Month: April 2013

  • Also by Mail Edition Assemblage: Begleiterscheinungen emanzipatorischer Theorie und Praxis 2013-02-20 96 pages Paperback, 142×205 mm ISBN 978-3-942885-38-6 Series: Witnessed Edition 2 Olumide Popoola Also by Mail is a modern family comedy-drama that follows the experiences of Nigerian German siblings Funke and Wale who fly to Nigeria to bury their suddenly deceased father. Their upbringing…

  • Researching ethnicity, identity and ‘mixed-race’ Social Science Research: Discussing Methods and Resources The British Library 2012-11-19 This post discusses our latest Myths and Realities event on ethnicity, identity and ‘mixed-race’ and points readers in the direction of some relevant British Library collections. On the evening of 13 November we hosted our latest Myths and Realities…

  • Engendering Racial Perceptions: An Intersectional Analysis of How Social Status Shapes Race Gender & Society Published online before print: 2013-04-12 DOI: 10.1177/0891243213480262 Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Intersectionality emphasizes that race, class, and gender distinctions are inextricably intertwined, but fully interrogating the…

  • Dimensions Variable: Multiracial Identity RUSH Arts Gallery 526 West 26th St, #311 New York, New York Phone: 212-691-9552 2013-04-04 through 2013-05-10 Opening Reception: Thursday, 2013-04-04, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) Artist Talk: Saturday, 2013-05-04, 16:00-18:00 EDT (Local Time) Firelei Báez, Yael Ben-Zion, Cecile Chong, Dennis Redmoon Darkeem, Nicky Enright, Lorra Jackson, Sara Jimenez, and Saya Woolfalk…

  • ‘Improving’ the Māori: Counting the Ideology of Intermarriage New Zealand Journal of History Volume 34, Number 1 (2000) pages 80-97 Kate Riddell Waitangi Tribunal, Wellington IN 1996 THE CENSUS gave a total of 3,681,546 New Zealanders, of whom 524,031 were self-described as Māori or of Māori descent — thus, around 14%. The 1896 census gave…

  • Family and Community History of the Winton Triangle Research at the National Archives & Beyond BlogTalk Radio 2013-04-22, 21:00-22:00 EDT (2013-04-23, 01:00-02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director Chowan Discovery Group From Family History to Community History—the Chowan Discovery Group Story with Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director of the Chowan Discovery Group (CDG).…

  • Race and ethnicity are neither scientifically reliable nor valid categories, and assignments to racial or ethnic categories are often based on observer biases, changing situational identities, and historical-political vagaries (Lee 1993; Kaplan and Bennett 2003; Williams 2007). In real life, people do not have only one fixed racial or ethnic identity which remains the same…

  • But “Whiteness” has always only ever been exactly what “White people” want it to be. What part of the world a person is from has little to no affect on whether anyone thinks s/he is actually “White”, because “White” is a social class, not a place. Adam Rothstein, “the changing face of ‘Caucasian’,” The Slate,…

  • This, That, Both, Neither: The Badging Of Biracial Identity In Young Adult Realism The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults The official research journal of the Young Adult Library Services Association 2013-04-22 Sarah Hannah Gómez, Graduate Student School of Library and Information Science Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts Editor’s Note: “This, That, Both, Neither”…

  • Becoming Mexipino: A Book Event with Rudy Guevarra Jr. California State University, Fullerton Langsdorf Hall 402 (Map) Thursday, 2013-04-25, 16:00-17:30 PDT (Local Time) Rudy Guevarra, Jr., Assistant Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Arizona State University, Tempe Becoming Mexipino is a social-historical interpretation of two ethnic…