Month: October 2012

  • Being Anglo-Indian: Practices and Stories from Calcutta Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand 2005 263 pages Robyn Andrews, Lecturer, Social Anthropology Programme Massey University A thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Social Anthropology at Massey University This thesis is an ethnography of Anglo-Indians in Calcutta. All…

  • A Vanishing Race Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 4, Number 1 (June, 1926) pages 100-115 G. A. Crossett, Editor Caddo Herald One of the largest and most intelligent tribes of original American Indians in the United States today is the Choctaws, who inhabit the southeastern portion of Oklahoma. The Choctaws formerly occupied the central and northern…

  • Representations of colonial intimacy in Anglo-Indian narratives Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 2009 272 pages Nandini Sengupta This dissertation examines nineteenth-century manifestations of colonial intimacy in a range of texts produced by Anglo-Indians, capturing their colonial experience from the 1830s to the 1880s. Through these texts, I examine the ideological implications of interracial intimacy in…

  • The Mayes Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 15, Number 1 (March, 1937) pages 56-65 John Bartlett Meserve The saga of the Cherokees, from the dawn of their arrival in the old Indian Territory down to the present, is emphatically one of constant change in their social, economic, and political lives. The influence of the adventurous white…

  • Ai, a Steadfast Poetic Channel of Hard Lives, Dies at 62 The New York Times 2010-03-27 Margalit Fox The prominent American poet Ai, whose work — known for its raw power, jagged edges and unflinching examination of violence and despair — stood as a damning indictment of American society, died on March 20 in Stillwater,…

  • Let’s Not Be Boxed in by Color / Other Americans Help Break Down Racial Barriers “Let’s Not Be Boxed in by Color” The Washington Post, Outlook 1997-06-08 pages C3 “Other Americans Help Break Down Racial Barriers” International Herald Tribune 1997-06-10 page 9 Amitai Etzioni, University Professor and Professor of International Affairs; Director, Institute for Communitarian…

  • Literature and Racial Ambiguity Rodopi 2002 320 pages 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches Hardback ISBN: 978-90-420-1428-2 / 90-420-1428-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-90-420-1418-3 / 90-420-1418-0 Edited by: Teresa Hubel, Associate Professor of English Huron University College in London, Ontario Neil Brooks, Associate Professor of English Huron University College at Western University, London, Ontario Contents Neil Brooks…

  • Classifying racial and ethnic group data in the United States: the politics of negotiation and accommodation Journal of Government Information Volume 27, Issue 2 (March-April 2000) pages 129–156 DOI: 10.1016/S1352-0237(00)00131-3 Alice Robbin, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science Indiana University, Bloomington “Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity,” formerly…

  • Black and White Both Cast Shadows: Unconventional Permutations of Racial Passing in African American and American Literature University of Arizona 2012 220 pages Derek Adams A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In the Graduate College THE UNIVERSITY…

  • Poet Pauline Johnson enthralled Victorian theatregoers with a stereotype-smashing spin on her Mohawk-English heritage. Along the way, she became Canada’s first postmodern celebrity