Category: United States

  • Mixed Blood Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South University of Georgia Press 2005-03-28 60 pages Illustrated, Trim size: 5.5 x 8.25 ISBN: 978-0-8203-2731-0 Theda Perdue, Atlanta Distinguished Term Professor of Southern Culture University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill On the southern frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European men—including traders, soldiers, and…

  • IndiVisible – African-Native American Lives in the Americas National Museum of the American Indian 4th Street and Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC 2009-11-09 through 2010-05-31 Comanche family, early 1900s Here is a family from the Comanche Nation located in southwestern Oklahoma. The elder man in Comanche traditional clothing is Ta-Ten-e-quer. His wife, Ta-Tat-ty, also wears…

  • Critical Whiteness Studies Symposium: Call for Papers Critical Whiteness Studies Symposium University of Iowa 2010-09-23 through 2010-09-24 Abstract Deadline: 2010-03-12 Keynote Speakers: David Roediger, Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Karyn McKinney, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Education, Human Development, & Social Sciences Penn State University, Altoona Abstract deadline…

  • 2010 African American Studies Symposium University of Texas at San Antonio 2010-04-16 The 3rd annual African American Studies Symposium is a one-day conference Friday, April 16, 2010, at the University of Texas at San Antonio. This year, the theme is ‘Politics and Black Popular Culture.’ We especially encourage papers on language, music, hair, art, film,…

  • Drawing Battle Lines Sarah Lawrence College Magazine Spring 2003: Who Are You Catherine McKinley[-Davis] was one of only a few thousand African-American and biracial children adopted by white couples in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Throughout her childhood and adolescence, her consciousness grew as she did. Her very identity—composed both of the whiteness and…

  • A Letter to My Father: Growing up Filipina and American University of Oklahoma Press 2008 184 pages 5.5″ x 8.5″ x 0″ 8 b&w illustrations, 2 maps Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8061-3909-8 Helen Madamba Mossman Going from the jungles of the wartime Philippines to the schoolyards of northwestern Oklahoma is no easy transition. For one twelve-year-old girl,…

  • Tragic Mulatto Girl Wonder: The paradoxical life of Philippa Duke Schuyler QBR The Black Book Review February/March 1996 Lise Funderburg Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler by Kathryn Talalay Oxford University Press (317 pp.) Hardcover ISBN 0-19-509608-8 As a child prodigy, pianist and composer, Philippa Duke Schuyler incited both awe and…

  • The first authorized biography of Philippa Schuyler, “Composition in Black and White” draws on previously unpublished letters and diaries to reveal an extraordinary and complex personality.

  • “Confounding the Color Line” is an essential, interdisciplinary introduction to the myriad relationships forged for centuries between Indians and Blacks in North America. Since the days of slavery, the lives and destinies of Indians and Blacks have been entwined-thrown together through circumstance, institutional design, or personal choice. Cultural sharing and intermarriage have resulted in complex…