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  • Anti-Miscegenation Movement Columbus Enquirer-Sun Columbus, Georgia 1886-09-24 page 5, column 3 Source: Digital Library of Georgia Organization In Louisiana to Prevent the Intermarriage of Whites and Blacks New Orleans. September 20.—A practical movement has been inaugurated in Bossier parish, in this state, for the abolition of miscegenation. There have been during the past year or…

  • Intertextual Links: Reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man College Literature Volume 40, Number 1, Spring 2013 pages 121-138 DOI: 10.1353/lit.2013.0004 Robin Miskolcze, Associate Professor of English Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California Though literary critics of James Weldon Johnson’s 1912 The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man convincingly…

  • Yes We Can? White Racial Framing and the Obama Presidency, 2nd Edition Routledge 292 pages 2012-12-17 Pages: 296 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-64536-2 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-64538-6 Adia Harvey Wingfield, Assistant Professor of Sociology Georgia State University Joe Feagin, Ella C. McFadden Professor of Sociology Texas A & M University The first edition of this book offered one of…

  • Beyond Selma-to-Stonewall The New York Times 2013-01-27 By including gay rights in the arc of the struggle for civil rights — the road “through Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall” — President Obama linked his presidency to ending antigay discrimination and underscored the legal wrong of denying gay people the freedom to marry.  “Our journey…

  • With Obama, not a post-racial nation, but something more complex The Washington Post 2013-01-21 Marc Fisher, Staff Writer The huge oil painting propped up on a bridge table at 13th and F streets NW was arresting enough to stop people even as they hurried toward the Mall. There they were, heroes of black America, Malcolm…

  • (1)NE DROP: Fact, Fiction, or Fate? Drexel University James E. Marks Intercultural Center (Lower Level) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Monday, 2013-02-04, 17:00-19:00 EST (Local Time) Africana Studies and the Office of Equality & Diversity present (1)NE DROP: Fact, Fiction, or Fate? featuring Dr. Yaba Blay, artistic director of the (1)NE DROP PROJECT and assistant teaching professor of…

  • Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey Will Read Civil War Poems Jan. 30 The Library of Congress News Releases Washington, D.C. 2013-01-04 Press contact: Donna Urschel (202) 707-1639 Public contact: Robert Casper (202) 707-5394 U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey will read selections from her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection “Native Guard,” in commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the Civil…

  • Among Blacks, Pride Is Mixed With Expectations for Obama The New York Times 2013-01-20 Susan Saulny The Rev. Greggory L. Brown, a 59-year-old pastor of a small Lutheran church, committed himself to ministry and a life pursuing social justice on April 4, 1968 — the day the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was slain…

  • A Race Question: A Negro Man With a White Wife—Some Nice Points of Law—Indians Have Greater Nuptial Privileges. Columbus Enquirer-Sun Columbus, Georgia Saturday, 1886-11-20 page 8, columns 3-4 Source: Digital Library of Georgia A very interesting case, both as to the facts and the nice legal points involved, was tried this week at the circuit court…

  • The Effect of Parents’ Ethnic Socialization Practices on Ethnic Identity, Self-Esteem and Psychological Adjustment of Multi Ethnic Children in Malaysia World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Issue 72 (December 2012) pages 807-810 Chua Bee Seok Rosnah Ismail Jasmine Adela Mutang Shaziah Iqbal Nur Farhana Ardillah Aftar Alfred Chan Huan Zhi Ferlis Bin Bahari Lailawati…