Month: July 2012

  • Constructing Dialogue, Constructing Identites: Mixed Heritage Identity Construction in “Half and Half” Georgetown University 2009-04-16 55 pages Anissa Jane Sorokin A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Language and Communication This…

  • HIST 387 004: Inventing the Nation in Latin America George Mason University Spring 2012 Matt Karush, Associate Professor of History Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Latin Americans have struggled to define themselves and their nations. This quest for identity has involved governments, intellectuals, and artists, but also ordinary men and women. And the results…

  • Blackness in Argentina: Jazz, Tango and Race Before Perón* Past and Present Volume 216, Issue 1 (August 2012) pages 215-245 DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gts008 Matthew B. Karush, Associate Professor of History George Mason University On the question of race and nation, the dominant Latin American paradigm has never applied to Argentina. In Mexico, Brazil and elsewhere, twentieth-century…

  • This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Michael Banton’s classic book reviews historical theories of racial and ethnic relations and contemporary struggles to supersede them. It shows how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century concepts of race attempted to explain human difference in terms of race as a permanent type and how these were followed by social scientific…

  • Brazil’s New Racial Politics Lynne Rienner Publishers 2009 251 pages ISBN: 978-1-58826-666-8 Edited by: Bernd Reiter, Associate Professor of Political Science University of South Florida Gladys L. Mitchell (Gladys Mitchell-Walthour), Assistant Professor of Political Science Denison University, Granville, Ohio As the popular myth of racial equality in Brazil crumbles beneath the weight of current grassroots…

  • Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, “Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians” examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture—especially dress—was central to the elaboration of discourses about race.

  • This book examines significant aspects of President Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father both in relation to the African American literary tradition and to the context of the relevant historical and cultural productions that inform it.

  • The Heart of Hyacinth University of Washington Press 2000 (Originally published in 1903) 288 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 Paperback ISBN: paperback (9780295979168 Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton) (1875-1954) Introduction by: Samina Najmi, Professor of English California State University, Fresno The Heart of Hyacinth, originally published in 1903, tells the coming-of-age story of Hyacinth Lorrimer, a child…

  • Ambivalent passages: racial and cultural crossings in Onoto Watanna’s The Heart of Hyacinth MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 34, Number 1 (Spring 2009) pages 211-229 DOI: 10.1353/mel.0.0004 Huining Ouyang, Professor of English Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin Appearing in the early fall of 1903 in time for the Christmas season, The Heart of Hyacinth,…

  • A Mulatto Area Gets Own School The New York Times 1962-09-16 page 73 Hedrick Smith, Special to the New York Times Desegregation Moves Roi Louisiana Caste System BURAS, La., Sept. 13—Freda’s Hi-Lo Bar sits just off State Highway 23 as the road chases the Mississippi River on its last 100 miles from the suburbs of…