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  • Race, the Jamaican Body and Eugenics/Genomics: An Autobiographic Mediation

    Race, the Jamaican Body and Eugenics/Genomics: An Autobiographic Mediation Auto/Biography and Mediation 2010 pages 39-55 Edited by: Alfred Hornung, Professor of English and American Studies Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Written by: Eve Hawthorne, Professor of History Howard University Paul Vanouse, Associate Professor of Visual Studies The State University of New York, Buffalo Caribbean bodies are…

  • Oreo

    Oreo Northeastern University Press (now University Press of New England) 2000 (Originially published in 1974.) 224 pages 6 x 9″ Fran Ross Forward by Harryette Mullen This uproariously funny satire about relations between African Americans and Jews is as fresh and outrageous today as when it was first published in 1974. Born to a Jewish…

  • Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

    “Dreams from My Father” tells the story of Obama’s struggle to understand the forces that shaped him as the son of a black African father and white American mother—a struggle that takes him from the American heartland to the ancestral home of his great-aunt in the tiny African village of Alego.

  • Nowhere People

    Nowhere People Penguin Books Australia January 2005 300 pages Paperback ISBN-13:9780143001911 Henry Reynolds, Emeritus Associate Professor of History and Politics James Cook University, Australia ‘That’s how at six at night on 11 May 1928 I stopped being a Yanyuwa child and became a nowhere person… Motherless, cultureless and stuck in a government institution because my…

  • Ambiguous Ethnicity: Interracial Families in London

    In a society where race is a significant component of social identity and exerts an important influence on social relationships, the problems faced by couples who enter into ‘mixed’ marriages are especially difficult.

  • Race Passing and American Individualism

    Race Passing and American Individualism University of Massachusetts Press February 2003 176 pages Cloth ISBN: 1-55849-377-8 (Print on Demand) Kathleen Pfeiffer, Professor of English Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan A literary study of the ambiguities of racial identity in American culture In the literature of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, black characters who pass for…

  • Mulatto [Poem]

    Mulatto [Poem] 1927 Langston Hughes (1902-1967) I am your son, white man! Georgia dusk And the turpentine woods. One of the pillars of the temple fell. You are my son! Like Hell! The moon over the turpentine woods. The Southern night Full of stars, Great big yellow stars. What’s a body but a toy? Juicy…

  • Chapter One: Barbara Jordan: American Hero

    Chapter One: Barbara Jordan: American Hero New York Times 1998-12-13 Mary Beth Rogers Mary Beth Rogers, Barbara Jordan: American Hero, (New York: Bantam, 1998). BARBARA CHARLINE JORDAN was born February 21, 1936, the third daughter and last child of Benjamin Meredith and Arlyne Patten Jordan. The fortunes of Ben and Arlyne were good enough to…

  • Mixing Races: From Scientific Racism to Modern Evolutionary Ideas

    This book explores changing American views of race mixing in the twentieth century, showing how new scientific ideas transformed accepted notions of race and how those ideas played out on college campuses in the 1960s.

  • Mitsawokett to Bloomsbury: Archaeology and History of a Native-American Descendant Community in Central Delaware

    Mitsawokett to Bloomsbury: Archaeology and History of a Native-American Descendant Community in Central Delaware Chapter 5. A Larger Ethnic Community 2008 383 pages Delaware Department of Transportation Project 88-110-01 Federal Highway Administration Project F-NH-1003(13) Delaware Department of Transportation Archæological Series Number 154 Carolann Wicks, Secretary Original and redraft prepared by Edward F. Heite and Cara L.…