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Month: October 2012

  • Gilberto Freyre: Social Theory in the Tropics

    Gilberto Freyre: Social Theory in the Tropics Peter Lang 2008 261 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-906165-09-3 Softcover ISBN: 978-1-906165-04-8 Peter Burke University of Cambridge Maria Lúcia G. Pallares-Burke Centre for Latin American Studies University of Cambridge Gilberto Freyre was arguably the most famous intellectual of twentieth-century Latin America. He was active as a sociologist, a historian,…

  • Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India: Trials of an Interracial Family

    Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India: Trials of an Interracial Family Cambridge University Press November 2011 286 pages 6 b/w illus. 3 maps 228 x 152 mm; 0.51kg Hardback ISBN: 9781107012615 Adobe eBook ISBN: 9781139181242 Mobipocket eBook: ISBN:9781139184861 Chandra Mallampalli, Associate Professor of History Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California How did British rule in…

  • Multiracial youths show similar vulnerability to peer pressure as whites

    Multiracial youths show similar vulnerability to peer pressure as whites University of Washington News 2012-07-10 Molly McElroy Researchers who studied a large sample of middle- and high-school students in Washington state found that mixed-race adolescents are more similar to their white counterparts than previously believed.   Experts have thought that multiracial adolescents, the fastest growing…

  • The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives

    The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives Beacon Press 2012-08-21 288 pages 6″ x 9″ Cloth ISBN: 978-080706912-7 Devon W. Carbado, Professor of Law and African American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Donald Weise, Independent Scholar in African American history The first book about the runaway slave phenomenon written by fugitive slaves themselves.…

  • Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895

    Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895 University of Pennsylvania Press 2005 288 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8122-3867-9 Jill Lane, Associate Professor of  Theater and Performance Studies New York University Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895 offers a critical history of the relation between racial impersonation, national sentiment, and the emergence of an anticolonial public sphere in nineteenth-century Cuba. Through…

  • Lecture: Unbearable Blackness

    Lecture: Unbearable Blackness Terror and the Inhuman (2012-10-25 through 2012-10-27) Brown University Sidney Frank Hall, Room 220 185 Meeting St. 2012-10-25, 18:30 EDT (Local Time) Jared Sexton, Associate Professor, African American Studies; Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine The Department of Modern Culture and Media presents a lecture by Jared Sexton…

  • I think it would be wise for people who are biracial and multiracial to never forget that this is a system of formal historical and institutional white supremacy.

    I think it would be wise for people who are biracial and multiracial to never forget that this is a system of formal historical and institutional white supremacy. And I’m afraid sometimes, there are a lot incentives that the culture puts out there to biracial and multiracial people to forget that… …Because they’re not quite…

  • What explains the rise of Intermarriage?

    What explains the rise of Intermarriage? The US had a big immigration reform in 1965, which led to a sharp rise in immigration from Asia and Latin America. As the US population became more racially diverse, there was more opportunity for Americans to meet (and fall in love with) people from other races. Immigrant destinations…

  • To succeed, the intermarriage of the white race with mixed stock must be made impossible.

    Unless radical measures are used to prevent it, Virginia and other parts of the Nation must surely in time go the way of all other countries in which people of two or more races have lived in close contact. With the exception of the Hebrew race, complete intermixture or amalgamation has been the inevitable result.…

  • Students more likely to identify as multiracial

    Students more likely to identify as multiracial The Stanford Daily: Breaking News from the Farm Since 1892 Stanford University 2012-10-24 Taylor Chambers Erika Roach ’13 identifies herself as “Blasian,” while Marcus Montanez-Leaks ’13 says he’s “Blexican.” These terms and others used to describe mixed race individuals are becoming more common in conversation and student groups…