Tag: Zelideth Rivas

  • Rivas awarded NEH Summer Stipends award to work on book News From Marshall University Huntington, West Virginia 2015-03-25 Dave Wellman, Director of Communications Telephone: (304) 696-7153 HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Dr. Zelideth Maria Rivas, an assistant professor of Japanese in Marshall University’s Department of Modern Languages, has been awarded a “very competitive” National Endowment for the…

  • One Big Mixed Race Classroom: New Models for Digital, Transnational, and Cross-Disciplinary Pedagogy Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association Beyond the Logic of Debt, Toward an Ethics of Collective Dissent 2013-11-21 through 2013-11-24 Washington Hilton 1919 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. Washington Hilton, Columbia Hall 9 (T) Friday, 2013-11-22, 12:00-13:45 EST (Local Time) CHAIR:…

  • Negotiating Mixed Race: Projection, Nostalgia, and the Rejection of Japanese-Brazilian Biracial Children Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 14, Number 3 (October 2011) pages 361-388 Zelideth MarĂ­a Rivas, Professor of Chinese and Japanese Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa Since their arrival in Brazil in 1908, the presence of Japanese immigrants has shaken Brazilian conceptions of race.…