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  • Brown Man and Fiancee Can Not Get Knot Tied

    Brown Man and Fiancee Can Not Get Knot Tied San Francisco Call Volume 107, Number 106 (1910-03-16) page 3, column 5 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection Unfeeling Goldfield Sheriff Suggests a Hurried Departure GOLDFIELD, Nev., March 15.—George Masaki, a Japanese gardener, and Juliette S. Schwann, both of Los Angeles, were unable to get a judge…

  • Affirmative Action in Brazil: Slavery’s Legacy

    Affirmative Action in Brazil: Slavery’s Legacy The Economist Americas View: The Americas 2013-04-26 H.J. São Paulo TO SUM up recent research predicting a mixed-race future for humanity, biologist Stephen Stearns of Yale University turns to an already intermingled nation. In a few centuries, he says, we will all “look like Brazilians”. Brazil shares with the…

  • Miscegenation: Wedded Bliss Denied to Jap.

    Miscegenation: Wedded Bliss Denied to Jap. Los Angeles Daily Mirror 1910-03-16/1910-03-17 Seeks to Marry Los Angeles Woman in Nevada. Gets License, But Finally Surrenders It. Couple Get Cold Shoulders in Two Cities. (By Direct Wire to the Times) GOLDFIELD (Nev.) March 16.—[Exclusive Dispatch.] George Masaki, describing himself as a Japanese gardener, accompanied by Juliette Schwan.…

  • Are the Tsarnaevs White?

    Are the Tsarnaevs White? The Daily Beast 2013-04-24 Peter Beinart, Senior Political Writer and Associate Professor of Journalism City University of New York also Editor-in-chief Open Zion In a word, yes. But why is this so hard for Americans to grasp? Peter Beinart on our country’s long track record of conflating religion and race. The…

  • Racial Theories in Context (Second Edition)

    Racial Theories in Context (Second Edition) Cognella 2013 224 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60927-056-8 Edited by: Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine This book presents a critical framework for understanding how and why race matters — past, present, and future. The readings trace the historical…

  • Race and Ethnic Relations in the Twenty-First Century: History, Theory, Institutions, and Policy

    Race and Ethnic Relations in the Twenty-First Century: History, Theory, Institutions, and Policy Cognella 2011 436 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-93555-160-7 Edited by: Rashawn Ray, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Maryland, College Park This book examines the major theoretical and empirical approaches regarding race/ethnicity. Its goal is to continue to place race and ethnic relations…

  • Loving in Virginia: A teacher’s work brings new life to an old case.

    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…

  • Of Mongrels and Men: The Shared Ideology of Anti-Miscegenation Law, Chinese Exclusion, and Contemporary American Neo-Nativism

    Of Mongrels and Men: The Shared Ideology of Anti-Miscegenation Law, Chinese Exclusion, and Contemporary American Neo-Nativism bepress Legal Series Working Paper 458 2005-02-16 Geoffrey A. Neri, Associate Miller Barondess, LLP Table of Contents I. INTRODUCTION II. BIRTH OF THE “ABOMINATION”: THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANTI-MISCEGENATION LAW A. Origins and Early History B. Anti-Miscegenation Ideology 1. Monogenism…

  • The Barber of Natchez

    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…

  • The Perils of Passing: The McCarys of Omaha

    This article presents various aspects of light-skinned black people “passing” for whites by examining the 1919 case of Francis Patrick Dwyer’s suit to annul his marriage to Clara McCary Dwyer after becoming suspicious that their new baby boy had Negro blood. While Dwyer was correct, he failed to win his suit, and his wife was…