Month: April 2014

  • Natasha Trethewey Links History to Poetry at Convocation Fearless and Loathing: Oberlin’s Independent Student Website 2014-04-19 Zoey Memmert-Miller Natasha Trethewey, the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States spoke in Finney Chapel for the third convocation of the spring semester. She read poetry from throughout her career and spoke on the ways she understands history…

  • Seminar on Mixed Race in Fiji: The Part Indian Fijians 2014-04-05 Rolando Cocom School of Social Science The University of the South Pacific This is a research design of an explorative study to be conducted in Fiji on ‘mixed race’ persons of iTaukei and Indo-Fijian parentage. The study seeks to render an interpretive understanding of…

  • Penn symposium tackles race, science, and society Penn Current: News Ideas and conversations from the University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania 2014-04-03 Katherine Unger Baillie Is race a biological category? How does race figure into scientific research, clinical practice, and the development and use of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals? And what can we learn from historical…

  • The Mestizo Concept: A Product of European Imperialism Onkwehón:we Rising: An Indigenouse Perspectic on Third Worldism & Revolution 2013-08-29 Jack D. Forbes, Professor Emeritus of Native American Studies University of California, Davis What is the concept of Mestizaje? What are its origins? What role does it have to play in the liberation, or rather the…

  • Ancestry Informative Markers Clarify the Regional Admixture Variation in the Costa Rican Population Human Biology Volume 85, Number 5, October 2013 pages 721-740 DOI: 10.1353/hub.2013.0041 Rebeca Campos-Sánchez Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica Henriette Raventós, Associate Professor and Researcher Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica Ramiro Barrantes, Professor of Biology Universidad…

  • Bill to recognize Nansemonds passes committee Suffolk News-Herald Suffolk, Virginia 2014-04-02 A bill that would extend federal recognition to the Nansemond Indian Tribe and five others in Virginia passed the Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Wednesday. The tribes, which also include the Chickahominy, Eastern Chickahominy, Upper Mattaponi, Rappahannock and Monacan, are officially recognized by the…

  • Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject Duke University Press 2010 344 pages 51 illustrations, incl. 18 in color Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4247-2 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4266-3 Kirsten Pai Buick, Associate Professor of Art History University of New Mexico Child of the Fire is the first book-length…

  • ‘Mexican,’ ‘Hispanic,’ ‘Latin American’ top list of race write-ins on the 2010 census Pew Research Center 2014-04-04 Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research Jens Manuel Krogstad, Writer/Editor Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends Project What is your race? The U.S. Census Bureau asks this question of every U.S. household, but the menu of options offered…

  • Transpacific Mixed-Race Literatures: A Reading and Dialogue (Sawyer Seminar IX) University of Southern California, University Park Campus Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) Room 351/352 Sunday, 2014-04-06, 10:00-17:00 PDT (Local Time) How do Transpacific mixed-race authors inscribe and represent their heritage in their artistic representations? Are there common tropes or literary forms that inform these novels?…

  • Black & Jewish in New Orleans BrassyBrown.com: where women of color are first in line 2014-04-01 Marian Moore, Guest Blogger December of 2013 found me in San Diego, California this year, attending the fiftieth Biennial of the Women of Reform Judaism. Although, this was the organization’s centennial, WRJ actually began at my synagogue in 1900 as…