Tag: Aisha Khan

  • Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory Left Coast Press March 2007 276 pages 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 978-1-59874-278-7 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-59874-279-4 eBook ISBN: 978-1-61132-467-9 eBook Rental (180 Days) ISBN: 978-1-61132-467-9 Edited by Charles Stewart Department of Anthropology University College London Social scientists have used the term “Creolization” to evoke cultural fusion and the emergence of new…

  • Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters Stanford University Press 2009 312 pages 11 tables, 15 figures, 16 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780804759984 Paper ISBN: 9780804759991 E-book ISBN: 9780804770996 Edited by: Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor of Asian American Studies University of California, Berkeley Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism—the preference…

  • Aisha Khan Lecture – New York University Professor Aisha Khan Speaks on Multiculturalism St. Augustine News – STAN University of the West Indies July-September 2006 Page 24 Alake Pilgrim [Article copied in full for readability.  To read in original print layout version (with photographs), click here.] On the surface of things, Professor Aisha Khan, lecturer…

  • Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad Duke University Press October 2004 280 pages 9 b&w photos, 2 maps Cloth ISBN: 0-8223-3376-7, ISBN13: 978-0-8223-3376-0 Paperback ISBN: 0-8223-3388-0, ISBN13: 978-0-8223-3388-3 Aisha Khan, Associate Professor of Anthropology New York University Mixing—whether referred to as mestizaje, callaloo, hybridity, creolization, or multiculturalism—is a…