Author: Steven

  • Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law University of North Carolina Press December 2009 288 pages 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3318-6 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-0727-6 Fay Botham, Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies University of Iowa In this fascinating cultural history of interracial marriage and its legal regulation in the United…

  • In the heated debates over identity politics, few theorists have looked carefully at the conceptualizations of identity assumed by all sides. “Visible Identities” fills this gap.

  • Volumes 1 and 2 of this 3 volume set collect the major contributions to the scientific debate on the unity of the human race in the 1850s, focusing particularly on the idea of hybridity. Volume 3 republishes the major contributions to the political debate on miscegenation.

  • The Idea Of Race Hackett Publishing Company 2000 256 pages Cloth ISBN: 0-87220-459-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-459-1 Paper ISBN: 0-87220-458-8, ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-458-4 Edited by Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy Pennsylvania State University Tommy L. Lott, Professor of Philosophy San José State University A survey of the historical development of the idea of race, this…

  • This biography details the life of Bessie Head – a life which echoes so many of the aspects of the distressing history of South Africa in the last half century. She was born in an asylum to a mother who was considered mad because her father was black. Despite the disadvantages of being both a…

  • Dr. Rainier Spencer Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed.  Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #131 – Dr. Rainier Spencer Wednesday, 2009-12-09  22:00Z Rainier Spencer, Director and Professor of Afro-American Studies; Professor…

  • Why Are People Different?: Multiracial Families in Picture Books and the Dialogue of Difference The Lion and the Unicorn Volume 25, Number 3 September 2001 pp. 412-426 E-ISSN: 1080-6563 Print ISSN: 0147-2593 DOI: 10.1353/uni.2001.0037 Karen Sands-O’Connor The issue of race has often been contentious in children’s literature, from controversies over Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,…

  • The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, born Joseph Bologne, was the son of an African slave and a French plantation owner on the island of Guadeloupe. The story of his improbable rise in French society, his life as a famous fencer, celebrated violinist-composer and conductor, and later commander of a colored regiment in the French Revolution, should,…

  • Stanford profs examine mixed race in U.S. society The Dartmouth Victoria Boggiano, The Dartmouth Staff 2008-04-18 In 2000, the U.S. Census gave Americans the chance to identify themselves by more than one race for the first time. Almost seven million people — over 80 percent of whom were under 25 — checked more than one…

  • Inexacting Whiteness: Blanqueamiento as a Gender-Specific Trope in the Nineteenth Century Cuban Studies Volume 36, 2005 pages 105-128 E-ISSN: 1548-2464 Print ISSN: 0361-4441 DOI: 10.1353/cub.2005.0033 Gema R. Guevara, Associate Professor, Languages & Literature and Associate Professor, Spanish Section University of Utah In Cuba, race, nation, and popular music were inextricably linked to the earliest formulations…