Category: Articles

  • The Growing Need for a National Eugenic Program Bios Volume 7, Number 3 (October, 1936) pages 176-187 Sue D. Comer Mississippi Stale College for Women This paper received second award in the 1936 undergraduate competition. There has been much discussion during the past half century concerning Eugenics. This discussion has not been limited to scientists…

  • Backing Barack Because He’s Black: Racially Motivated Voting in the 2008 Election Social Science Quarterly Volume 92, Issue 2, June 2011 pages 423–446 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2011.00776.x Ray Block Jr., Assistant Professor of Political Science/Public Administration University of Wisconsin, La Crosse Objective. If racial considerations influenced the outcome of the 2008 presidential election, then how did they…

  • Loving in Virginia: A teacher’s work brings new life to an old case. University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Newsletter February 2013 Caroline County, Virginia, 1958. Newlyweds Richard and Mildred Loving wake at 2 a.m. to the sound of their front door being kicked in. Before they are out of…

  • The Mulatto Murders Lily’s Son (1948) Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 8: Issue 1 (Bahamian Literature) (2011-04-22) Article 9 2 pages Nicolette Bethel, Assistant Professor of Sociology The College of the Bahamas 1. Irvin goes to calm a raging friend Irvin’s fishmeat skin gleamed white despite the dark, despite the shot that hung the…

  • The Rumpus Interview with Joe Mozingo The Rumpus 2013-03-04 Peter Orner I recently finished a powerful book about a journey to find the origin of a name. It’s called the The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African Warrior, His White Descendants, A Search for Family by Joe Mozingo. The book details Mozingo’s search for the…

  • MIT Scholar Vivek Bald uncovers forgotten history of South Asian immigrants’ New York City arrival New York Daily News 2013-01-17 Erica Pearson New book chronicles little-known story of Muslims from what’s now Pakistan and Bangladesh, who built a multiracial community in Harlem decades before they were legally allowed to immigrate to the U.S. Virtually all…

  • Nigeria’s dangerous skin whitening obsession   Al Jazeera 2013-04-06 Mohammed Adow Nigeria has the world’s highest percentage of women using skin lightening agents in the quest for “beauty”. Lagos, Nigeria – After carefully washing her face, legs and arms, Taiwo Solomon vigorously rubs cream over her body. She is meticulous and makes sure she covers…

  • Are Hapa White Asian Americans? Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu 2012-02-01 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Stanford University Some people seem to think hapa means white Asian American, even though it originally refers to Hawaiian mixtures and is not confined to hapa haole. I never had that impression myself, as one of my first hapa friends was Margo Okazawa-Rey and she…

  • Gouldtown traces it’s history back 250 years, began with an interracial marriage

  • In Pursuit of Freedom: Slave Law and Emancipation in Louisville and Jefferson County, Kentucky The Filson Club History Quarterly July 2002 pages 287-325 J. Blaine Hudson (1950-2013), Professor of Pan-African Studies University of Louisville The lives of both free and enslaved African-Americans were constrained to varying degrees by the powerful and paradoxical role of race…