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  • So, What Are You… Anyway?: 2013 Conference on Multiracial Identity

    So, What Are You… Anyway?: 2013 Conference on Multiracial Identity Hosted by the Harvard College Half-Asian People’s Association Harvard University 2013-04-05 through 2013-04-06 The Harvard Half-Asian People’s Association will host its fifth annual conference on mixed-race politics and identity issues, “So…What Are You, Anyway?” (SWAYA) on Friday, April 5, 2013 and Saturday, April 6, 2013…

  • Hapa Japan 2013

    Hapa Japan 2013 Los Angeles, California 2013-04-02 through 2013-04-06 A free Festival Celebrating Mixed-Race and Mixed-Roots Japanese People and Culture! Come join us at Hapa Japan 2013 from April 2-6, 2013 in Los Angeles for a concert featuring emerging hapa artists, a comedy night at East West Players, readings by award-winning authors, a historical exhibit…

  • America’s Oldest Negro Community

    Gouldtown traces it’s history back 250 years, began with an interracial marriage

  • In Pursuit of Freedom: Slave Law and Emancipation in Louisville and Jefferson County, Kentucky

    In Pursuit of Freedom: Slave Law and Emancipation in Louisville and Jefferson County, Kentucky The Filson Club History Quarterly July 2002 pages 287-325 J. Blaine Hudson (1950-2013), Professor of Pan-African Studies University of Louisville The lives of both free and enslaved African-Americans were constrained to varying degrees by the powerful and paradoxical role of race…

  • The African American Experience in Antebellum Cabell County, Virginia/West Virginia, 1810-1865

    The African American Experience in Antebellum Cabell County, Virginia/West Virginia, 1810-1865 Ohio Valley History Filson Historical Society Volume 11, Number 3, Fall 2011 pages 3-23 Cicero M. Fain III, Assistant Professor of History College of Southern Maryland Located on the Ohio River in western Virginia, adjacent to southeastern Ohio and eastern Kentucky, antebellum Cabell County…

  • Bewildered in Boston

    Bewildered in Boston HiLobrow 2011-11-12 Joshua Glenn, Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief Fanny Howe isn’t part of the local literary canon. But her seven novels about interracial love and utopian dreaming offer a rich social history of Boston in the 1960s and ’70s. [This essay first appeared in The Boston Globe’s IDEAS section, on March 7, 2004.]…

  • 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 Colour of Beauty

    The Colour of Beauty National Film Board of Canada 2010 00:16:50 Elizabeth St. Philip Renee Thompson is trying to make it as a top fashion model in New York. She’s got the looks, the walk and the drive. But she’s a black model in a world where white women represent the standard of beauty. Agencies…

  • The Myths of Transcending Race and Post-Racialism

    The Myths of Transcending Race and Post-Racialism EthicsDaily.com 2008-11-11 Wendell Griffen, Visiting Professor of Law William H. Bowen School of Law University of Arkansas, Little Rock Rather than speaking about a color-blind or “post-racial” society, the pundits and other observers of the Obama election should hope that it marks a society committed to “post-racism.” Barack…

  • The Future of the Colored Race

    The Future of the Colored Race North American Review Boston, Massachusetts Number 142 (May 1886) pages 437-440 Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) It is quite impossible, at this early date, to say with any decided emphasis what the future of the colored people will be. Speculations of that kind, thus far, have only reflected the mental bias…