Category: United States

  • Malaga Island: A century of shame Maine Sunday Telegram 2012-05-20 Colin Woodard, Staff Writer A new exhibit at the Maine State Museum tells the story of the eviction of Malaga Island’s residents, one of the state’s most disgraceful official acts ever. AUGUSTA — A century ago this spring, Maine Gov. Frederick Plaisted oversaw the destruction…

  • Discovering the life of Afro-Germans The Philadelphia Inquirer 2012-06-06 Edward Colimore, Inquirer Staff Writer When she was growing up in Willingboro as the only child of Walter and Perrie Haymon, she felt like “a little princess.” She was the center of her parents’ lives, attended private school, and took piano and ballet lessons. But Wanda…

  • What I’ve learned from living with HIV The Melissa Harris-Perry Blog 2012-07-01 Macalester College Ed. note: This is a guest column by our guest today, Christopher MacDonald-Dennis, the Dean of Multicultural Life at Macalester College. Chris normally tweets this essay out every December 1 to commemorate World AIDS Day, but was kind enough to allow…

  • Racial Democracy and Intermarriage in Brazil and the United States The Latin Americanist Volume 55, Issue 3 (September 2011) pages 45–66 DOI: 10.1111/j.1557-203X.2011.01063.x Jack A. Draper III, Associate Professor of Portuguese University of Missouri “We see a blurring of the old lines.” —Michael Rosenfeld, Regional-Americanist sociologist “The maintenance of interracial barriers and the reproduction of…

  • A Case of Identity: Ethnogenesis of the New Houma Indians Ethnohistory Volume 48, Number 3 (Summer 2001) pages 473-494 DOI: 10.1215/00141801-48-3-473 Dave D. Davis University of Southern Maine Throughout the twentieth century, anthropologists and historians have regarded the Houma Indians of southern Louisiana as the descendants of the Houma Indians encountered along the Mississippi River…

  • The Family Jewell: A Metis History of San Juan Island and Puget Sound, by Dr. Katrina Jagodinsky San Juan Historical Museum 323 Price St. Friday Harbor, Washington Saturday, 2012-06-30, 18:00 PDT (Local Time) The history of Métis families (Native American and European ancestry) is like the mist that shrouds the San Juan Island chain: a…

  • From Edward Brooke to Barack Obama African American Political Success, 1966-2008 University of Missouri Press 2012 272 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8262-1977-0 Dennis Nordin In 2008, American history was forever changed with the election of Barack Obama, the United States’ first African American president. However, Obama was far from the first African American…

  • How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself The New York Times 2012-06-28 John Jeremiah Sullivan A poll of well over a hundred writers and critics, taken a few years back by Oxford American magazine, named William Faulkner’s “Absalom, Absalom!” the “greatest Southern novel ever written,” by a decisive margin —…

  • Tales of the Old Indian Territory and Essays on the Indian Condition University of Nebraska Press 2012 680 pages ISBN: 978-0-8032-3792-6 John Milton Oskison (1874-1947) Edited and with an introduction by Lionel Larré, Associate Professor of English Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3 At the beginning of the twentieth century, Indian Territory, which would eventually…

  • Slippery Language and False Dilemmas: The Passing Novels of Child, Howells, and Harper American Literature Volume 75, Number 4, December 2003 pages 813-841 Julie Cary Nerad, Associate Professor of English Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Conceived in slavery, gestated in racialist science, and bred in Jim Crow segregation, the U.S. race system calcified into a…