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White Métisse

Author : Kim Lefèvre
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824872665
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book White Métisse written by Kim Lefèvre and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this evocative memoir, Kim Lefèvre recounts her childhood and adolescence growing up in colonial Viet Nam. As a little girl living with her Vietnamese mother, she doesn’t understand the reactions of others toward her, their open mistrust, contempt, and rejection. Though she feels no different from those around her, she comes to understand that to Vietnamese she is living proof of her mother’s moral downfall, a constant and unwelcome reminder of a child conceived with a French soldier out of wedlock. As anticolonial sentiment grows in an atmosphere of rising nationalism, Lefèvre’s situation becomes increasingly precarious. Set within a tumultuous period of Franco-Vietnamese history—resistance and revolt, World War II and the Japanese invasion, the first war for independence against the French—White Métisse offers a unique view of watershed events and provides insights into the impact of upheaval and open conflict on families and individuals. Lefèvre’s story captures the instability and daily humiliations of her life and those of other marginalized members of society. Sent by her mother to live with distant family members who view her variously as ungrateful, a bad seed, or “neither gold nor silver,” she is later abandoned in an orphanage with other métisse girls. Lefèvre’s discovery of her own sexuality is overshadowed by her mother’s concerned advice to not repeat the same mistakes she had made, reminding her daughter of the Vietnamese social mores that condemn her very existence. Eventually the challenge and solace of education lead to a scholarship to study in Paris and Lefèvre departs Viet Nam for a new life in France in 1960. Part personal memoir, part coming of age story, Lefèvre’s moving account shows the courage and strength of an individual who is able to embrace her hybrid identity and gain self-esteem on her own terms despite living between worlds. White Métisse has been in print in France since its appearance in 1989 and continues to resonate strongly in the universal contexts of immigration, shifting cultural identities, rejection, and assimilation. Now Jack A. Yeager’s elegant translation makes Kim Lefèvre’s compelling memoir available to English-speaking readers.

Contemporary Sino-French Cinemas

Author : Michelle E. Bloom
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824875117
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Sino-French Cinemas written by Michelle E. Bloom and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational cinemas are eclipsing national cinemas in the contemporary world, and Sino-French films exemplify this phenomenon through the cinematic coupling of the Sinophone and the Francophone, linking France not just with the Chinese mainland but also with the rest of the Chinese-speaking world. Sinophone directors most often reach out to French cinema by referencing and adapting it. They set their films in Paris and metropolitan France, cast French actors, and sometimes use French dialogue, even when the directors themselves don't understand it. They tend to view France as mysterious, sexy, and sophisticated, just as the French see China and Taiwan as exotic. As Michelle E. Bloom makes clear, many films move past a simplistic opposition between East and West and beyond Orientalist and Occidentalist cross-cultural interplay. Bloom focuses on films that have appeared since 2000 such as Tsai Ming-liang's What Time Is It There? , Hou Hsiao-hsien's Flight of the Red Balloon, and Dai Sijie's Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. She views the work of these well-known directors through a Sino-French optic, applying the tropes of métissage (or biraciality), intertextuality, adaptation and remake, translation, and imitation to shed new light on their work. She also calls attention to important, lesser studied films: Taiwanese director Cheng Yu-chieh's Yang Yang, which depicts the up-and-coming Taiwanese star Sandrine Pinna as a mixed race beauty; and Emily Tang Xiaobai's debut film Conjugation, which contrasts Paris and post-Tiananmen Square Beijing, the one an incarnation of liberty, the other a place of entrapment. Bloom's insightful analysis also probes what such films reveal about their Taiwanese and Chinese creators. Scholars have long studied Sino-French literature, but this inaugural full-length work on Sino-French cinema maps uncharted territory, offering a paradigm for understanding other cross-cultural interminglings and tools to study transnational cinema and world cinema. The Sino-French, rich and multifaceted, linguistically, culturally, and ethnically, constitutes an important part of film studies, Francophone studies, Sinophone studies and myriad other fields. This is a must-read for students, scholars, and lovers of film.

Black Skins, Black Masks

Author : Shirley Anne Tate
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 135195525X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Black Skins, Black Masks written by Shirley Anne Tate and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Skin, Black Masks: Hybridity, Dialogism, Performativity offers a timely exploration of Black identity and its negotiation. The book draws on empirical work recording everyday conversations between Black women: friends, peers and family members. The conversations recorded in the book reveal the ways in which women negotiate the category of Blackness, in what Tate calls a ’hybridity-of-the-everyday’.

White Enough to Be American?

