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Month: July 2013

  • Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru

    Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru University Press of Florida 2011-04-17 246 pages 6×9 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3574-1 Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-4449-1 Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Yo Soy Negro is the first book in English—in fact, the first book in any language in more than two decades—to address…

  • An Earth-Colored Sea: ‘Race’, Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World

    An Earth-Colored Sea: ‘Race’, Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World Berghahn Books 2003 176 pages index Hardback ISBN: 978-1-57181-607-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-57181-608-5 Miguel Vale de Almeida,  Professor of Anthropology Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE), Lisbon Although the post-colonial situation has attracted considerable interest over recent years,…

  • The Colours of the Empire: Racialized Representations during Portuguese Colonialism

    This study provides insight into the relationship between the racist formulations disseminated in Portugal and the racist theories produced from the eighteenth century onward in Europe and beyond.

  • Obama Made in Kenya: Appropriating the American Dream in Kogelo

    Obama Made in Kenya: Appropriating the American Dream in Kogelo Africa Today Volume 59, Number 4, Summer 2013 pages 68-90 DOI: 10.1353/at.2013.0027 Karin van Bemmel Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium In November 2008, millions of Kenyan citizens expressed their happiness about the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States. Four years later, people…

  • Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses about ‘Jews’ in the Twenty-First Century

    Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses about ‘Jews’ in the Twenty-First Century Berghahn Books May 2013 398 pages bibliog., index Hardback ISBN: 978-0-85745-892-6 eBook ISBN: 978-0-85745-893-3 Edited by: Efraim Sicher, Professor of Comparative and English Literature Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Advances in genetics are renewing controversies over inherited characteristics, and the discourse around science and…

  • Black And Jewish And Read All Over

    Black And Jewish And Read All Over The Jewish Week 2013-07-16 Julie Wiener She may currently live on the Upper East Side, but Simone Weichselbaum, 31, remains a Brooklyn girl. Raised in Williamsburg and Crown Heights by her Ashkenazi Jewish dad (who freelances for The Jewish Week) and Jamaican mom, Weichselbaum, a Park East Day…

  • Henry Samuel, Frankfort Barber and Free Man of Color

    Henry Samuel, Frankfort Barber and Free Man of Color Random Thoughts on History: My musings on American, African American, Southern, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Public History topics and books 2013-03-19 Tim Talbott Frankfort, Kentucky Recently reading Knights of the Razor: Black Barbers in Slavery and Freedom got me to wondering if Frankfort had any black…

  • Displaced looks: The lived experience of beauty and racism

    Displaced looks: The lived experience of beauty and racism Feminist Theory Volume 14, Number 2, August 2013   pages 137-151 DOI: 10.1177/1464700113483241 Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa, Lecturer in Sociology Newcastle University  With a focus on appearance and racialised perceptions of skin colour, this paper discusses the differences between being and feeling acceptable, pretty or ugly and…

  • Participatory diagramming in social work research: Utilizing visual timelines to interpret the complexities of the lived multiracial experience

    Participatory diagramming in social work research: Utilizing visual timelines to interpret the complexities of the lived multiracial experience Qualitative Social Work Volume 12, Number 4 (July 2013) pages 414-432 DOI: 10.1177/1473325011435258 Kelly F. Jackson, Assistant Professor of Social Work Arizona State University The purpose of this article is to present an illustrative example of the…

  • Missing faces

    Missing faces The Guardian 2007-03-23 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University As the United Kingdom marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade tomorrow, Jackie Kay challenges fellow Scots to acknowledge their forebears’ part in this shameful history and reflects on the ordeal suffered by her ancestors We’re perhaps over-fond…