Category: Articles

  • The African American Experience in Antebellum Cabell County, Virginia/West Virginia, 1810-1865 Ohio Valley History Filson Historical Society Volume 11, Number 3, Fall 2011 pages 3-23 Cicero M. Fain III, Assistant Professor of History College of Southern Maryland Located on the Ohio River in western Virginia, adjacent to southeastern Ohio and eastern Kentucky, antebellum Cabell County…

  • Bewildered in Boston HiLobrow 2011-11-12 Joshua Glenn, Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief Fanny Howe isn’t part of the local literary canon. But her seven novels about interracial love and utopian dreaming offer a rich social history of Boston in the 1960s and ’70s. [This essay first appeared in The Boston Globe’s IDEAS section, on March 7, 2004.]…

  • The Barber of Natchez National Park Service Natchez: National Historical Park, Mississippi 2012-07-19 Timothy Van Cleave, Park Ranger Natchez National Historical Park The Life of William Johnson Known as the “barber” of Natchez, William Johnson began his life as a slave. His freedom at age eleven followed that of his mother Amy and his sister…

  • Mixing Race: The Kong Sing Brothers and Australian Sport Australian Historical Studies Volume 39, Issue 3 (2008) pages 338-355 DOI: 10.1080/10314610802263323 Gary Osmond, Lecturer School of Human Movement Studies University of Queensland Marie-Louise McDermott Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia Little research exists on the participation of Chinese in Australian sport in the colonial or…

  • ‘Una Raza, Dos Etnias’: The Politics Of Be(com)ing/Performing ‘Afropanameño’ Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Volume 3, Issue 2, 2008 DOI: 10.1080/17442220802080519 pages 123-147 Renée Alexander Craft, Assistant Professor of Communications Studies University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill This article analyzes 20th-century black identity in Panamá by examining how two distinct points on a spectrum…

  • The Myths of Transcending Race and Post-Racialism EthicsDaily.com 2008-11-11 Wendell Griffen, Visiting Professor of Law William H. Bowen School of Law University of Arkansas, Little Rock Rather than speaking about a color-blind or “post-racial” society, the pundits and other observers of the Obama election should hope that it marks a society committed to “post-racism.” Barack…

  • The Future of the Colored Race North American Review Boston, Massachusetts Number 142 (May 1886) pages 437-440 Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) It is quite impossible, at this early date, to say with any decided emphasis what the future of the colored people will be. Speculations of that kind, thus far, have only reflected the mental bias…

  • The fascist who ‘passed’ for white The Guardian 2007-04-04 Gary Younge, Feature Writer and Columnist Lawrence Dennis was a leading light in the American fascist movement of the 1930s. He was a fan of Hitler and a self-avowed anti-semite. Now a new book reveals that he was actually black—although even his wife didn’t know. Gary…

  • Beginnings of Miscegenation of Whites and Blacks The Journal of Negro History Volume 3, Number 4 (October 1918) pages 336-453 Carter G. Woodson, Founder Although science has uprooted the theory, a number of writers are loath to give up the contention that the white race is superior to others, as it is still hoped that…

  • Blackness Is The Fulcrum RaceFiles: On Race and Racism in our Politics and Daily Lives 2012-05-04 Scot Nakagawa, Senior Partner ChangeLab I’m often asked why I’ve focused so much more on anti-black racism than on Asians over the years. Some suggest I suffer from internalized racism. That might well be true since who doesn’t suffer…