Author : Lauren L. Basson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469606437
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book White Enough to Be American? written by Lauren L. Basson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racial mixture posed a distinct threat to European American perceptions of the nation and state in the late nineteenth century, says Lauren Basson, as it exposed and disrupted the racial categories that organized political and social life in the United States. Offering a provocative conceptual approach to the study of citizenship, nationhood, and race, Basson explores how racial mixture challenged and sometimes changed the boundaries that defined what it meant to be American. Drawing on government documents, press coverage, and firsthand accounts, Basson presents four fascinating case studies concerning indigenous people of "mixed" descent. She reveals how the ambiguous status of racially mixed people underscored the problematic nature of policies and practices based on clearly defined racial boundaries. Contributing to timely discussions about race, ethnicity, citizenship, and nationhood, Basson demonstrates how the challenges to the American political and legal systems posed by racial mixture helped lead to a new definition of what it meant to be American--one that relied on institutions of private property and white supremacy.

Canada and the Métis, 1869-1885

Author : D.N. Sprague
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554587913
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Canada and the Métis, 1869-1885 written by D.N. Sprague and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2009-08-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In this book, Professor D.N. Sprague tells why the Métis did not receive the land that was supposed to be theirs under the Manitoba Act.... Sprague offers many examples of the methods used, such as legislation justifying the sale of the land allotted to Métis children without any of the safeguards ordinarily required in connection with transactions with infants. Then there were powers of attorny, tax sales—any number of stratgems could be used, and were—to see that the land intended for the Métis and their families went to others. All branches of the government participated. It is a shameful tale, but one that must be told.” — from the foreword by Thomas R. Berger

Indians in the Americas

Author : William Marder
Publisher : Book Tree
ISBN 13 : 9781585091041
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Indians in the Americas written by William Marder and published by Book Tree. This book was released on 2005 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books over the years have promised to tell the true story of the Native American Indians. Many, however, have been filled with misinformation or derogatory views. Finally here is a book that the Native American can believe in. This well researched book tells the true story of Native American accomplishments, challenges and struggles and is a gold mine for the serious researcher. It includes extensive notes to the text and over 500 photographs and illustrations -- many that have never before been published. The author, after 20 years of research, has attempted to provide the world with the most truthful and accurate portrayal of the Native American Indians. Every serious researcher and Native American family should have this ground-breaking book.

'Mixed Race' Studies

Author : Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135170649
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book 'Mixed Race' Studies written by Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixed race studies is one of the fastest growing, as well as one of the most important and controversial areas in the field of race and ethnic relations. Bringing together pioneering and controversial scholarship from both the social and the biological sciences, as well as the humanities, this reader charts the evolution of debates on 'race' and 'mixed race' from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book is divided into three main sections: tracing the origins: miscegenation, moral degeneracy and genetics mapping contemporary and foundational discourses: 'mixed race', identities politics, and celebration debating definitions: multiraciality, census categories and critiques. This collection adds a new dimension to the growing body of literature on the topic and provides a comprehensive history of the origins and directions of 'mixed race' research as an intellectual movement. For students of anthropology, race and ethnicity, it is an invaluable resource for examining the complexities and paradoxes of 'racial' thinking across space, time and disciplines.

Scattered Belongings

Author : Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000142949
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Scattered Belongings written by Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the American golfer Tiger Woods proclaimed himself a "Caublinasian", affirming his mixed Caucasian, Black, Native American and Asian ancestry, a storm of controversy was created. This book is about people faced by the strain of belonging and not belonging within the narrow confines of the terms 'Black' or 'White'. This is a unique and radical study. It interweaves the stories of six women of mixed African/African Caribbean and white European heritage with an analysis of the concepts of hybridity and mixed race identity.

Black British Feminism

Author : Heidi Safia Mirza
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415152891
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book Black British Feminism written by Heidi Safia Mirza and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of classic texts and new black feminist scholarship that traces the crucial developments and debates of the last twenty years. It is the first volume entirely dedicated to the writings of black women in a British context.

We Know Who We Are

Author : Martha Harroun Foster
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806154667
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book We Know Who We Are written by Martha Harroun Foster and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They know who they are. Of predominantly Chippewa, Cree, French, and Scottish descent, the Métis people have flourished as a distinct ethnic group in Canada and the northwestern United States for nearly two hundred years. Yet their Métis identity is often ignored or misunderstood in the United States. Unlike their counterparts in Canada, the U.S. Métis have never received federal recognition. In fact, their very identity has been questioned. In this rich examination of a Métis community—the first book-length work to focus on the Montana Métis—Martha Harroun Foster combines social, political, and economic analysis to show how its people have adapted to changing conditions while retaining a strong sense of their own unique culture and traditions. Despite overwhelming obstacles, the Métis have used the bonds of kinship and common history to strengthen and build their community. As Foster carefully traces the lineage of Métis families from the Spring Creek area, she shows how the people retained their sense of communal identity. She traces the common threads linking diverse Métis communities throughout Montana and lends insight into the nature of Métis identity in general. And in raising basic questions about the nature of ethnicity, this pathbreaking work speaks to the difficulties of ethnic identification encountered by all peoples of mixed descent.

