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  • Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, AD 1933-1940

    Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, AD 1933-1940 Random House 1999 (Originally Published: 1931) 208 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-375-75380-0 George S. Schuyler (1895-1977) Introduction by Ishmael Reed What would happen to the race problem in America if black people turned white?…

  • Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey 2012 Annual Convention

    Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey 2012 Annual Convention What is the Black German Experience? History, Performance Popular & Visual Cultures Barnard College, Columbia University New York, New York 2012-08-10 through 2012-08-11 Building on the success of the inaugural 2011 conference, the second annual convention of the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey…

  • The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States (review)

    The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States (review) Callaloo Volume 35, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 548-551 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2012.0030 Daynali Flores-Rodriguez, Adjunct Professor of Spanish Inter-American University of Puerto Rico Jiménez Román, Miriam, and Juan Flores, eds. The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States. Durham: Duke UP, 2010. Published a…

  • Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family’s Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders

    Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family’s Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders Penguin Press December 2002 432 pages Paperback ISBN 9780142001035 Mark Perry A story of race consciousness and the fight for equality told through the lives of one extraordinary American family In the late 1820s Sarah and Angelina Grimké traded their elite…

  • Indigenous Nationalities and the Mestizo Dilemma

    Indigenous Nationalities and the Mestizo Dilemma Indian Country Today Media Network 2012-07-24 Duane Champagne, Professor of Sociology University of California, Los Angeles Mestizo. Métis. Mixed bloods. Though clearly different, all these terms are used to racially classify people with Indian ancestry. However, the definitions vary—and none is wholly satisfactory.   Part of the problem is…

  • The Free Negro Family: A Study of Family Origins Before the Civil War

    A class of free Negroes existed in America almost from the time that they were first introduced into the Virginia colony in 1619. Contrary to popular belief, the free class may even be said to be prior in origin to the slave class, since the first Negroes brought to America, did not have the status…

  • Shades of Passing (AAS 340 / ENG 391 / AMS 340)

    Shades of Passing (AAS 340 / ENG 391 / AMS 340) Princeton University Fall 2012-2013 Anne A. Cheng, Professor of English and African American Studies This course studies the trope of passing in 20th century American literary and cinematic narratives in an effort to re-examine the crisis of identity that both produces and confounds acts…

  • Biography of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967

    Biography of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967 Edwin Mellen Press 2002 248 pages ISBN 10:  0-7734-7088-3; ISBN 13:  978-0-7734-7088-0 John Chandler Griffin, Distinguished Professor Emeritus University of South Carolina, Lancaster This comprehensive biography of writer Jean Toomer, known as the Herald of the Harlem Renaissance, uses previously untapped sources, including lengthy meetings with Toomer’s widow…

  • The Negro in Washington: A Study in Race Amalgamation

    The chief interest of the author in the Negro problem has centered about the matter of racial intermixture—the Mulatto problem—and most of his writings have had to do with this evil.

  • Is Obama Now Black (Enough) Because He’s White?

    Is Obama Now Black (Enough) Because He’s White? The Huffington Post 2012-08-02 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University With the November election less than 100 days away, the Obama campaign continues to come up against questions about the president’s racial identity. Most recently, reports that the president is “passing,” or claiming that he’s representing…