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  • Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses: Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars

    In “Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses,” Betsy Erkkilä argues that it is through the historical and psychological dramas of blood as a marker of violence, or race, or sex, or kinship that Americans have struggled over the meanings of democracy, citizenship, culture, national belonging, and the idea of America itself as it was constituted and…

  • Reconstructing Hybridity: Post-Colonial Studies in Transition

    Reconstructing Hybridity: Post-Colonial Studies in Transition Rodopi 2007 330 pages Hardback: 978-90-420-2141-9 / 90-420-2141-1 Edited by: Joel Kuortti, Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Culture University of Jyväskylä, Finland Jopi Nyman, Acting Professor of English University of Joensuu, Finland This interdisciplinary collection of critical articles seeks to reassess the concept of hybridity and its relevance to post-colonial…

  • Patrolling Borders: Hybrids, Hierarchies and the Challenge of Mestizaje

    Patrolling Borders: Hybrids, Hierarchies and the Challenge of Mestizaje Political Research Quarterly Vol. 57, No. 4 pages 597-607 (2004) DOI: 10.1177/106591290405700408 Cristina Beltran, Associate Professor of Political Science Haverford College “Hybridity” has become a popular concept among scholars of critical race theory and identity, particularly those studying Chicano identity. Some scholars claim that hybridity—premised on…

  • Hybridity, So What? The Anti-Hybridity Backlash and the Riddles of Recognition

    Hybridity, So What? The Anti-Hybridity Backlash and the Riddles of Recognition Theory, Culture & Society Volume 18, Numbers 2-3 (June 2001) pages 219-245 DOI: 10.1177/026327640101800211 Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Take just about any exercise in social mapping and it is the hybrids, those that…

  • Are Mestizos Hybrids? The Conceptual Politics of Andean Identities

    Are Mestizos Hybrids? The Conceptual Politics of Andean Identities Journal of Latin American Studies Volume 37, Issue 02 May 2005 pp 259-284 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X05009004 Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis Through a genealogical analysis of the terms mestizo and mestizaje, this article reveals that these voices are doubly hybrid.…

  • Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture

    Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture University of Minnesota Press 2006 272 pages 15 halftones; 5 7⁄8 x 9 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-4595-7 Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4595-4 Cloth ISBN: 0-8166-4594-9 Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4594-7 Rafael Pérez-Torres, Professor and Chair of English University of California, Los Angeles A major reassessment of how mixed-race identity affects Chicano culture and…

  • Impurity of Blood: Defining Race in Spain, 1870-1930

    Impurity of Blood: Defining Race in Spain, 1870-1930 Louisiana State University Press Published: December 2009 288 pages Trim: 6 x 9 Illustrations: 1 map Cloth ISBN: 13: 978-0-8071-3516-7 Joshua Goode, Professor of History and Cultural Studies Claremont Graduate University, California Although Francisco Franco courted the Nazis as allies during the Spanish Civil War in the…

  • A Premonition of Obama: La Raza Cosmica in America

    A Premonition of Obama: La Raza Cosmica in America New Perspectives Quarterly (NPQ) Volume 26 Issue 4 Pages 100 – 110 Published Online: 2009-10-26 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5842.2009.01119.x Ryszard Kapuscinski Ryszard Kapuscinski, who died in 2007, was one of the 20th century’s greatest literary journalists. He personally witnessed the dramatic post-World War II upheavals of decolonization and…

  • Mixing Race, Mixing Culture: Inter-American Literary Dialogues

    Mixing Race, Mixing Culture: Inter-American Literary Dialogues University of Texas Press 2002 6 x 9 in. 324 pp., 4 photos, 1 chart ISBN: 978-0-292-74348-9 Print-on-demand title Edited by Monika Kaup, Assistant Professor of English University of Washington, Seattle Debra Rosenthal, Assistant Professor of English John Carroll University Over the last five centuries, the story of…

  • The Historical Problematization of ‘Mixed Race’ in Psychological and Human-Scientific Discourses

    The Historical Problematization of ‘Mixed Race’ in Psychological and Human-Scientific Discourses Defining difference: Race and Racism in the History of Psychology 2004 Edited by Andrew Winston pages pp. 79-108 American Psychological Association Thomas Teo, Associate Professor Department of Psychology York University This paper reconstructs techniques of problematization regarding “mixed race” from Enlightenment inspired anthropological discourses…