The Uprooted

Author : Christina Elizabeth Firpo
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824858115
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book The Uprooted written by Christina Elizabeth Firpo and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-01-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a century French officials in Indochina systematically uprooted métis children—those born of Southeast Asian mothers and white, African, or Indian fathers—from their homes. In many cases, and for a wide range of reasons—death, divorce, the end of a romance, a return to France, or because the birth was the result of rape—the father had left the child in the mother's care. Although the program succeeded in rescuing homeless children from life on the streets, for those in their mothers' care it was disastrous. Citing an 1889 French law and claiming that raising children in the Southeast Asian cultural milieu was tantamount to abandonment, colonial officials sought permanent, "protective" custody of the children, placing them in state-run orphanages or educational institutions to be transformed into "little Frenchmen." The Uprooted offers an in-depth investigation of the colony's child-removal program: the motivations behind it, reception of it, and resistance to it. Métis children, Eurasians in particular, were seen as a threat on multiple fronts—colonial security, white French dominance, and the colonial gender order. Officials feared that abandoned métis might become paupers or prostitutes, thereby undermining white prestige. Métis were considered particularly vulnerable to the lure of anticolonialist movements—their ambiguous racial identity and outsider status, it was thought, might lead them to rebellion. Métischildren who could pass for white also played a key role in French plans to augment their own declining numbers and reproduce the French race, nation, and, after World War II, empire. French child welfare organizations continued to work in Vietnam well beyond independence, until 1975. The story of the métis children they sought to help highlights the importance—and vulnerability—of indigenous mothers and children to the colonial project. Part of a larger historical trend, the Indochina case shows striking parallels to that of Australia's "Stolen Generation" and the Indian and First Nations boarding schools in the United States and Canada. This poignant and little known story will be of interest to scholars of French and Southeast Asian studies, colonialism, gender studies, and the historiography of the family.

Ethnolinguistic profile of the Canadian Metis

Author : Patrick C. Douaud
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 1772822620
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Ethnolinguistic profile of the Canadian Metis written by Patrick C. Douaud and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing upon the Mission Métis of Lac la Biche, the author examines the use of French, Cree, and English as a means of garnering insight into the mechanisms of western Canadian Métis cultural and linguistic variation. He concludes that the relationship of the people to their environment is inextricably bound to an understanding of their language and culture and that the delineation of cultural boundaries is, therefore, a highly complex matter.

The Western Métis

Author : Patrick C. Douaud
Publisher : University of Regina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780889771994
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book The Western Métis written by Patrick C. Douaud and published by University of Regina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a collection of articles concerning the Western Metis, published in Prairie Forum between 1978 and 2007. These articles have been chosen for the breadth and scope of the investigations upon which they are based, and for the reflections they will arouse in anyone interested in Western Canadian history and politics.

"Neither White Men Nor Indians"

Author : Linda M. Waggoner
Publisher : x
ISBN 13 : 9780915709953
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book "Neither White Men Nor Indians" written by Linda M. Waggoner and published by x. This book was released on 2002 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: commentary re: fraud allegations; illustrated cover

From New Peoples to New Nations

Author : Gerhard J. Ens
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442627115
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book From New Peoples to New Nations written by Gerhard J. Ens and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New Peoples to New Nations is a broad historical account of the emergence of the Metis as distinct peoples in North America over the last three hundred years. Examining the cultural, economic, and political strategies through which communities define their boundaries, Gerhard J. Ens and Joe Sawchuk trace the invention and reinvention of Metis identity from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Their work updates, rethinks, and integrates the many disparate aspects of Metis historiography, providing the first comprehensive narrative of Metis identity in more than fifty years. Based on extensive archival materials, interviews, oral histories, ethnographic research, and first-hand working knowledge of Metis political organizations, From New Peoples to New Nations addresses the long and complex history of Metis identity from the Battle of Seven Oaks to today's legal and political debates.

Métis

Author : Lynn E. Ponton
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 0865347913
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Métis written by Lynn E. Ponton and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mtis are the descendants of Cree and Assiniboine women who joined with French and Scottish men to raise children and shape a hybrid culture in the heart of Canada. Four generations of adolescents come of age during their 16th year, and together their voices tell the story of one family and of a people.

Métis Rising

Author : Yvonne Boyer
Publisher : Purich Books
ISBN 13 : 0774880775
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Métis Rising written by Yvonne Boyer and published by Purich Books. This book was released on 2022-04-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Métis Rising presents a remarkable cross-section of perspectives to demonstrate that there is no single Métis experience – only a common sense of belonging and a commitment to justice. The contributors to this unique collection, most of whom are Métis themselves, offer accounts ranging from personal reflections on identity to tales of advocacy against poverty and poor housing, and for the recognition of Métis rights. This extraordinary work exemplifies how contemporary Métis identity has been forged into a force to be reckoned with.