Month: September 2012

  • In this new symphonic collection, “Travel Light Travel Dark,” Agard casts his unique spin on the intermingling strands of British history, and leads us into metaphysical and political waters.

  • Poetry: Three Treasures by Hannah Lowe Freeword: a global meeting place for literature, argument and free thinking 2012-06-12 Hannah Lowe A panelist at ‘2 Nations’, our recent event exploring national identity, Hannah Lowe is a poet of Chinese, Jamaican and English heritage. In this poem she performed for the audience that night, she explores how…

  • The writer of “Miscegenation” considers it a most providential event, and as one significant of the type-man or miscegens of the future, that the statue on the dome of the Capitol at Washington is of a “bronze tint.” But it is possible that he mistakes its significance. As has been shown in these pages, the…

  • The present writer proposes to profit by the suggestion of the author of of “Miscegenation” and coin another word, long needed.  It is subgenation, from sub, lower, and generatus and genus, a race born or created lower than another; i.e., the natural or normal relation of an inferior to a superior race.

  • Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity: Celtic Soul Brothers Routledge 2012-07-11 234 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-65367-1 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-80189-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-203-85989-6 Lauren Onkey, Vice President of Education and Public Programs Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Cleveland, Ohio Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity analyzes the long history of imagined and real relationships between…

  • The colour of money in multiracial Jamaica The Jamaica Gleaner Jamaica, West Indies 2012-09-23 Carolyn Cooper, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica On a flight from Miami several years ago, I sat next to a little girl who seemed to be about 10 or so years of age.…

  • Prestigious grant award for research on President Obama Edge Hill University Ormskirk, Lancashire, United Kingdom News 2010-06-04 Edge Hill University and key partners have been awarded a prestigious grant to develop a research network on The Presidency of Barack Obama. The Arts and Humanities Research Council has given an award of £31,320 to the institution…

  • The Victorian Reinvention of Race: New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences Routledge 2010-06-23 248 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-65278-0 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-88125-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-203-84498-4 Edward Beasley, Associate Professor of History San Diego State University In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The ‘races’ familiar to…

  • Racing Romance: Love, Power, and Desire Among Asian American/ White Couples Rutgers University Press June 2009 208 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4533-2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4532-5 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-4852-4 Kumiko Nemoto, Associate Professor of Sociology Western Kentucky University Despite being far from the norm, interracial relationships are more popular than ever. Racing Romance…

  • In the United States miscegenation is not merely a subject of literature and popular culture. It is in many ways the foundation of contemporary imaginary community. “The Romance of Race” examines the role of minority women writers and reformers in the creation of our modern American multiculturalism.