Author: Steven

  • What Are You? Mixed-Heritage Brooklyn Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street Brooklyn, New York 2011-09-26, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) All events are held at BHS and are free with museum admission ($6 adults, $4 students/teachers/seniors, free for children under 12) unless otherwise noted. Admission is always free for BHS members. Participate in this discussion at…

  • Race, Blood, and What the Alligator Knows: A Review of What Blood Won’t Tell Southern California Law Review Volume 83, Number 3 (March 2010) pages 425-440 Jason A. Gillmer, Associate Professor of Law Texas Wesleyan School of Law From the opening pages of Ariela J. Gross’s What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on…

  • When Gray Matters More Than Black or White: The Schooling Experiences of Black-White Biracial Students Education and Urban Society Volume 45, Number 2 (March 2013) pages 175-207 DOI: 10.1177/0013124511406917 Rhina Maria Fernandes Williams, Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education Georgia State University, Atlanta Although research is scant, there is a growing interest in the manifestation of…

  • The Origins of the Afrikaners and their Language, 1652-1720: A Study in Miscegenation and Creole Race & Class Volume 15, Number 4 (April 1974) pages 461-495 DOI: 10.1177/030639687401500404 Ken Jordaan We are a bastard people with a bastard language. Ours is a bastard nature. That is good and fine. And like all bastards, uncertain of…

  • Pio Pico: The Last Governor of Mexican California University of Oklahoma Press 2010 256 pages 5.5″ x 8.5″, Illustrations: 7 B&W Illus. Hardcover ISBN: 9780806140902 Paperback ISBN: 9780806142371 Carlos Manuel Salomon, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies California State University, East Bay The first biography of a politically savvy Californio who straddled three eras Two-time governor…

  • California’s Hispanic Heritage: A View Into the Spanish Myth The Journal of San Diego History San Diego Historical Society Quarterly Volume 19, Number 1 (Winter 1973) Manuel Patricio Servin, Professor of Southwestern and Mexican-American History Arizona State University, Tempe No aspect of Borderlands’ history has been more distorted than that of the Spanish colonization of…

  • The first mixed race student is admitted to Wheaton Wheaton College History Wheaton College, Newton, Massachusetts 2011-02-02 Deanna Hauck The first African-American student to attend Wheaton probably did so unbeknownst to the school. In 1856-57, Mary E. Stafford of Cumberland Island, Georgia attended Wheaton. She was the daughter of a white father [Robert Stafford] and an…

  • The Anglo-Indians: A Disorganized Marginal Group Social Forces Volume 14, Number 2 (December 1935) pages 263-268 Paul Frederick Cressey, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Wheaton College, Newton, Massachusetts FOUR centuries of European contact with India have left a biological residue of many thousand people of mixed European and Indian stock. Since 1911 this group has…

  • How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon Verso Books October 2008 Hardback, 240 pages Paperback, 272 pages Hardback ISBN: 9781844672752 Paperback ISBN: 9781844674343 David R. Roediger, Foundation Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History University of Kansas An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by…

  • Interracial Marriage and Admixture in Hawaii Biodemography and Social Biology Volume 17, Issue 4 (1970) pages 278-291 DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1970.9987885 Clarence E. Glick, Professor of Sociology University of Hawaii Michener’s phrase “the golden men of Hawaii” reflects a popular romantic interest in the blending of ethnic elements that has been going on in Hawaii for almost…