Category: United States

  • Miscegenation Illustrated Columbus Daily Enquirer Columbus, Georgia 1865-10-27 page 2, column 3 Source: Digital Library of Georgia Extracts from a new Book of Travel, by an American Physician. The Mixture of Race in Peru. The aboriginal race was the Indian; and subsequently there came into the country the Spaniard, the negro, and more recently the…

  • Harry L. Carrico, Virginia Supreme Court justice, dies at 96 The Washington Post 2013-01-28 Martin Weil Harry L. Carrico, who sat for 42 years on the Virginia Supreme Court and wrote a decision on interracial marriage that was overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court in what was regarded as a civil rights milestone, died Sunday…

  • When Half is Whole: Understanding Mixed Race Identities Stanford University, Cypress North Tresidder Union 459 Lagunita 2013-02-01, 12:00 PST (Local Time) Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Consulting Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine & Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity will discuss identity development in persons of mixed racial and national backgrounds.  This topic has particular appeal to…

  • Anti-Miscegenation Movement Columbus Enquirer-Sun Columbus, Georgia 1886-09-24 page 5, column 3 Source: Digital Library of Georgia Organization In Louisiana to Prevent the Intermarriage of Whites and Blacks New Orleans. September 20.—A practical movement has been inaugurated in Bossier parish, in this state, for the abolition of miscegenation. There have been during the past year or…

  • Intertextual Links: Reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man College Literature Volume 40, Number 1, Spring 2013 pages 121-138 DOI: 10.1353/lit.2013.0004 Robin Miskolcze, Associate Professor of English Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California Though literary critics of James Weldon Johnson’s 1912 The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man convincingly…

  • Yes We Can? White Racial Framing and the Obama Presidency, 2nd Edition Routledge 292 pages 2012-12-17 Pages: 296 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-64536-2 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-64538-6 Adia Harvey Wingfield, Assistant Professor of Sociology Georgia State University Joe Feagin, Ella C. McFadden Professor of Sociology Texas A & M University The first edition of this book offered one of…

  • With Obama, not a post-racial nation, but something more complex The Washington Post 2013-01-21 Marc Fisher, Staff Writer The huge oil painting propped up on a bridge table at 13th and F streets NW was arresting enough to stop people even as they hurried toward the Mall. There they were, heroes of black America, Malcolm…

  • (1)NE DROP: Fact, Fiction, or Fate? Drexel University James E. Marks Intercultural Center (Lower Level) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Monday, 2013-02-04, 17:00-19:00 EST (Local Time) Africana Studies and the Office of Equality & Diversity present (1)NE DROP: Fact, Fiction, or Fate? featuring Dr. Yaba Blay, artistic director of the (1)NE DROP PROJECT and assistant teaching professor of…

  • Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey Will Read Civil War Poems Jan. 30 The Library of Congress News Releases Washington, D.C. 2013-01-04 Press contact: Donna Urschel (202) 707-1639 Public contact: Robert Casper (202) 707-5394 U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey will read selections from her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection “Native Guard,” in commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the Civil…

  • Among Blacks, Pride Is Mixed With Expectations for Obama The New York Times 2013-01-20 Susan Saulny The Rev. Greggory L. Brown, a 59-year-old pastor of a small Lutheran church, committed himself to ministry and a life pursuing social justice on April 4, 1968 — the day the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was slain…