Crossing National Borders - Encountering Racial Boundaries: Mixed-Race Jamaican Immigrants in the U.S

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Placide
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Race ◽  
Racial Boundaries ◽  
The U.S ◽  
National Borders

Race, Memory, and Military Men’s Sexuality

2020 ◽  
pp. 50-83
Author(s):  
Rebecca Forgash
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Black Power ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Racial Boundaries ◽  
Racial Ideologies ◽  
International Couples ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Racial Discourses ◽  
The U.S

This chapter analyzes Okinawan discourses on race and military men's sexuality, with a focus on how Japanese and American racial discourses have shaped local understandings of difference. It discusses how the imperial rhetoric positioned Okinawans and other Asians alongside the Japanese in unified opposition to Europeans and Americans. During the postwar occupation, the U.S. military and its personnel were introduced into the Okinawa discourses on U.S. imperialism in Asia, Jim Crow segregation, and the 1960s civil rights and black power movements. The chapter also features the personal narratives of individuals who self-consciously viewed their relationships as transgressing established racial boundaries. It narrates stories that illustrate the struggle of military international couples in order to understand and rework racial ideologies and expectations in Okinawa's postwar society.

Epilogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 215-226
Author(s):  
Jasmine Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
White Supremacy ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Images ◽  
Female Figure ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
The U.S

The epilogue reflects on how popular media images of the U.S. mulatta and Brazilian mulata evoke anxieties about blackness in a hemispheric context. Connecting the analysis of the media texts of the 2000s with contemporary political and cultural moments, the epilogue shows how the racial gendered logics of the mixed-race female figure aligns with renewed wave of nationalism, white supremacy, and misogyny in a trans-American context. The epilogue calls for greater black solidarities across the Americas.

Passing and Posing between Black and White

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Gotto
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Race ◽  
Early History ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
American Film ◽  
Color Line ◽  
Racial Boundaries ◽  
Black And White ◽  
American Cinema ◽  
History Of

Since its inception, U.S. American cinema has grappled with the articulation of racial boundaries. This applies, in the first instance, to featuring mixed-race characters crossing the color line. In a broader sense, however, this also concerns viewing conditions and knowledge configurations. The fact that American film engages itself so extensively with the unbalanced relation between black and white is neither coincidental nor trivial to state — it has much more to do with disputing boundaries that pertain to the medium itself. Lisa Gotto examines this constellation along the early history of American film, the cinematic modernism of the late 1950s, and the post-classical cinema of the turn of the millennium.

scholarly journals “A Black Sister to Massachusetts”: Latin America and the Fugitive Democratic Ethos of Frederick Douglass

2015 ◽  
Vol 109 (4) ◽  
pp. 690-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
JULIET HOOKER
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
The United States ◽  
Frederick Douglass ◽  
Comparative Political Theory ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The U.S

The aim of this article is to read Frederick Douglass as a theorist of democracy. It explores the hemispheric dimensions of Douglass' political thought, especially in relation to multiracial democracy. Douglass is generally viewed as an African-American thinker primarily concerned with U.S. politics, and the transnational scope of his ideas is rarely acknowledged. Instead, this article traces the connections between Douglass’ Caribbean interventions and his arguments about racial politics in the United States. It argues that Douglass not only found exemplars of black self-government and multiracial democracy in the Caribbean and Central America, he also sought to incorporate black and mixed-race Latin Americans in order to reshape the contours of the U.S. polity and challenge white supremacy. Viewed though a hemispheric lens Douglass is revealed as a radically democratic thinker whose ideas can be utilized to sketch a fugitive democratic ethos that contains important resources for contemporary democratic theory and comparative political theory.

Dancing on the Rim, Tiptoeing through Minefields

2006 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELIZABETH JAMESON
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Cross National ◽  
National Borders

This article uses border crossings by the author's family to illustrate the problems of historical narratives that do not consider who and what exists beyond national borders,as well as across conceptual boundaries of race, class, ethnicity, religion, gender,and sexuality. The national U.S. narrative rarely crosses the borders of what became three North American nations, or those between a pre-colonial North American past and a post-colonial national history, or profound social divisions. Histories that cross national and social boundaries clarify what Sarah Carter terms their "categories and terrains of exclusion." Fears triggered by the attacks of September 11, 2001, revealed changing constructions of the U.S.-Canadian border. Without stories that cross national and social divides, it is hard to recognize humanity across those borders or to imagine a connected future. Such histories must recognize analytic categories and narratives divided and erased by social and national borders, and the unequal power inscribed in androcentric, ethnocentric, and nationalist narratives.

“RECENT SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT AND LEGAL EFFORTS TO SECURE NATIONAL BORDERS IN THE U.S., EUROPE, ISRAEL, AND IRAQ”

2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 2201-2212
Author(s):  
William Mackey ◽  
James Long ◽  
Ilan Weinmann ◽  
Avigdor Zonnenshain
Keyword(s):  
Systems Development ◽  
The U.S ◽  
National Borders
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