Month: March 2013

  • Bengali Harlem: Author documents a lost history of immigration in America In America: You define America. What defines you? Cable News Network (CNN) 2013-02-15 Editor’s note: CNN’s Moni Basu, a Bengali immigrant, was born in Kolkata, India. Moni Basu (CNN) – In the next few weeks, Fatima Shaik, an African-American, Christian woman, will travel “home”…

  • It Takes a Village: Building Support Structures for Mixed Race Students in Higher Education National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) 26th Annual National Conference New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-05-28 through 2013-06-01 2013-05-31, 15:15-17:15 CST (Local Time) Lawrence-Minh Davis, Founding Co-Director The Asian American Literary Review, Inc. Jennifer Hayashida, Professor and Director of Asian American Studies…

  • Multiracial Identity and Intersectionality: New Ways of Understanding Racial Identity in Ourselves and Our Students National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) 26th Annual National Conference New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-05-28 through 2013-06-01 2013-05-30, 13:30-15:30 CST (Local Time) Meg Chang, Faculty California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe, Consultant, Organizational Development and…

  • Spaniards, ‘pardos’, and the missing mestizos: identities and racial categories in the early Hispanic Caribbean New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids Volume 71, Numbers 1&2 (1997) pages 5-19 Stuart B. Schwartz, George Burton Adams Professor of History Yale University Traces the history of the mestizos, the descendants of Spanish-Indian contacts during the early…

  • Anti-Miscegenation Laws in the United States Duke Bar Journal (Duke Law Journal) Volume 1, Issue 1 (1951) pages 26-41 James R. Browning (1918-2012) The word “miscegenation” is not included in the everyday vocabulary of a large part of our citizenry, but there are nonetheless laws in twenty-nine states prohibiting miscegenation. Etymologically, the term means intermarriage…