Month: September 2013

  • Uptown Girls Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2013-09-22 Martha A. Sandweiss, Professor of History Princeton University Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, by Carla Kaplan Illustrated. 505 pp. Harper. Time hasn’t been kind to the white women who participated in the Harlem Renaissance. As philanthropists and activists, authors…

  • Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance HarperCollins Publishers 2013-09-10 544 pages Trimsize: 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 9780060882389; ISBN10: 0060882387 eBook ISBN: 9780062199126; ISBN10: 0062199129 Carla Kaplan, Stanton W. and Elisabeth K. Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts New York City in the Jazz Age was…

  • “The United States of the United Races” w/ Dr. Greg Carter Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-09-25, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Greg Carter, Associate Professor of History University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee On Today’s episode of Mixed Race Radio we will meet Professor Greg Carter, author of The United States of the…

  • Tangled Roots: Stories and events to celebrate multi-racial families and mixed-race people in Yorkshire Tangled Roots Exhibition: Portraits of Writers from Yorkshire taken by Anthony Farrimond Seven Arts, Harrogate Road Leeds, England 2013-09-18 through 2013-10-13 Tangled Roots is an Arts Council funded project which records and celebrates the experiences of multi-racial families in Yorkshire. Tangled…

  • Germany elects its first two black MPs in breakthrough hailed as ‘historic’ The Telegraph 2013-09-23 Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent Berlin—Karamba Diaby and Charles Huber were elected for rival Left and Right political factions in Sunday’s general election to Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag. Both have Senegalese backgrounds but followed very different paths into politics… …Mr…

  • Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America Oxford University Press 2010-02-16 352 Pages 15 b/w photos 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780195379792 Paperback ISBN: 9780199794454 Sharon Davies, Professor of Law; Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties; Director of the Kirwan Institute for the…

  • The Construction of Racial Identity in Children of Mixed Parentage: Mixed Metaphors Jessica Kingsley Publishers 1996 224 pages 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in Paperback ISBN: 978-1-85302-376-7 Ilan Katz, Professor Social Policy Research Center University of New South Wales, Australia For several decades the issues of race, identity and child development have been of…

  • Creole Culture: Identity and Race in the Bayou Country Kreol Magazine October-December 2013, Issue 7 pages 42-45 Christophe Landry Louisiana is what many have come to refer to as the northern-most point of Latin America, where créolité, a Latin-based people, culture and consciousness, emerged early in the 1700s. From its earliest stages, the international melting…

  • ‘Making a Non-White America’ inside: CSUF News California State University, Fullerton 2009-08-18 Mimi Ko Cruz Allison Varzally’s Book About California’s Ethnic History Wins National Award Interracial marriages and other ties in diverse communities throughout California during the formative years of the 20th century are explored in Allison Varzally’s book, “Making a Non-White America: Californians Coloring…

  • “I always joked with my friends that I was ‘light’ not ‘white.’ Half Latino and half white. Just what does that mean? When the name Bengochea precedes me, I am always asked to explain. You don’t necessarily guess my Cuban roots by looking at me, but maybe you should look harder. As a person of…