Category: United States

  • Is ruling in the genes? All presidents bar one are directly descended from a medieval English king The Daily Mail London, England, United Kingdom 2012-08-04 Snejana Farberov What do Barack Obama, Thomas Jefferson, George W. Bush and the other past U.S. presidents have in common? Besides holding the coveted title of commander-in-chief, it appears that…

  • “Turning Up Their Noses at the Colonel”: Eastern Aristocracy, Western Democracy, and Richard Mentor Johnson Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Volume 111, Number 4, Autumn 2013 pages 525-561 DOI: 10.1353/khs.2014.0022 Miles Smith Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas In February 1849, the Kentucky legislature debated who would represent the state and fill the open…

  • Help Out a New Study Looking at Sharing Preferences for Biracial Children! Tufts University 2014-02-06 Sarah Gaither, M.S. Social Psychology Ph.D. Candidate Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts Do you have a child (age 3-8 years) that is either biracial Black/White or biracial Asian/White and live in the Boston area? We have a new study looking at…

  • ‘Mixed’ [Watson Review] Inside Higher Ed 2014-01-31 Andrea Watson Garrod, Andrew, Christina Gómez, Robert Kilkenny, Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013). 208 pages. Mixed (Cornell University Press) is a collection of 12 autobiographical essays written by college students who identify as multiracial. Unlike most books that focus on…

  • “Mixed” presents engaging and incisive first-person experiences of what it is like to be multiracial in what is supposedly a postracial world. Bringing together twelve essays by college students who identify themselves as multiracial, this book considers what this identity means in a reality that occasionally resembles the post-racial dream of some and at other…

  • 12 Beautiful Portraits Of Black Identity Challenging the “One-Drop” Rule PolicyMic New York, New York 2014-02-06 Amirah Mercer What are you?” they’d ask, head tilted and eyes squinted. “Black,” I’d reply. “No … but like, what else are you? I know it’s not all black.” So went a typical interrogation by my peers as a…

  • The Young White Faces of Slavery The New York Times 2014-01-30 Mary Niall Mitchell, Joseph Tregle Professor of Early American History University of New Orleans For Northern readers scanning the Jan. 30, 1864, issue of Harper’s Weekly for news from the South, a large engraving on page 69 brought the war home in an unexpected…

  • Lecture: Evolutionary Versus Racial Medicine: Why It Matters Wake Forest University Broyhill Auditorium in Farrell Hall 1834 Wake Forest Road Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27106 Thursday, 2014-02-06, 19:00 EST (Local Time) Dr. Joseph L. Graves Jr., Associate Dean for Research, Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering, North Carolina A&T State University & UNC-Greensboro, will discuss the…

  • Barack Hussein Obama, or, The Name of the Father The Scholar & Feminist Online Barnard Center for Research on Women Barnard College, New York, New York Issue 7.2 (Spring 2009) Tavia Nyong’o, Associate Professor of Performance Studies New York University To name, to give names that it will on occasion be forbidden to pronounce, such…

  • New Orleans After the Civil War: Race, Politics, and a New Birth of Freedom by Justin A. Nystrom (review) Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Volume 111, Number 4, Autumn 2013 pages 617-619 DOI: 10.1353/khs.2014.0023 Aaron Astor, Associate professor of History Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee Nystrom, Justin A., New Orleans after the Civil War: Race,…