Day: September 1, 2013

  • Return to the rainforest: A son’s search for his Amazonian mother BBC News Magazine 2013-08-28 William Kremer BBC World Service David Good’s parents come from different countries – hardly unusual in the US where he was raised. But the 25-year-old’s family is far from ordinary – while his father is American, his mother is a…

  • Too Close for Comfort: Master and Slave Relations in the Colonial Cape The World Is Robert: An assortment of posts related to an unquenchable thirst for knowledge 2013-04-03 Robert Figueroa The effects of propinquity on the nature and development of slavery in colonial Cape society were profound. Unlike the large plantations that evolved in parts…

  • A provocative exploration of how Western standards of beauty are influencing cultures across the globe and impacting personal, professional, romantic and familial relationships.

  • Mapping “Race”: Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research Rutgers University Press 2013-08-12 256 pages 6 figures, 8 tables, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-6136-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-6137-0 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8135-6138-7 Edited by: Laura E. Gómez, Professor of Law, Sociology, and Chicano Studies University of California, Los Angeles Nancy López, Associate Professor of Sociology University of…

  • Thomas Cole: Reading the Paintings from The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper Society Website Oneonta College, State University of New York July 2013 Roberta Gray Katz DePaul University Presented at the 18th Cooper Seminar, James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art at the State University of New York College at Oneonta, July,…