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  • Nitasha Tamar Sharma: Hawai’i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific

    Nitasha Tamar Sharma: Hawai’i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific New Books Network 2022-03-30 Hawai’i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific (Duke UP, 2021) maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges from a decade of fieldwork with both Hawaiʻi-raised…

  • Eric Stinton: It’s Time To Recognize That Black History Is Part Of Hawaii’s History

    Eric Stinton: It’s Time To Recognize That Black History Is Part Of Hawaii’s History Honolulu Civic Beat Honolulu, Hawaii 2022-02-07 Eric Stinton Nitasha Tamar Sharma Nitasha Tamar Sharma attempts to clarify misconceptions and challenges common assumptions about race in Hawaii in her book “Hawaiʻi Is My Haven.” On the cover of Nitasha Tamar Sharma’s recent…

  • Multiracial Americans could represent America’s future, some say

    While still a relatively small part of the population, more Americans than ever identify as multiracial, according to the census

  • Hawai′i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific

    “Hawaiʻi Is My Haven” maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges from a decade of fieldwork with both Hawaiʻi-raised Black locals and Black transplants who moved to the Islands from North America, Africa, and the Caribbean.

  • Interracial Intimacies Symposium

    Please join us for a two-day symposium examining the history of interracial intimacies in comparative and transnational perspective. This symposium offers emerging and established scholars an opportunity to come together to discuss issues of interracial intimacies broadly construed.

  • Beyond Ethnicity: New Politics of Race in Hawaii

    Written by scholars of various disciplines, the essays in this volume dig beneath the veneer of Hawai‘i’s myth as a melting pot paradise to uncover historical and complicated cross-racial dynamics.

  • Red and Yellow, Black and Brown: Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies

    “Red and Yellow, Black and Brown” gathers together life stories and analysis by twelve contributors who express and seek to understand the often very different dynamics that exist for mixed race people who are not part white. The chapters focus on the social, psychological, and political situations of mixed race people who have links to…

  • A Look at Looking Different

    A Look at Looking Different The New York Times 2014-12-02 Felicia R. Lee ‘Crossing Borders,’ at the Brooklyn Historical Society Alexander David grew up with a Chinese mother and a white Jewish father in the liberal Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. He attended the predominantly Asian elite Stuyvesant High School. He was comfortable in his…

  • ‘Did Somebody Say “Mulatto”?’ Speaking Critically on Mixed Heritage

    ‘Did Somebody Say “Mulatto”?’ Speaking Critically on Mixed Heritage The Huffington Post The Blog 2014-11-21 A. B. Wilkinson, Assistant Professor of History University of Nevada, Las Vegas Photograph: Ken Tanabe One of the main characters in the award-winning film Dear White People is a mixed “black and white” college student who works to make sense…

  • Asian American Studies: Building Academic Bridges – Nitasha Sharma

    Asian American Studies: Building Academic Bridges – Nitasha Sharma The Department of African American Studies Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois October 2010 Ronald Roach NITASHA TAMAR SHARMA Title: Assistant Professor of African-American and Asian American Studies, Northwestern University Education: Ph.D., Anthropology, University of alifornia at Santa Barbara; M.A., Anthropology, University of California at Santa Barbara; B.A.,…