Tag: Kumari Jayawardena

  • Race-Mixing, Radicalism, and Reimaginating the Nation Journal of Women’s History Volume 22, Number 4, Winter 2010 pages 253-256 E-ISSN: 1527-2036, Print ISSN: 1042-7961 Hilary Jones, Assistant Professor of African History University of Maryland The title of Kumari Jayawardena’s monograph, Erasure of the Euro-Asian, reveals the degree to which people of mixed racial ancestry have been…

  • Naming the Subject: Recovering “Euro-Asian” History Journal of Women’s History Volume 22, Number 4, Winter 2010 pages 257-262 E-ISSN: 1527-2036, Print ISSN: 1042-7961 Emma J. Teng, T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations; Associate Professor of Chinese Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology The historic election of Barack Obama as America’s first biracial president…

  • Erasure of Euro-Asian: Recovering Early Radicalism and Feminism in South Asia Women Unlimited 2009 312 pages 8.6 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches ISBN-10: 8188965405; ISBN-13: 978-8188965403 Kumari Jayawardena, Emeritus Associate Professor University of Colombo This book, focuses on the interaction between Asia and Europe in the wake of Portuguese, Dutch, French and British imperialism. It…

  • Recasting The Half-Caste Journal of Women’s History Volume 22, Number 4, Winter 2010 E-ISSN: 1527-2036 Print ISSN: 1042-7961 pages 263-267 Kumari Jayawardena In Sri Lanka, serious book reviews are not only few and far between, but authors also do not usually reply to reviews of their books. So while it was a real windfall to…