Day: October 21, 2011

  • The Preacher and the Politician: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and Race in America University of Virginia Press October 2009 160 pages 5 1/2x 81/4 Cloth ISBN: 0-8139-2886-9 Clarence E. Walker, Professor of History University of California, Davis Gregory D. Smithers, Visiting Associate Professor of History Virginia Commonwealth University Barack Obama’s inauguration as the first African American president of…

  • “Asi lo paresçe por su aspeto”: Physiognomy and the Construction of Difference in Colonial Bogotá Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 91, Number 4 (2011) pages 601-631 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-1416648 Joanne Rappaport, Professor of Anthropology Georgetown University My objective in this article is to examine the relationship between perception and classification in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Andes,…

  • “Pure and Noble Indians, Untainted by Inferior Idolatrous Races”: Native Elites and the Discourse of Blood Purity in Late Colonial Mexico Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 91, Number 4 (2011) pages 633-663 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-1416657 Peter B. Villella, Assistant Professor of History University of North Carolina, Greensboro As sixteenth-century Spaniards constructed their global empire, they carried…

  • Toward a Cleaner White(ness): New Racial Identities The Philosophical Forum Volume 36, Issue 3 (Fall 2005) pages 243–277 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9191.2005.00203.x David Ingram, Professor of Philosophy Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois The essay critically examines some arguments advanced by Henry Giroux that ‘whiteness’ can be appropriated within pedagogical settings as a positive force in combating racism. I…

  • She Just Loved Baseball Black Athlete Sports Network 2010-02-28 Bill Carroll NEW YORK—Effa Manley was seemingly yet another “lost” pioneer in Negro Leagues Baseball before being posthumously honored in 2006 with induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. She was part of a class of players and executives selected by a special committee chaired by…

  • Documentary Genocide: Families Surnames on Racial Hit List Richmond Times-Dispatch 2000-03-05 Peter Hardin, Former Washington Correspondent   Long before the Indian woman gave birth to a baby boy, Virginia branded him with a race other than his own.   The young Monacan Indian mother delivered her son at Lynchburg General Hospital in 1971. Proud of…