Day: April 20, 2012

  • Real Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood [Review by Steve George] Ethnicities Volume 27, Number 2 (2005) Pages 272–274 Steve George Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland Real Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood. By Bonita Lawrence. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. Pp. 303, bibliography, index,…

  • Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Social Worlds Rutgers University Press 2005-05-18 264 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-3586-9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-3585-2 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8135-3757-3 Erica Chito Childs, Associate Professor of Sociology Hunter College, City University of New York Is love color-blind, or at least becoming increasingly so? Today’s popular rhetoric and evidence of more interracial…

  • The Mixed-race MilkBite™ Brad’s Blog: musings on sociology, religion, higher ed, and whatever else is going on in my life 2012-04-16 Bradley Koch, Assistant Professor of Sociology Georgia College & State University Here are a few commercials for the new MilkBite™ from Kraft. They play on stereotypes about mixed-race individuals. There are other spots on…

  • Film Review: Marley Film Journal International 2012-04-18 Marsha McCreadie Marley, the documentary by Oscar-winning Kevin Macdonald about the legendary musician and national and international symbol for individual rights, should sparkle and sing—OK, there’s some of that—but it just sort of hums along. Maybe you can’t catch this particular lightning in a bottle, but there might…

  • The Legend of Marley: Kevin Macdonald considers reggae, Rasta and politics in new documentary Film Journal International 2012-04-19 Doris Toumarkine It’s taken several decades and faced many frustrating setbacks, but a richly documented and worthy film about the late reggae superstar Bob Marley has at last been realized. Previously attached to Martin Scorsese and Jonathan…

  • The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, North Carolina: Their Origin and Racial Status. A Plea for Separate Schools (Electronic Edition) The Seeman Printery, Durham, North Carolina 1916 65 pages George Edwin Butler (1868-1941) Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Images scanned by Tampathia Evans Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., Tampathia Evans and…