Month: September 2014

  • Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India: Trials of an Interracial Family by Chandra Mallampalli (review) [Epstein] Victorian Studies Volume 56, Number 3, Spring 2014 pages 519-520 DOI: 10.1353/vic.2014.0064 James Epstein, Distinguished Professor of History Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Mallampalli, Chandra, Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India: Trials of an Interracial Family (Cambridge, New…

  • Reading Rivalry, Race, and the Rise of a Southern Middle Class in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory Volume 70, Number 3, Autumn 2014 pages 157-184 DOI: 10.1353/arq.2014.0018 Rachel A. Wise, Postdoctoral Fellow Department of English University of Texas, Austin This essay argues that…

  • Exploring Identity: The Asian American Experience at Harvard The Harvard Crimson: The University Daily since 1873 Harvard University 2014-09-25 Maia R. Silber, Crimson Staff Writer While last year’s “I, Too, Am Harvard” focused on identity and belongingness on a multiracial campus, Harvard’s AAPI students will also examine these concepts within the context of their own…

  • Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality by Michael J. Montoya (review) [Wentzell] The Americas Volume 71, Number 1, July 2014 pages 179-181 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2014.0105 Emily Wentzell, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Iowa Montoya, Michael J., Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality (Berkeley: University of…

  • Clotel or, The President’s Daughter Penguin Press 2003-12-30 (First published in December 1853) 320 Pages Paperback ISBN: 9780142437728 ePub ISBN: 9781440626616 William Wells Brown (1814–1884) Introduction by: M. Giulia Fabi, Associate professor of American literature University of Ferrara, Italy First published in December 1853, Clotel was written amid then unconfirmed rumors that Thomas Jefferson had…

  • Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality University of California Press March 2011 282 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520267305 Paperback ISBN: 9780520267312 Michael J. Montoya, Professor of Anthropology, Chicano/Latino Studies & Public Health University of California, Irvine This innovative ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2…

  • Notaries of Color in Colonial Panama: Limpieza de Sangre, Legislation, and Imperial Practices in the Administration of the Spanish Empire The Americas Volume 71, Number 1, July 2014 pages 37-69 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2014.0082 Silvia Espelt-Bombín University of St Andrews, United Kingdom On July 20, 1740, King Philip V of Spain was given paperwork regarding a dispute…

  • Preview: Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni questions race and identity in “One Drop of Love” ArtsATL: Atlanta’s source for arts news and reviews 2014-09-21 Kelundra Smith Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni As an MFA candidate in the Television, Film and Theatre program at California State University, Los Angeles, Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni originally set out to make a documentary about…

  • Hapa-palooza 2014 celebrates three giants of mixed-heritage Vancouver Observer Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2014-09-28 Jordan Yerman An artist, a scientist, and a poet: Hapa-palooza honours Kip Fulbeck, Ann Makosinski, and Fred Wah. “What am I? I’m what’s on your spoon when you pull it out of the melting pot!!” So writes a subject in California-based…

  • William Wells Brown: A Reader University of Georgia Press 2008-12-15 488 pages 6 b&w photos Trim size: 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-3223-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-3224-6 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-3634-3 William Wells Brown (1814–1884) Edited by: Ezra Greenspan, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of English Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas Born into slavery in…