Tag: Florida International University

  • Professor shifts the lens on race through portraiture, new book FIU News Florida International University 2014-01-02 Evelyn Perez What is blackness? What does it mean to be black? Is blackness a matter of biology or consciousness? Who and what determine who is black and who is not? A new book by Yaba Blay, co-director of…

  • Navigating Racial Boundaries: The One-Drop Rule and Mixed-Race Jamaicans in South Florida Florida International University 2010 343 pages Sharon E. Placide A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Comparitive Sociology Like many West Indians, mixed-race Jamaican immigrants enter the United States with fluid notions about…