the Rhinelander v. Rhinelander Case Teach Us about Race, Law, and Family?” University of California, Davis School of Law Kalmanovitz Appellate Courtroom 2011-11-08, 16:00-18:00 PST (Local Time) Run Time: 01:05:58 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J.…

  • Public Mothers: Native American and Métis Women as Creole Mediators in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest Journal of Women’s History Volume 14, Number 4, Winter 2003 Special Issue: Revising the Experiences of Colonized Women: Beyond Binaries Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Professor of History Ohio State University, Newark During the early nineteenth century, the largely Francophone, mixed ancestry residents…

  • Assimilation in Eighteenth-Century Senegal John D. Hargreaves, Burnett-Fletcher Professor Emeritus of History University of Aberdeen, Scotland The Journal of African History Volume 6, Number 2 (1965) pages 177-184 Although historians are becoming more aware of the importance of communities of West Africans with experience of European education, institutions and culture, they have so far paid…

  • Asking readers to imagine a history of Mexico narrated through the experiences of Africans and their descendants, this book offers a radical reconfiguration of Latin American history. Using ecclesiastical and inquisitorial records, Herman L. Bennett frames the history of Mexico around the private lives and liberty that Catholicism engendered among enslaved Africans and free blacks,…

  • Foucault, Bakhtin, Ethnomethodology: Accounting for Hybridity in Talk-in-Interaction Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research Volume 8, Number 2, Article 10 May 2007 18 pages Shirley Anne Tate, Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies University of Leeds Theorising hybridity within Postcolonial Studies is often done at a level which…

  • Racism and skin colour: the many shades of prejudice The Guardian 2011-10-04 Bim Adewunmi Deeply entrenched attitudes towards colour, and the increasing promotion of skin-lightening products, are placing a ‘horrible burden’ on dark-skinned women Next week, at the international black film festival in Nashville, Bill Duke and D Channsin Berry will premiere their new documentary,…

  • The Case of Loving v. Bigotry The New York Times 2012-01-01 Julie Bosman Photography by: Grey Villet In 1958, Richard and Mildred Loving were arrested in a nighttime raid in their bedroom by the sheriff of Caroline County, Va. Their crime: being married to each other. The Lovings—Mildred, who was of African-American and Native American…

  • Were the riots about race? The Guardian 2011-12-08 Reading the Riots: Investigating England’s summer of disorder In partnership with the London School of Economics Supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Open Society Foundations Hugh Muir, Diary Editor Yemisi Adegoke, Freelance Journalist Some commentators were quick to call them ‘race riots’, but the true…

  • Born Along the Racial Fault Line The New York Times 2011-11-06 Janet Maslin My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir By Mark Whitaker. Illustrated. 357 pages. Simon & Schuster. As a social studies major in his junior year at Harvard, Mark Whitaker attended a debate on the subject of ethnicity. One participant was the chairman…

  • The Retreat of Scientific Racism: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars Cambridge University Press September 1993 396 pages 228 x 152 mm ISBN: 9780521458757 DOI: 10.2277/0521458757 Elazar Barkan, Professor of International and Public Affairs Columbia University This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation…