Month: February 2012

  • Questioning Hybridity, Postcolonialism and Globalization Palgrave Macmillan May 2011 232 pages ebook ISBN: 9780230305243 Print ISBNs: 9780230298286 HB 9780230318519 DOI: 10.1057/9780230305243 Amar Acheraïou This book offers an accessible, in-depth analysis of hybridity as a practice, discourse, and ideological construction. Its scope ranges widely, encompassing conceptualizations of hybridity from ancient Greece and Rome to the present.…

  • When the Mirror Speaks: The Poetics and Problematics of Psychic Performance for métisse Women in Bristol Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, Visiting Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Duke University Chapter in: Ethnicity, Gender and Social Change Macmillan 1999 pages 206-222 ISBN-10: 0312217633; ISBN-13: 978-0312217631 Edited by: Rohit Barot, Harriet Bradley, and Steve Fenton Note…

  • Obama, Blackness, and Postethnic America The Chronicle of Higher Education 2008-02-29 David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History University of California, Berkeley The Obama candidacy challenges our notions of identity politics In their support for Hillary Rodham Clinton over Barack Obama, prominent black leaders have made it clear that black skin color itself…

  • Woman traces her Tanzanian roots in film The Citizen Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 2012-02-04 Tyrone Beason Sometimes a journey begins with a song. In the case of Seattle documentary filmmaker Eli Kimaro, it was a transporting version of the classic lullaby Summertime from the African-American opera Porgy and Bess, this one sung by the Benin-born…

  • Black Is a Multiracial Country The Atlantic 2011-02-15 Ta-Nehisi Coates, Senior Editor Tami [Tamara Winfrey Harris] finds out she’s 30 percent white. This changes nothing: So, now, after discovering that I am 70 percent sub-Saharan African with cultural ties to Balanta and Fula peoples in Guinea-Bissau, the Mende people in Sierra Leone, and the Mandinka people…

  • Race, Forgetting, and the Law The Atlantic 2010-07-30 Sara Mayeux Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America is a tour-de-force of archival research, bringing to light countless criminal prosecutions, civil cases, and bureaucratic decisions through which miscegenation laws were enforced not just in the South but throughout the…

  • Bertie County: An Eastern Carolina History Arcadia Publishing 2002-10-21 160 pages ISBN: 9780738523958 Arwin D. Smallwood, Associate Professor of History The University of Memphis The lives of the Native American, African, and European inhabitants of Bertie County over its 400 years of recorded history have not only shaped, but been shaped by its landscape. One…

  • Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes University of Massachusetts Press December, 2001 256 pages 6.125 x 9.25 ISBN (paper):  978-1-55849-310-0 Susan Sleeper-Smith, Professor of History Michigan State University An innovative study of cultural resilience and resistance in early America A center of the lucrative fur trade throughout the…

  • Plein Air: Mapping Mary Ann Armstrong Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments Number 24 (Fall/Winter 2009) Deborah Fries, Editorial Board Member The first time I saw her picture, I wanted to know everything about her.  I wanted to know where she’d lived before she married my great, great grandfather in 1859.  I…

  • Origin Traditions of American Racial Isolates: A Case of Something Borrowed Appalachian Journal Volume 11, Number 3 (Spring 1984) pages 201-213 David Henige University of Wisconsin, Madison Beginnings have an irritating but essential fragility and one that should be taken to heart by all who occupy themselves with history. —Pierre Teilhard de Chardin There are…