Month: August 2012

  • Kelly Holmes is not fully British, says BNP MEP Andrew Brons The Telegraph 2009-06-13 Patrick Sawer Andrew Brons, the BNP’s first MEP, sparked outrage on Saturday after he said double Olympic gold medal winner Dame Kelly Holmes cannot be regarded as fully British. Mr Brons, who became the first member of the British National Party…

  • American Indians in Chicago struggle to preserve identity, culture and history Chicago Tribune 2012-08-13 Dahleen Glanton, Reporter Recession, social service funding cuts hinder efforts Susan Kelly Power was 17 when she boarded a train to Chicago, a place that seemed a world away from the Indian reservation she grew up on in North and South…

  • Intermarriage of Races is Urged by Sociologist Chicago Tribune 1909-08-18 page 11 Source: The Mead Project, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada Prof. William I. Thomas Predicts the Disappearance of Color Line in Prejudices of Civilized Peoples.   Disappearances of the racial “color lines” was predicted yesterday by Prof. William I. Thomas of the University…

  • A Response to Ben Pitcher’s “Obama and the Politics of Blackness: Antiracism in the ‘post-black’ Conjuncture” [Rickey Hill] Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society Volume 12, Issue 4 (2010) (Post-Racial Politics and Its Discontents) pages pages 347-350 DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2010.526058 Rickey Hill, Professor of Social Science Mississippi Valley State University, Itta Bena,…

  • Questioning Being Black and White in Canada Canadian Dimension: for people who want to change the world 2012-08-24 Denise Hansen “Canadians have a favourite pastime, and they don’t even realize it. They like to ask—they absolutely love to ask—where you are from if you don’t look convincingly white. They want to know it, they need…

  • Cultural versus Social Marginality: The Anglo-Indian Case Phylon (1960-) Volume 28, Number 4 (4th Quarter, 1967) pages 361-375 Noel P. Gist Human history has been replete with examples of peoples destined to exist on the margin of two or more cultures. One of these marginal peoples is the Anglo-Indian community in India. This community, whose…

  • A British Ireland, or the limits of race and hybridity in Maria Edgeworth’s novels Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2009-09-21 73 pages Kimberly Philomen Clarke 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…

  • The Russian Creoles of Alaska as a Marginal Group Social Forces Volume 22, Number 2 (December 1943) pages 204-208 Margaret Mary Wood Russell Sage College The interest in Alaska which has been aroused by its strategic importance in the present world-war conflict is bringing to the fore as worthy of attention many problems of this…

  • Beautiful stereotypes: the relationship between physical attractiveness and mixed race identity Identities: Global Studies in Power and Culture Volume 19, Number 1, 2012-01-01 pages 61-80 DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2012.672838 Jennifer Patrice Sims The idea that mixed race individuals are physically attractive is a commonly accepted stereotype. Past research in which whites (Australians and British) and Asians (Japanese)…

  • Caribbean Fashion Week: Remodeling Beauty in “Out of Many One” Jamaica Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture Volume 14, Number 3, September 2010 pages 387-404 DOI: 10.2752/175174110X12712411520377 Carolyn Cooper, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica The elitist Jamaican motto, “Out of Many, One People,“ privileges…