Category: Biography

  • Mildred Loving The Economist 2008-05-15 Mildred Loving, law-changer, died on May 2nd, aged 68 The loved each other. That must have been why they decided to get their marriage certificate framed and to hang it up in the bedroom of their house. There was little else in the bedroom, save the bed. Certainly nothing worth…

  • 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…

  • Jamette Carnival and Afro-Caribbean Influences on the Work of Jean Rhys Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 3, Issue 2 (Fall 2005) 22 paragraphs ISSN 1547-7150 Cynthia Davis Most art critics would agree that since the Universal Exhibition of 1900 in Paris, African aesthetics have profoundly influenced twentieth century sculpture and painting. Literary critics have…

  • Martin de Porres Wikipedia Martin de Porres (December 9, 1579 – November 3, 1639) was a lay brother of the Dominican Order who was beatified in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI and canonized in 1962 by Pope John XXIII. He is the patron saint of mixed-race people and all those seeking interracial harmony.   He…

  • Jean Toomer and the Politics and Poetics of National Identity Contributions in Black Studies A Journal of African and Afro-American Studies Volume 7, Number 1 (1985-01-01) Article 3 24 pages Onita Estes-Hicks State University of New York, Old Westbury Jean Toomer’s place in thew world of letters rests on Cane, the author’s profound statement on…

  • Miscegenation Blues: Voices of Mixed Race Women is a stunning and long awaited collection of some of the most poignant writing by more than forty women of mixed racial heritage.

  • The Mysterious Portraitist Joshua Johnson Archives of American Art Journal Volume 36, Number 2 (1996) pages 2-7 Jennifer Bryan Robert Torchia The Maryland Historical Society’s Department of Manuscripts recently received three volumes of Baltimore County court chattel records—registers of personal property transactions such as mortgages, deeds of gift, powers of attorney, bills of sale, and…

  • Based largely on data collected from oral history interviews, this study examines the construction of triracial ethnoracial identities (African American-Caucasian-American Indian). Here in-depth narratives and analyses of two triracial family histories surface the complex, dynamic, and interactional social contingencies that act on individual and family psychologies to share ethnic identity; these processes are illustrative of…

  • BBC Two explores what it means to be mixed-race in Britain British Broadcasting Corporaton 2010-03-10 Mixed-Race Britain is put under the spotlight this autumn on BBC Two in a collection of revealing and compelling new programmes. Britain in 2011 has proportionately the largest mixed population in the Western world, but 100 years ago people of…