Month: August 2012

  • In Search of Something Akin to Freedom: Black Women, Slavery, and Power Florida State University 2007 78 pages Katrina Songanett Smith A Thesis submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts   This thesis examines both historical and fictional representations of interracial relationships in…

  • UCSB Ph.D. Alum Overcomes Odds and Pays Back With History Grad Parent Award UCSB GradPost University of California, Santa Barbara 2012-07-20 Patricia Marroquin, Guest Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly believes strongly in paying back and paying forward. When she was a History Ph.D. student at UCSB just a few years ago, “graduate school was quite difficult…

  • Capturing complexity in the United States: which aspects of race matter and when? Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Issue 8, 2012 Special Issue:Accounting for ethnic and racial diversity: the challenge of enumeration pages 1484-1502 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.607504 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University The experience of race in the United States is shaped…

  • From deracialization to racial distinction: interpreting Obama’s successful racial narrative Social Semiotics Volume 23, Issue 1 (2013) pages 119-145 DOI: 10.1080/10350330.2012.707039 Charlton McIlwain, Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication New York University While many scholars attribute Barack Obama’s success in the 2008 presidential election to his so-called deracialized campaign strategy, I argue that Obama…

  • Mixed-Race and Modernity in Colonial India: Changing Concepts of Hybridity Across Empires Routledge 2012-02-29 208 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-50429-4 Adrian Carton Centre for Cultural Research University of Western Sydney, Australia This book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India by contrasting Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces. Starting in the sixteenth century,…

  • The Meeting Place: Māori and Pākehā Encounters, 1642–1840 Aukland University Press May/June 2012 320 pages 228 x 148 mm Paperback ISBN: 978 1 86940 594 6 Vincent O’Malley, Research Director HistoryWorks Ltd., Wellington, New Zealand How did Māori and Pākehā negotiate a meeting place? Would Māori observe the Sabbath? Should Pākehā fear the power of…

  • Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival 2012 Multicultural Familia: Educating & Empowering Modern Familes 2012-07-27 Glenn Robinson   Two-thousand twelve was another fun and inspirational Mixed Roots festival in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.   Highlights from the movies and readings that I attended:   Friday evening was the beautiful and inspirational movie The Loving Story……

  • Rosario Dawson and the Ambiguous Blackness of Latinidad antenna 2012-08-05 Keara Goin As has become abundantly clear to me over the course of my research, in the context of contemporary popular U.S. racial discourse, one is either Latina/o or Black, not both. Moreover, we see this phenomenon replicated in U.S. cinema, where characters played by…

  • Who Gets To Decide Who Is Native American? Tell Me More National Public Radio 2012-08-09 Michel Martin, Host Rob Capriccioso, Washington Bureau Chief Indian Country Today Media Network Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan A controversy about identity has erupted in the race for…

  • Census to Change Categories on Race The Associated Press 2012-08-09 The Census Bureau wants to make broad changes to its surveys to keep pace with changing notions of race. The changes would drop use of the term “Negro,” leaving a choice of “black” or “African-American.” It would count Hispanics as separate from blacks and whites.…