Mixed Race Studies

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Month: August 2012

Pink and Blue in Black and White: Why Binary, Prescriptive Approaches to Human Categorization Still Won’t Yield the Desired Result

2012-08-21

Pink and Blue in Black and White: Why Binary, Prescriptive Approaches to Human Categorization Still Won’t Yield the Desired Result IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law Honors Scholars Program 2010 23 pages Karlyn Meyer INTRODUCTION: SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND MISCEGENATION A Texas court asked “can a physician change the gender of a person with a scalpel, drugs…
Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society

2012-08-20

Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society Indiana University Press 2012-08-16 336 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-253-00629-5 john a. powell, Professor of Law; Director Haas Diversity Research Center University of California, Berkeley Foreword by: David R. Roediger, Kendrick Babcock Professor of History and African American…
Imoinda’s Shade: Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759–1808

2012-08-20

“Imoinda’s Shade” examines the ways in which British writers utilize the most popular African female figure in eighteenth-century fiction and drama to foreground the African woman’s concerns and interests as well as those of a British nation grappling with the problems of slavery and abolition.
Ambivalent examples: The multiple Creole subjects of Spanish American nineteenth-century narrative

2012-08-20

Ambivalent examples: The multiple Creole subjects of Spanish American nineteenth-century narrative University of Pennsylvania 2006 371 pages Publication Number: AAT 3225427 ISBN: 9780542797194 Elisabeth L. Austin This dissertation proposes a paradigm for 19th-century Spanish American Creole subjectivity that considers it to be a multiple, unstable construct rather than a coherent or constant entity. From this…
Obama and Myths of Racial Democracy

2012-08-19

Obama and Myths of Racial Democracy NACLA Report North American Congress on Latin America 2008-11-17 Marisol LeBrón Political pundits have celebrated president-elect Barack Obama’s sweeping and historic victory as evidence that the United States has taken an initial step toward a “post-racial” or “colorblind” society. In a recent Los Angeles Times Op-Ed, Shelby Steele provocatively…
Myths of Racial Democracy: Cuba, 1900-1912

2012-08-19

Myths of Racial Democracy: Cuba, 1900-1912 Latin American Research Review Volume 34, Number 3 (1999) pages 39-73 Alejandro de la Fuente, UCIS Research Professor of History University of Pittsburgh This article reviews the recent literature on the so-called myths of racial democracy in Latin America and challenges current critical interpretations of the social effects of…
Punjabi Sikh-Mexican American community fading into history

2012-08-19

Punjabi Sikh-Mexican American community fading into history The Washington Post 2012-08-13 Benjamin Gottlieb Amelia Singh Netervala points to her mother’s chicken curry enchiladas as the best metaphor for her childhood. Born to a Punjabi Sikh father and Mexican mother, her family was full of cultural contradictions: She went to church on Sundays with her mother…
Obama and the black wave: Deconstructing myths, building strategies

2012-08-19

Obama and the black wave: Deconstructing myths, building strategies Pambazuka News: Pan-African Voices for Freedom and Justice 2009-02-19 (Issue 420) Raquel Luciana de Souza Having closely followed Barack Obama’s electoral success, Raquel Luciana de Souza considers the prospects for a presidential candidate of African descent within the South American giant of Brazil. Scrutinising the historical…
Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil 1888–1988

2012-08-19

For much of the twentieth century Brazil enjoyed an international reputation as a “racial democracy,” but that image has been largely undermined in recent decades by research suggesting the existence of widespread racial inequality.
Shifting Discourses: Exploring the Tensions between the Myth of Racial Democracy And the Implementation of Affirmative Action Policies in Brazil

2012-08-19

Shifting Discourses: Exploring the Tensions between the Myth of Racial Democracy And the Implementation of Affirmative Action Policies in Brazil Center for Latin American Social Policy – CLASPO Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies Summer Research Report University of Texas at Austin September 2005 29 pages Raquel Luciana de Souza 1. INTRODUCTION Are the…

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Month: August 2012