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  • Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World

    The book covers the gamut of inter-ethnic experiences throughout the Portuguese-speaking world, from the sixteenth century to the present day, integrating contributions from history, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, literary, and cultural studies. It offers a radical updating of both empirical data and methodologies, and aims to contribute to current debates on racism and ethnic relations…

  • Virginia’s Caroline County, ‘Symbolic of Main Street USA’

    Virginia’s Caroline County, ‘Symbolic of Main Street USA’ The Washington Post 2012-02-10 Carol Morello Bowling Green, Va. — Only a few easily overlooked markers note the importance of Mildred and Richard Loving in Caroline County, where five decades ago the sheriff rousted the white man and his black bride from their bed and carted them…

  • American Chiaroscuro: The Status and Definition of Mulattoes in the British Colonies

    American Chiaroscuro: The Status and Definition of Mulattoes in the British Colonies The William and Mary Quarterly Third Series, Volume 19, Number 2 (April, 1962) pages 183-200 Winthrop D. Jordan (1931-2007) The word mulatto is not frequently used in the United States. Americans generally reserve it for biological contexts, because for social purposes a mulatto…

  • Black, yellow, (honorary) white or just plain South African?: Chinese South Africans, identity and affirmative action

    Black, yellow, (honorary) white or just plain South African?: Chinese South Africans, identity and affirmative action Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa Number 77 (2011) pages 107-121 DOI: 10.1353/trn.2011.0043 Yoon Jung Park, Senior Researcher in the Centre for Sociological Research Humanities Research Village University of Johannesburg On 18 June 2008, while the country was still…

  • Film retells Lovings’ love story

    Film retells Lovings’ love story The Free Lance-Star Fredericksburg, Virginia 2012-02-06 Jonas Beals Mildred and Richard Loving were probably the last people you would expect to make legal history, but in 1967 they won a U.S. Supreme Court case that nullified laws against interracial marriage in Virginia and the 15 other states that still banned…

  • ‘The Loving Story’ to premiere in Caroline County

    ‘The Loving Story’ to premiere in Caroline County The Free Lance-Star Fredericksburg, Virginia 2012-02-04 Jonas Beals Caroline County will get the red-carpet treatment Saturday evening. HBO, Comcast and the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia are hosting an invitation-only screening of the new HBO documentary “The Loving Story” at the Caroline County Community Services Center.…

  • Reflections: An Anthology of African-American Philosophy, 1st Edition

    Reflections: An Anthology of African-American Philosophy, 1st Edition Cengage Learning 2000 464 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 0534573932  ISBN-13: 9780534573935 Edited by: James Montmarquet, Professor of Philosophy Tennessee State University William Hardy, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion Tennessee State University This anthology provides the instructor with a sufficient quantity, breadth, and diversity of materials to be…

  • Race, Forgetting, and the Law

    Race, Forgetting, and the Law The Atlantic 2010-07-30 Sara Mayeux Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America is a tour-de-force of archival research, bringing to light countless criminal prosecutions, civil cases, and bureaucratic decisions through which miscegenation laws were enforced not just in the South but throughout the…

  • Art Review: A Life of Marital Bliss (Segregation Laws Aside)

    Art Review: A Life of Marital Bliss (Segregation Laws Aside) The New York Times 2012-01-26 Martha Schwendener What’s the difference between a political activist and a political hero? It’s often a matter of intention versus accident. Within the civil rights movement Rosa Parks is seen as an activist: She trained at the Highlander Folk School…

  • Legislation eradicates Dominican “Indians”

    Legislation eradicates Dominican “Indians” Dominican Today 2011-11-11 Santo Domingo.—Mulatto, black and white will be the only colors among Dominicans and will be stated thus in the citizens ID cards (cedula), effectively eradicating the nation’s “Indians.” The bill “Dominican Republic Electoral Law Reform” states that in the master file of cedulas the color of Dominicans will…