Mixed Race Studies

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  • Going Viral: Stedman’s Narrative, Textual Variation, and Life in Atlantic Studies

    Going Viral: Stedman’s Narrative, Textual Variation, and Life in Atlantic Studies Romantic Circles Praxis Series Circulations: Romanticism and the Black Atlantic October 2011 47 paragraphs Dustin Kennedy English Department The Pennsylvania State University The current multiplex configuration of Stedman’s Narrative emerged in 1988, the result of Richard and Sally Price’s new scholarly edition. The Prices’…

  • Race War and Nation in Caribbean Gran Colombia, Cartagena, 1810–1832

    Race War and Nation in Caribbean Gran Colombia, Cartagena, 1810–1832 American Historical Review Volume 111, Number 2, 2006 pages 336-361, 44 paragraphs Marixa Lasso, Associate Professor of History Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio During the Age of Revolution, nations in the Americas faced the quandary of how to reconcile slavery and racial discrimination with…

  • Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White

    When Alice Jones, a former nanny, married Leonard Rhinelander in 1924, she became the first black woman to be listed in the Social Register as a member of one of New York’s wealthiest families. Once news of the marriage became public, a scandal of race, class, and sex gripped the nation—and forced the couple into…

  • Are you ‘diverse’?

    Are you ‘diverse’? The Boston Globe 2012-05-05 Dante Ramos, Deputy Editorial Page Editor In the mid-’90s, around the time Elizabeth Warren’s name was appearing on a list of minority law professors, I was applying for entry-level reporting jobs at dozens of newspapers. In a few cases — one of which involved a summer job at…

  • African-Scottish families

    African-Scottish families A North East Story: Scotland, Africa and Slavery in the Caribbean 2008 This exhibition has been organised by an Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire Bicentenary Committee to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Britain’s outlawing of the African slave trade in 1807. It follows on from a service of commemoration and a series of public lectures…

  • A 30 Percent of Mixed Race Component in Argentina’s Population

    A 30 Percent of Mixed Race Component in Argentina’s Population Agentina Investiga: Divulgación y Noticas Universitarias Universidad Maimónides Facultad de Ciencias Médicas 2012-04-09 Adrián Giacchino Departamento de Prensa Universidad Maimónides The research of a team formed by anthropologists, biologists, biochemists and archeologists proves that the autochthonous contribution in Argentina’s population might be of a 30%.…

  • Affirmative action backed in largely black Brazil

    Affirmative action backed in largely black Brazil Associated Press 2012-05-04 Bradley Brooks SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s top court has backed sweeping affirmative action programs used in more than 1,000 universities across this nation, which has more blacks than any country outside Africa yet where a severe gap in education equality between races persists. The…

  • 4 Years Later, Race Is Still Issue for Some Voters

    4 Years Later, Race Is Still Issue for Some Voters The New York Times 2012-05-03 Sabrina Tavernise STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — This is the land of die-hard Democrats — mill workers, coal miners and union members. They have voted party line for generations, forming a reliable constituency for just about any Democrat who decides to run…

  • The Historiography of Métis Land Dispersal, 1870-1890

    The Historiography of Métis Land Dispersal, 1870-1890 Manitoba History Number 30, Autumn 1995 Brad Milne History Department University of Manitoba The Manitoba Act of 1870 provided substantial land grants to the Métis at Red River. Section 31 set aside 1.4 million acres of land for distribution among the children of Métis heads of families residing…

  • The Forgotten Diaspora

    The Forgotten Diaspora The Official Gateway to Scotland 2008 Geoff Palmer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Life Sciences Heriot-Watt University I was born in Jamaica in 1940, the largest British island in the Caribbean. I emigrated to London in 1955 to join my mother and earn a living. She had emigrated in 1948. In…