Month: May 2012

  • An Estimate of Assimilation Rate of Mixed-Blood Aborigines in New South Wales Oceania Volume 32, Number 3 (March, 1962) pages 187-190 J. Le Gay Brereton Some anthropologists have suggested that the Aboriginal population of New South Wales (very largely mixed-bloods) will prefer integration to assimilation. It is therefore important to obtain some estimate of the…

  • Examining the Legacy of European Names in the Elmina-Cape Coast Area of Ghana Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies Volume 1, Number 3 (2007) 22 pages Amma Kyerewaa Akrofi Texas Tech University Lawrence Owusu-Ansah Texas Tech University The prevalence of European family and place names in Fante areas of Ghana is one of the best known…

  • Does The Heritage Controversy Tell Us More About Warren Or The Media? Radio Boston WBUR 2012-05-22 Dan Mauzy, Associate Producer Hosts Meghna Chakrabarti, Co-Host Anthony Brooks, Co-Host Guests Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law (member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma) Syracuse University David Catanese, National Political Reporter Politico Here’s a bit of a…

  • The Relationship Between Colour and Identity in the Literature of Nella Larsen and Richard Wright Lethbridge Undergraduate Research Journal Volume 3, Number 2 (June 2008) ISSN 1718-8482 Elisabeth Hudson King’s College London The fiction of Nella Larsen and Richard Wright explores the struggle of African-American men and women to forge an identity for themselves that…

  • Clare Kendry’s “True” Colors: Race and Class Conflict in Nella Larsen’s Passing Callaloo Volume 15, Number 4 (Autumn, 1992) pages 1053-1065 Jennifer DeVere Brody, Professor of Drama Stanford University Interpretations of Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) often have failed to explain the complex symbolism of the narrative. Indeed, dismissive or tendentious criticisms of the text have…

  • The Hypervisible Man: Obama as the First Black, Mixed-Race, Asian American and now Gay President Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2012-05-24 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim “I have always sensed that he [Obama] intuitively understands gays and our predicament—because it so mirrors his own. And he knows how the love and sacrifice of marriage can…

  • Black White & Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self Riverhead Press (an imprint of Penguin Press) 2002-01-08 336 pages 5.23 x 8.03in ISBN 9781573229074 Rebecca Walker ALA Best Book for Young Adults The Civil Rights movement brought author Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Leventhal together, and in 1969 their daughter, Rebecca, was born. Some saw…

  • The Commoditization of Hybridity in the 1990s U.S. Fashion Advertising: Who Is cK one? in Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation Palgrave MacMillan September 2005 272 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6533-2, ISBN10: 1-4039-6533-1 Edited by Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Professor of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Barnard…

  • Bessora: A Writer with a Thirty-Eight Shoe Size Wasafiri Volume 24, Issue 2 (2009) pages 60-65 DOI: 10.1080/02690050902771779 Adele King The character of literary criticism combined with pedagogical strategies tends to categorise, moving one accepted orthodoxy forward by pushing another out of the way. Early approaches to European literature were to treat it as a…

  • Cuban surrealist Wifredo Lam fetches record price BBC News 2012-05-24 A painting by Cuban surrealist artist Wifredo Lam fetched a record personal price at a Latin American art sale at auctioneers Sotheby’s in New York. An unnamed South American collector paid $4.5m (£2.9m) for Lam’s 1944 Idol (Oya/Divinite de l’Air et de la mort), well…