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Month: September 2013

  • Multiple Identities: Migrants, Ethnicity, and Membership

    Multiple Identities: Migrants, Ethnicity, and Membership Indiana University Press 2013-03-22 344 pages 3 b&w illus 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-253-00804-6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-253-00807-7 eBook ISBN: 978-0-253-00811-4 Edited by: Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara In recent years, Europeans have engaged in sharp debates about migrants and minority groups as social…

  • Black Coral: A Daughter’s Apology To Her Asian Island Mother

    Black Coral: A Daughter’s Apology To Her Asian Island Mother Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2013-09-05, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2013-09-06, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host C. D. Holmes-Miller, Clergywoman, Theologian, Designer, Author Mother with Clergywoman, Theologian, Communications Designer and author, The Rt. Reverend Dr. Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller aka Bishop Miller, M.S.,…

  • The Forgotten People: Cane River’s Creoles of Color (revised edition)

    The Forgotten People: Cane River’s Creoles of Color (revised edition) Louisiana State University Press November 2013 (First published in 1977) 480 pages 6.00 x 9.00 inches 25 halftones, 3 maps, 3 charts Paperback ISBN: 9780807137130 Gary B. Mills (1944–2002), Professor of History University of Alabama Revised by: Elizabeth Shown Mills Foreword by: H. Sophie Burton…

  • Pauline Johnson: Selected Poetry and Prose

    Pauline Johnson: Selected Poetry and Prose Dundurn Press June 2013 240 pages 5.5 in x 8.5 in Paperback ISBN: 978-1-45970-426-8 eBook ISBN: 978-1-45970-428-2 Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) Compiled and Introduced by: Michael Gnarowski Pauline Johnson was an unusual and unique presence on the literary scene during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Part Mohawk and…

  • Master of None: How a Hong Kong high-flyer overcame the devastating experience of imprisonment

    Master of None: How a Hong Kong high-flyer overcame the devastating experience of imprisonment Blacksmith Books October 2011 312 pages colour photo section Size: 14.6 x 21.6 cm Hardback ISBN: ISBN: 978-988-19002-7-2 John Hung Does a man need a stint in jail to complete his life experiences? From Stanley Prison, corporate high-flyer John T. Hung…

  • The New New Thing, Again

    The New New Thing, Again MPG: unofficial thoughts, whimsical critiques, and occasional cultural commentary 2013-02-08 Matthew Pratt Guterl, Professor of Africana studies and American studies Brown University Someone referred to mixed race children as particularly “beautiful” the other day, and it made me think of this: In 1993, the cover of Time magazine featured a…

  • Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “Race in Motion: Traversing the Transnational Emotionscape of White Beauty in Indonesia”

    Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “Race in Motion: Traversing the Transnational Emotionscape of White Beauty in Indonesia” Seminar Series: Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-10-31, 10:30 PDT (Local Time) L. Ayu Saraswati, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies University of Hawai‘i,…

  • Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “The Return of Pseudoscientific Racism? DNA Ancestry Testing, Race, and the New Eugenics Movement”

    Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “The Return of Pseudoscientific Racism? DNA Ancestry Testing, Race, and the New Eugenics Movement” Seminar Series: Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-10-17, 10:30 PDT (Local Time) Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa…

  • The Color of Color-Blindness: Whites’ Race Talk in ‘Post-Racial’ America

    The Color of Color-Blindness: Whites’ Race Talk in ‘Post-Racial’ America Reitman/DeGrange Memorial Lecture Series Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire Haldeman 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall) Thursday, 2013-09-26, 16:00-17:30 EDT (Local Time) Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University Professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Sociology Deptartment Chair at Duke University, will deconstruct whites’ post-racial or color-blind talk & suggest…

  • Race and Narrative in Italian Women’s Writing Since Unification

    Race and Narrative in Italian Women’s Writing Since Unification Fairleigh Dickinson University Press July 2013 127 pages ISBN: 9781611475999 Melissa Coburn, Assistant Professor of Italian and Italian Program Director Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Race and Narrative in Italian Women’s Writing Since Unification explores racist ideas and critiques of racism in four long narratives…