Month: November 2012

  • Brazil’s Affirmative-Action Quotas: Progress? The Chronicle of Higher Education 2012-11-05 Ibram H. Rogers, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies State University of New York, Albany Brazil recently passed what was probably the most sweeping affirmative-action law in the modern history of higher education. While the livelihood of affirmative action in the United States is in the…

  • Quilombismo and the Afro-Brazilian Quest for Citizenship Journal of Black Studies Volume 43, Number 8 (November 2012) pages 847-871 DOI: 10.1177/0021934712461794 Niyi Afolabi, Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin Between the radicalism of Black Brazilian movements of the 1980s, an aftermath of the negation and rejection of the myth of…

  • An interdisciplinary study on the myth of racial democracy in Brazil through the prism of producers of Afro-Brazilian culture.

  • Fanshen’s Farewell to Mixed Chicks Chat Fanshen Cox 2012-11-05 In June 2012 we recorded the final episode of Mixed Chicks Chat. Creating and carrying out the podcast each week for the past five years provided me with a consistent, safe, nurturing space in which to share and learn more about the Mixed experience.  I have…

  • Being Amerasian in South Korea: Purebloodness, Multiculturalism, and Living Alongside the U.S. Military Empire The Ohio State University June 2012 96 pages Yuri W. Doolan Honors Research Thesis Presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for graduation with Honors Research Distinction in History in the undergraduate colleges of The Ohio State University This thesis focuses…

  • Aliens Admitted Here! Evening Post Wellington, New Zealand Volume LVI, Issue 96 1898-10-20 Page 4 Source: Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa The House cannot be congratulated on the treatment it meted out last night to the Immigration Restriction Bill, and the Premier showed a lamentable lack of power…

  • Fathers of Conscience with Bernie D. Jones Research at the National Archives & Beyond Blogtalk Radio 2012-11-08, 21:00 EST (2012-11-09, 02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Co-Host Natonne Elaine Kemp, Co-Host Bernie D. Jones, Associate Professor of Law Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South Bernice Bennett and Natonne Elaine Kemp welcome…

  • Figuring Abjection: The Slave Mother in the Early Creole Novel French Studies Volume 67, Issue 1, January 2013 pages 61-75 DOI: 10.1093/fs/kns232 Maeve McCusker School of Modern Languages Queen’s University Belfast While twentieth-century Caribbean literature in French has generated a substantial body of criticism, earlier writings have largely been neglected. This article begins by contextualizing…

  • Regular screening mammography before the diagnosis of breast cancer reduces black:white breast cancer differences and modifies negative biological prognostic factors Breast Cancer Research and Treatment Volume 135, Number 2 (2012) pages 549-553 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-012-2193-3 Paula Grabler Feinberg College of Medicine Northwestern University Danielle Dupuy Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Taskforce, Chicago, Illinois Jennifer Rai University of…

  • Michele Elam: The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics and Aesthetics in the New Millennium [Johnson Review] New Books in African American Studies: Discussions with Scholars of African Americans about Their New Books 2012-10-31 Sherry Johnson, Assistant Professor of English Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan “What are you?” The question can often comes out…