Month: October 2012

  • Britain’s first black community in Elizabethan London BBC News Magazine 2012-07-19 Michael Wood The black trumpeter John Blanke played regularly at the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII The reign of Elizabeth I saw the beginning of Britain’s first black community. It’s a fascinating story for modern Britons, writes historian Michael Wood. Walk out…

  • The Sexualization of Difference: A Comparison of Mixed-Race and Same-Gender Marriage Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review Volume 37, Number 2, Summer 2002 pages 255-288 Josephine Ross, Associate Professor of Law; Supervisor, Criminal Justice Clinic Howard University, Washington, D.C. I. Introduction: Mixed-Race Love as a Sexual Orientation The past prohibition of mixed-race marriages in many…

  • Special Issue: Mixed Heritage Asian American Literature Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies Volume 3 (2012): Special Issue: Mixed Heritage Asian American Literature Table of Contents Introduction to Volume III—Wei Ming Dariotis The AALDP Interview Smoke and Flowers: An Interview with Olivia Boler—Wei Ming Dariotis Articles American Orientalism and Cosmopolitan Mixed Race: Early Asian American…

  • Organizing 101: A Mixed-Race Feminist in Movements for Social Justice Chapter in: Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism Seal Press April 2002 432 pages ISBN-10: 1580050670 ISBN-13: 9781580050678 Edited by: Daisy Hernandez Bushara Rehman Foreword by: Cherríe Moraga Chapter Author: Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz pages 29-39 I have vivid memories of celebrating the holidays…

  • A diverged family converges at Harvard Law Havard Law School News 2012-10-10 Audrey Kunycky A chance encounter, a discovery of kin on opposite sides of the world It wasn’t inevitable that Harvard Law School graduate students Erum Khalid Sattar and Rebecca Zaman would meet so soon, or even at all. Sattar has been at the…

  • Barbosa made Brazil’s first black Supreme Court leader BBC News 2012-10-10 The judge overseeing a major corruption trial in Brazil has been appointed president of the Supreme Court, the first black person to hold the post. Judge Joaquim Barbosa, who was born into a poor family, has been praised for his judicial independence. He will…

  • Don’t Be Too Black, Mr. President: The Racial Effect of President Obama’s Performance in the 2012 Presidential Debates Darron Smith 2012-10-05 Darron T. Smith, Assistant Professor, Physician Assistant Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas What does it mean to be Black in America? Many Americans caught a glimpse of it on national television during the first…

  • Join Mixed Roots Midwest at CMRS Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference DePaul University Chicago, Illinois 2012-11-01 through 2012-11-03 What Mixed Roots Midwest brings selected short films, a panel of filmmakers, and a live show featuring local and national talent whose material explores the Mixed experience to Chicago as part of the 2012 Critical Mixed Race…

  • The Elizabeth Warren Situation Is More Complicated Than Many Think Indian Country Today Media Network 2012-10-10 Laura Waterman Wittstock Seneca Nation A ton of ink has been spilled on the subject of the Elizabeth Warren run for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. Most of the writing on the Indian side of opinion is whether or…

  • Métis Families and Schools: The Decline and Reclamation of Métis Identities in Saskatchewan, 1885-1980 University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon March 2009 270 pages Jonathan Anuik, Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies University of Alberta A Dissertation Submitted to the College of Graduate Studies and Research in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor…