Category: United States

  • Black Mormons and the Politics of Identity The New York Times 2012-05-22 Susan Saulny SALT LAKE CITY — When Marguerite Driessen, a professor here, entered Brigham Young University in the early 1980s, she was the first black person many Mormon students had ever met, and she spent a good bit of her college time debunking…

  • Bordering Community: Reclaiming Ambiguity as a Transgressive Landscape of Knowledge Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work Volume 27, Number 2 (May 2012) pages 167-179 DOI: 10.1177/0886109912443957 Kimberly D. Hudson School of Social Work University of Washington, Seattle Critically investigating the concept of community, this article explores some of the ideological and epistemological frameworks that…

  • Lecturer Hettie V. Williams to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (Founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #257: Hettie V. Williams When: Wednesday, 2012-05-23, 21:00Z (17:00 EDT, 14:00 PDT) Hettie V. Williams,…

  • A Dissertation submitted to the Department of American Literature and Culture, School of English, Faculty of Philosophy of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.

  • The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom-Seeking People University Press of Florida 1996-09-14 352 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-1451-7 Kenneth W. Porter, Professor of History Emeritus University of Oregon Edited by: Alcione M. Amos, Librarian Thomas P. Senter, M.D. This story of a remarkable people, the Black Seminoles, and their charismatic leader,…

  • Black Indian Slave Narratives John F. Blair, Publisher 2004 200 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-89587-298-2 Patrick Minges Few people realize that Native Americans were enslaved right alongside the African Americans in this country. Fewer still realize that many Native Americans owned African Americans and Native Americans from other tribes. Recently, historians have determined that of the…

  • (ANT/NAS 493): