Category: Articles

  • Loving Indian Style: Maintaining Racial Caste and Tribal Sovereignty Through Sexual Assimilation Wisconsin Law Review Volume 2007, Number 2 (2007-01-12) pages 410-461 Carla D. Pratt, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Educational Equity; Nancy J. LaMont Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law Pennsylvania State University I. Introduction When the United States Supreme Court struck down…

  • Negro History, Part X: Miscegenation in America Ebony Magazine October 1962 pages 94-104 (Digitized by Google) Lerone Bennett, Jr., Executive Editor The material in this chapter on miscegenation during the slavery period is based largely on James Hugo Johnston’s doctorial dissertation at the University of Chicago, Race Relations in Virginia and Miscegenation in the South,…

  • Toward a Racial Abyss: Eugenics, Wickliffe Draper, and the Origins of the Pioneer Fund Journal of History of the Behavioral Sciences Volume 38, Issue 3, (Summer 2002) pages 259–283 DOI: 10:1002/jhbs.10063 Michael G. Kenny, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia The Pioneer Fund was created in 1937 “to conduct or…

  • Eugenic Feminisms in Late Nineteenth-Century America Genders: Presenting Innovative Work In the Arts, Ahumanities and Social Theories Number 31 (2000) 98 paragraphs Stephanie Athey, Associate Professor of English Lasell College, Newton, Massachusetts Reading Race in Victoria Woodhull, Frances Willard, Anna Julia Cooper and Ida B. Wells  This essay examines the American intersections of eugenic discourse…

  • A Transnational Temperance Discourse? William Wells Brown, Creole Civilization, and Temperate Manners The Journal of Transnational American Studies Volume 3, Issue 1 (2011) Article 16 27 pages Carole Lynn Stewart, Assistant Professor of English University of Maryland, Baltimore County In the nineteenth century, temperance movements provided the occasion for a transnational discourse. These conversations possessed…

  • Daphne Grace in Conversation with Keith A. Russell Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 8, Issue 1 – Bahamian Literature (2011-04-22) Article 14 Daphne Grace Keith A. Russell, Adjunct Professor The College of The Bahamas, Northern Campus Daphne Grace in Conversation with Keith A. Russell, Freeport, Grand Bahama (27 August 2008) DG: You have written…

  • While racial passing seems outdated by today’s standards, and the very thought of a black person needing to pass for white actually smacks of racism, this essay repositions the importance of passing as a genre by looking at four key Hollywood films from the early-‘30s through the late-‘50s: two versions of “Imitation of Life” (John…

  • Group provides space for ‘racial Hybrids’ The University News A Student Voice of Saint Louis University Since 1921 2011-04-14 Sean Worley Black Student Alliance, Filipino Student Association, Indian Student Association and the list of groups oriented around race goes on. Although these student groups have a noticeable presence on campus, for some students, they just…

  • Stories of Biracial America The New York Times 2011-05-06 Polly Rosenwaike Barack Obama makes two appearances in Danzy Senna’s first story collection, “You Are Free”: in a photograph on an administrator’s desk at an exclusive preschool, and on the bumper sticker of a BMW. Seeing that BMW, the narrator of the story “Replacement Theory” observes,…

  • Man with a Cross: Hawkeye Was a “Half-Breed” Cooper Panel American Literature Association Conference San Diego, California May 1998 James Fenimore Cooper Society Barbara Mann, Lecturer of English University of Toledo Originally published in James Fenimore Cooper Society Miscellaneous Papers No. 10, August 1998 Natty Bumppo—Hawkeye of James Fenimore Cooper’s five Leather-Stocking Tales—is indelibly inscribed…