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  • Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America

    Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America Princeton University Press 2005 288 pages 6 x 9, 17 halftones, 1 line illustration, 2 maps ISBN13: 978-0-691-13379-9 Heide Fehrenbach, Presidential Research Professor of History Northern Illinois University When American victors entered Germany in the spring of 1945, they came armed not only with…

  • Positioning American Japanese in the Context of Japanese and Okinawan Nationalism and Ethnicity

    Positioning American Japanese in the Context of Japanese and Okinawan Nationalism and Ethnicity Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies Volume II (October 2009) 18 pages Stephanie Otani Stanford University have the right… Not to justify my existence in this world. Not to keep the races separate within me. Not to be responsible for people’s discomfort…

  • Addressing Issues of Biracial Asian Americans

    Addressing Issues of Biracial Asian Americans Reflections on Shattered Windows: Promises and Prospects for Asian American Studies Washington State University Press 1988 Chapter 15, pages 111-116 Edited by: G. Y. Okihiro, S. Hune, A. A. Hansen, and J. M. Liu Stephen L. Murphy-Shigematsu Revising the Asian American Studies curriculum One of the more dramatic changes…

  • Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture & History, 1890-2000

    Since the Middle Ages, Africans have lived in Germany as slaves and scholars, guest workers and refugees.

  • May Ayim: A Woman in the Margin of German Society

    May Ayim: A Woman in the Margin of German Society The Florida State University College of Arts and Scienes Spring Semester, 2005 76 pages Margaret MacCarroll, Professor of Modern Languages: German Division Florida State University A thesis submitted to the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree…

  • Entangling Alliances: Foreign War Brides and American Soldiers in the Twentieth Century

    Entangling Alliances: Foreign War Brides and American Soldiers in the Twentieth Century New York University Press 2010-03-22 320 pages, 8 illustrations ISBN: 9780814797174 Susan Zeiger Throughout the twentieth century, American male soldiers returned home from wars with foreign-born wives in tow, often from allied but at times from enemy nations, resulting in a new, official…

  • A Letter to My Father: Growing up Filipina and American

    A Letter to My Father: Growing up Filipina and American University of Oklahoma Press 2008 184 pages 5.5″ x 8.5″ x 0″ 8 b&w illustrations, 2 maps Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8061-3909-8 Helen Madamba Mossman Going from the jungles of the wartime Philippines to the schoolyards of northwestern Oklahoma is no easy transition. For one twelve-year-old girl,…

  • Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women’s Pan-Pacific

    Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women’s Pan-Pacific University of Hawai’i Press July 2009 304 pages 15 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8248-3342-8 Fiona Paisley, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia Perspectives on the Global Past Since its inception in 1928, the Pan-Pacific Women’s Association (PPWA) has witnessed…

  • Brown Babies in Britain

    Brown Babies in Britain Radcliffe Quarterly Winter 2007 Dean’s Lecture Series Julia Hanna When white British women met black servicemen during World War II, mixed-race children sometimes resulted from their relationships. In her November 2 [2007] Dean’s Lecture, Hazel V. Carby addressed issues of race and class by drawing on scholarship and personal experience as…

  • Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America

    Renee Romano explains how and why such marriages have gained acceptance, and what this tells us about race relations in contemporary America.