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  • Masters and Slaves: ‘Sugar in the Blood,’ by Andrea Stuart

    Masters and Slaves: ‘Sugar in the Blood,’ by Andrea Stuart The New York Times 2013-03-29 Amy Wilentz Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire By Andrea Stuart, Illustrated. 353 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. On a trip to Paris, I recently had the same shocked realization that Andrea Stuart describes in her…

  • Will Personalized Medicine Challenge or Reify Categories of Race and Ethnicity?

    Will Personalized Medicine Challenge or Reify Categories of Race and Ethnicity? Virtual Mentor: American Medical Association Journal of Ethics Volume 14, Number 8 (August 2012) pages 657-663 Ramya Rajagopalan, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison Joan H. Fujimura, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology; Professor of Science and Technology Studies Robert F.…

  • A Missing Question Mark: The Unknown Henry Ossawa Tanner

    This article examines Henry Ossawa Tanner’s complex sense of his own racial identity. Tanner’s conflict was born of the fact that in his personal adult life he walked a fragile line between his whiteness and his blackness; in France, he systematically worked to remove race from the equation of his life. The author also identifies…

  • Generation Mixed and the One Love Club

    Generation Mixed and the One Love Club Gino Michael Pellegrini: Education, Amalgamation, Race, Class & Solidarity 2012-06-03 Gino Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California The popular media and specifically the Race Remixed series in the New York Times propagate the myth of multiracialism. According to this social myth, the increasing…

  • Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World by John D. Garrigus and Christopher Morris (review)

    Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World by John D. Garrigus and Christopher Morris (review) The Americas Volume 69, Number 4, April 2013 pages 532-533 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2013.0017 James Sidbury, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Humanities Rice University John D. Garrigus and Christopher Morris, eds., Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in…

  • The Mixed-Blood Racial Strain of Carmel, Ohio and Magoffin County, Kentucky

    The Mixed-Blood Racial Strain of Carmel, Ohio and Magoffin County, Kentucky Ohio Journal of Science Volume 50, Number 6 (November 1950) pages 281-290 Edward T. Price, Professor Emeritus of Geography University of Oregon A number of population groups of dark-skinned peoples, recognized as socially distinct in rural localities of eastern United States, are commonly assumed…

  • A Rising Voice: Afro-Latin Americans

    A Rising Voice: Afro-Latin Americans Miami Herald 2007-06-10 through 2007-06-24 In this series, the black experience is unveiled through a journey: to Nicaragua, where a quiet but powerful civil and cultural rights movement flickers while in neighboring Honduras, the black Garffuna community fights for cultural survival; to the Dominican Republic where African lineage is not…

  • Don Lemon: It only takes one drop

    Don Lemon: It only takes one drop Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-01-15 Don Lemon, Anchor CNN Newsroom This piece is part of a three-part series tied to the (1)ne Drop Project. (CNN) – For years, the woman on the left in the photograph below could not be…

  • Passing as Black? Some Initial Thoughts…

    Passing as Black? Some Initial Thoughts… brianbantum: theology, culture, teaching and life in-between 2010-12-17 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University Thomas Chatterton Williams has written an intriguing article highlighting recent trends of multiracial children “passing as black.” If I let myself go I will write a short book on this before I…

  • “La Negrita,” Queen of the Ticos: The Black Roots of Costa Rica’s Patron Saint

    “La Negrita,” Queen of the Ticos: The Black Roots of Costa Rica’s Patron Saint The Americas Volume 69, Number 3, January 2013 pages 323-355 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2013.0025 Russell Lohse, Assistant Professor of History Pennsylvania State University In sharp contrast to her mestizo and mulatto neighbors, Costa Rica is one of a handful of Latin American countries…