Month: September 2012

  • Miss., US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey to read poetry at JSU Clarion-Ledger Jackson, Mississippi 2012-08-21 Special to The Clarion-Ledger   Pulitzer Prize winner and current Mississippi and United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey will read her poetry at Jackson State University at 3 p.m. Sept. 20 in room 166/266 of the Dollye M.E. Robinson College…

  • “No more kiyams”: Métis women break the silence of child sexual abuse University of Victoria,  British Columbia, Canada 2004 146 pages Lauralyn Houle A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK In the Faculty of Human and Social Development “No more kiyams” Métis women break the…

  • Henry Louis Rey, Spiritualism, and Creoles of Color in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans University of New Orleans 2009-12-20 72 pages Melissa Daggett A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History This thesis is a biography of…

  • By unflinchingly charting the intersections of public and personal history, “Thrall” explores the historical, cultural, and social forces—across time and space—that determine the roles consigned to a mixed-race daughter and her white father.

  • Native Guard: Poems Mariner Books an Imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2007-04-03 64 pages Trim Size: 5.50 x 8.25 Paperback ISBN-13/EAN: 9780618872657; ISBN-10: 0618872655 Natasha Trethewey, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing Emory University Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught…

  • The Aborigines Act, 1911 [Australia] 1911-12-07 Number 1048 Source: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies An Act to make provision for the better Protection and Control of the Aboriginal and Half-caste Inhabitants of the State of South Australia. This Act may be cited as ‘‘ The Aborigines Act, 1911.” The Ordinance No.…

  • Wheeler traces the emergence of skin color as a predominant marker of identity in British thought and juxtaposes the Enlightenment’s scientific speculation on the biology of race with accounts in travel literature, fiction, and other documents that remain grounded in different models of human variety.

  • Households and Neighborhoods Among Free People of Color in New Orleans: A View from the Census, 1850-1860 University of New Orleans 2010-05-14 58 pages Frank Joseph Lovato A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History…

  • People Can Claim One or More Races On Federal Forms The New York Times 1997-10-30 Steven A. Holmes The Clinton Administration today adopted new rules for listing racial and ethnic makeup on Federal forms, allowing people for the first time to identify themselves as members of more than one race. The change, which could affect…

  • Born a Half-Caste Aboriginal Studies Press 1990 (revised edition) 78 pages 210 x1 50mm, b/w illus Paperback ISBN: 9780855751609 Margaret (Marnie) Kennedy (1919–1985) Marnie Kennedy was born in 1919 ‘on the bank of Coppermine Creek’. Her story takes us from her birthplace in Western Queensland, to Palm Island where she grew up ‘under the Act’,…