Author: Steven

  • Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was Brazil’s foremost novelist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a mulatto, Machado experienced the ambiguity of racial identity throughout his life. Literary critics first interpreted Machado as an embittered misanthrope uninterested in the plight of his fellow African Brazilians.

  • Recent Decisions: Constitutional Law: Miscegenation Laws Marquette Law Review Volume 48, Issue 4 (Spring 1965) pages 616-620 C. Michael Conter Constitutional Law: Miscegenation Laws: The defendants were convicted under section 798.05 of the Florida statutes, which prohibited nighttime cohabitation of the same room by a Negro and a white of different sexes. On appeal, their…

  • Race and Indigeneity in the Life of Elisha Apes Ethnohistory Volume 60, Number 1 (Winter 2013) pages 27-50 DOI: 10.1215/00141801-1816166 Nancy Shoemaker, Professor of History University of Connecticut This essay examines cultures of racial categorization in New England and New Zealand through the life of one migrant, Elisha Apes, the younger half-brother of the radical…

  • The Racial Politics of Culture and Silent Racism in Peru Paper prepared for the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Conference on Racism and Public Policy Durban, South Africa 2001-09-03 through 2001-09-05 13 pages Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis In this talk mestizaje is both the…

  • Miscegenation Illustrated Columbus Daily Enquirer Columbus, Georgia 1865-10-27 page 2, column 3 Source: Digital Library of Georgia Extracts from a new Book of Travel, by an American Physician. The Mixture of Race in Peru. The aboriginal race was the Indian; and subsequently there came into the country the Spaniard, the negro, and more recently the…

  • Interracial Intimacy: Hegemonic Construction of Asian American and Black Relationships on TV Medical Dramas Howard Journal of Communications Volume 23, Issue 3 (2012) pages 253-271 DOI: 10.1080/10646175.2012.695637 Myra Washington, Assistant Professor of Communication & Journalism University of New Mexico This article examines the representations of Black and Asian interracial relationships on prime-time television dramas, ER…

  • Family Secrets by Deborah Cohen: review The Telegraph 2013-01-29 Judith Flanders Judith Flanders delves into Deborah Cohen’s ‘Family Secrets‘ As former News of the World journalist Paul McMullan put it so memorably at the Leveson Inquiry, “Privacy is for paedos”. In part, this was no more than a tabloid journalist using words carelessly. If he…

  • Harry L. Carrico, Virginia Supreme Court justice, dies at 96 The Washington Post 2013-01-28 Martin Weil Harry L. Carrico, who sat for 42 years on the Virginia Supreme Court and wrote a decision on interracial marriage that was overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court in what was regarded as a civil rights milestone, died Sunday…

  • When Half is Whole: Understanding Mixed Race Identities Stanford University, Cypress North Tresidder Union 459 Lagunita 2013-02-01, 12:00 PST (Local Time) Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Consulting Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine & Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity will discuss identity development in persons of mixed racial and national backgrounds.  This topic has particular appeal to…

  • I think it’s important for everyone to know that neither racism nor race are stable or natural. Racism metastasizes and changes over time, changing the ways that race is thought about and implemented in the US. For the last few decades, the Census has been one way to try to observe and track the symptoms…