Month: March 2013

  • I have never had the comfort zone of a given racial identity. My mother is a Bostonian white woman of WASP heritage. My father is a Louisiana black man of mixed African and Mexican heritage. Unlike people who are automatically classified as black or white, I have always been up for debate. I am forever having…

  • “Interracial” Sex and Racial Democracy in Brazil: Twin Concepts? American Anthropologist Volume 101, Issue 3 (September 1999) pages 563–578 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1999.101.3.563 Donna Goldstein, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Colorado, Boulder Racial democracy is maintained in Brazil through both scholarly and popular discourses that consider “interracial” sex as proof of Brazil’s lack of a racial…

  • Mixed Race Across the Pacific University of Southern California Freshman Seminars Spring 2013 Duncan Williams, Associate Professor of Religion In an era when a mixed-race President of the United States proudly proclaims himself as the first Pacific President of America, how might we rethink the study of race in a global, rather than merely a…

  • James Douglas: Father of British Columbia Dundurn Press October 2009 240 pages 5.5 in x 8.5 in Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55488-409-4 eBook ISBN: 978-1-77070-564-7 Julia H. Ferguson James Douglas’s story is one of high adventure in pre-Confederation Canada. It weaves through the heart of Canadian and Pacific Northwest history when British Columbia was a wild land,…

  • Love in black and white Princeton Alumni Weekly 2009-04-22 Lawrence Otis Graham ’83 Martha Sandweiss examines racial passing in America Clarence King, a celebrated explorer, geologist, and surveyor in 19th-century America, chose to set that identity aside — and live as a working-class black man during a time of harsh racial segregation in the United…

  • Woman finds out famous relative was black The Toronto Star 2011-02-23 Megan Ogilvie, Health Reporter Growing up in Georgetown, Catherine Slaney knew her great-grandfather had an important and interesting past. She knew he was a respected doctor and a surgeon in the American Civil War. She knew he was a friend of Abraham Lincoln and…

  • Family Secrets: Crossing the Colour Line Dundurn Publishing February 2003 264 pages 6 x 9 in Paperback ISBN: 978-1-89621-982-0 eBook (PDF) ISBN: 978-1-55488-161-1 eBook (EPUB) ISBN: 978-1-45971-478-6 Catherine Slaney Foreword by: Daniel G. Hill, III (1923-2003) Catherine Slaney grew into womanhood unaware of her celebrated Black ancestors. An unanticipated meeting was to change her life.…

  • Being Mixed Race: What are the identity politics of the million-strong ‘Jessica Ennis generation’? Women of the World Festival Southbank Centre 2013-03-06 through 2013-03-10 Sunday, 2013-03-10, 12:00-13:00Z Level 5 Function Room Royal Festival Hall Panelists: Emma Dabiri, Teaching Fellow Africa Department, School of African and Oriental Studies, London Visual Sociology Ph.D. Researcher, Goldsmiths University of…

  • History 101.020: Betwixt and Between in the United States: Boundaries and the People who Defy Them University of California, Berkeley Spring 2013 MacKenzie Moore, Visiting Lecturer This 101 seminar is geared toward any student who wants to study the boundaries among and between people, nations, or states, broadly defined. It is also perfect for those…

  • 346-Comparative Ethnic Literatures (Reg. No. 22253) University of Buffalo, The State University of New York Spring 2013 Susan Muchshima Moynihan, Assistant Professor of English This course brings together Asian American and African American texts to destabilize our understandings of race; to situate racial formations in political and historical moments marked by the intersections of race,…