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  • The Author Speaks: Interview With Daniel J. Sharfstein AARP Bulletin American Association of Retired Persons 2011-02-17 Julia M. Klein His powerful new book examines how three American families became white Before Daniel J. Sharfstein’s senior year at Harvard, he spent the summer of 1993 in South Africa as a volunteer for a voter education project.…

  • Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America [Review: Diner] American Historical Review Volume 96, Number 2 (April 1991) pages 624-625 Hasia R. Diner, Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History; Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies New York University Paul R. Spickard. Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century…

  • Cosmopolitan or mongrel? Créolité, hybridity and ‘douglarisation’ in Trinidad European Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 2, Number 3 (September 1999) pages 331-353 DOI: 10.1177/136754949900200303 Eve Stoddard, Dana Professor of Global Studies St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York Grant H. Cornwell, President College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio The article examines a Trinidadian calypso and its reception…

  • The Invisible Line Between Black and White Smithsonian.com 2011-02-18 T. A. Frail Vanderbilt professor Daniel Sharfstein discusses the history of the imprecise definition of race in America For much of their history, Americans dealt with racial differences by drawing a strict line between white people and black people. But Daniel J. Sharfstein, an associate professor…

  • A Chat with Kat: Marissa Hui, President of HapaSC Her Campus 2011-02-28 Katharine Goldman I remember clearly the first time someone used the term “hapa”: I was a freshman, waiting for Campus Cruiser in front of New/North, when a random guy asked me if I was hapa. Not knowing what it meant, I asked for…

  • College Essay Part II, Unabridged: The Undergraduate Years Amherst College The Amherst Story Project Fall 2008 Brunnell Velázquez ’11 I enjoy looking at myself in the mirror. Lately, I find that the bathroom mirrors in Morrow dormitory give off the clearest reflections of my gorgeous, most handsome features. Since it is not in my nature…

  • Brooklyn Museum Acquires Eighteenth-Century Painting by Agostino Brunias Depicting Dominica Mixed Race Colonial Elite The Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052 T(718) 638-5000, F(718) 501-6134 January 2011 Agostino Brunias (Italian, ca. 1730-1796), Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a Landscape, ca. 1764-1796, Oil on canvas, 2010.59, Gift of Mrs.…

  • Author and scholar Adele Logan Alexander appears at the 2010 National Book Festival 2010 National Book Festival Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2010-09-25 Running Time: 00:32:45 Adele Logan Alexander, Professor of History George Washington University Speaker Biography: Adele Logan Alexander’s research and teaching incorporate the black Atlantic world, African-American history, family history, gender issues and…

  • Shades of White The New York Times 2011-02-25 Raymond Arsenault, Visiting Scholar, Florida State University Study Center in London and John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History, University of South Florida Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. 415 pp.…

  • Tracing lives of three ‘white’ families and their black forebears The Boston Globe 2011-02-20 Dan Cryer, Globe Correspondent Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. 415 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9781594202827. Randall Lee Gibson, an urbane, Yale-educated Confederate general, mocked black…