Month: July 2012

  • Interview with Brazilian Journalist and Activist Daniela Gomes The Husslington Post 2011-12-04 Amil Cook, Correspondent In this interview, Husslington Post correspondent, Amil Cook, goes in depth with journal/scholar/activist Daniela Gomes about her fight against racism in Brazil. This is the first installment in what we hope will become a series of interviews by Amil. How…

  • Ecco To Publish Pulitzer Prize Winning U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey’s Memoir HarperCollins Publishers 2012-06-28 Michael McKenzie New York, NY (June 28, 2012) – Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, is thrilled to announce that it has won the rights to publish Pulitzer Prize winning United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey’s untitled memoir in a…

  • For Daughters of the American Revolution, a New Chapter The New York Times 2012-07-03 Sarah Maslin Nir Olivia Cousins can trace her family in the United States to a soldier who joined the rebelling colonists when he was just 17. But when a friend suggested she join the Daughters of the American Revolution, an organization…

  • Follow MixedRaceStudies.org on Twitter MixedRaceStudies.org 2012-07-04 Steven F. Riley Thanks to a suggestion by University of Wisconsin History Professor Gregory Carter, all new posts on MixedRaceStudies.org will be simultaneously “tweeted” on Twitter at @mixed_race.

  • Freedom Road Spotlights St. Augustine History VisitFlorida.com 2012-06-29 Amy Wimmer Schwarb Derek Hankerson wanted to help educate people not only about Spanish Florida, but about the diverse groups who contributed to the country’s founding. A St. Augustine company is trying to reshape the American story – not to rewrite history, but to retell it. Derek…

  • The creation and intepretation of ‘mixed’ categories in Britain today darkmatter: in the ruins of imperial culture ISSN 2041-3254 Post-Racial Imaginaries [9.1] (2012-07-02) Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent The growth and recognition of ‘Mixed’ in Britain It is difficult to imagine a society (such as Britain) in which ethnic and racial categories,…

  • ‘ORPHEUS’; Legacy of Domination The New York Times 2000-09-03 Michael Hanchard, Professor of Political Science and African American Studies Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland To the Editor: In his observations about the differences in the Brazilian and foreign receptions of two very distinct cinematic renditions of the Orpheus tale [“Orpheus, Rising From Caricature,” Aug. 20],…

  • The first section introduces three popular metaphors about mixed-race objects and ‘racial bridges’ that Fanon used to invoke the threat of bestial, immature and consumerist Others – metaphors that were not swept away by the winds of change in the 1960s, or the decline and fall of Black internationalist movements in the 1970s.

  • Brazilian ethnoracial classification and affirmative action policies: Where are we and where do we go? Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity: Should we count, how should we count and why? 2007-12-06 through 2007-12-08 Montreal, Quebec Canada September 2007 12 pages José Luis Petruccelli, Senior Researcher Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, Brésil Brazilian society is characterized…

  • Coming Into their Own? The Afro-Latin Struggle for Equality and Recognition Grassroots Development Journal Inter-American Foundation African Descendants and Development (2007) Robert J. Cottrol, Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law and Professor of History and Sociology George Washington University Most Americans have at least a passing familiarity with the history of Afro-Americans in the…