Month: September 2012

  • Playing for Malaya: A Eurasian Family and the Pacific War University of Hawai‘i Press (Distributed for the National University of Singapore Press) 2011 208 pages Paper ISBN: 978-9971-69-573-6 Rebecca Kenneison Reggie, according to his niece Wendy, ‘only told what Reggie wanted you to know.’ Reggie was my father. He had honed the technique of talking…

  • That’s How It Goes: Autobiography Of A Singapore Eurasian Select Books 2008 235 pages Paperback ISBN: 9789814022392 F. A. C. “Jock” Oehlers These memoirs by a member of one of Singapore’s leading Eurasian families offers many sidelights onto Singapore’s life in the mid-20th century. The author, then a dental student, tells of the hardships of…

  • The Social World of Batavia: Europeans and Eurasians in Colonial Indonesia (Second Edition) University of Wisconsin Press April 2009 (First Published in 1983) 312 pages 6 x 9   14 b/w illustrations Jean Gelman Taylor, Associate Professor of History University of New South Wales In the seventeenth century, the Dutch established a trading base at the…

  • Of Susie Guillory Phipps and Chief Redbone: The Mutability of Race Newhouse News Service 1992-07-09 Jonathan Tilove Black is black and white is white, but what about Susie Guillory Phipps? Phipps looks white. She always thought she was white. So did her first and second husbands. Until, at the age of 43, she discovered she…

  • “I’m not about to have my children check more than one box only to be relegated back to the black category,” said [Susan] Graham [of Project RACE]… She left the race question blank. Jonathan Tilove, “Will new age of mixed-race identities loosen the hold of race or tie it up in tighter knots?” Newhouse News…

  • Obama’s America: A Transformative Vision of Our National Identity Potomac Books July 2012 270 pages 6″ x 9″; Notes; Bibliography; Index Clothbound ISBN: 978-1-61234-472-0 Ian Reifowitz, Associate Professor of History Empire State College of the State University of New York What it means to be an American today Our national identity is defined by what…

  • Consider this paragraph from a New York Times article about the increase in multiracial people in the latest 2010 U.S. Census: “In North Carolina, the mixed-race population doubled. In Georgia, it expanded by more than 80 percent, and by nearly as much in Kentucky and Tennessee. In Indiana, Iowa and South Dakota, the multiracial population…

  • 2010 Census Shows Multiple-Race Population Grew Faster Than Single-Race Population United States Census Bureau New Releases News Release: CB12-182 2012-09-27 The 2010 Census showed that people who reported multiple races grew by a larger percentage than those reporting a single race. According to the 2010 Census brief The Two or More Races Population: 2010, the…

  • Mulatto Bend: Free People of Color in Rural Louisiana, 1763-1865 Tulane University 2012-04-02 307 pages Publication Number: AAT 3519906 ISBN: 9781267512932 Johanna Lee Davis Smith A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED ON THE SECOND DAY OF APRIL 2012 TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS OF TULANE UNIVERSITY…

  • The Cayton Legacy: An African American Family Washington State University Press 2002 272 pages 6″ x 9″ Photographs, notes, bibliography, index Paperback ISBN: 978-0-87422-251-7 Richard S. Hobbs The evolution of a remarkable African American family—the Caytons—is a brilliantly told tale set primarily in Seattle and Chicago. The Caytons lived a true American saga, illuminating the…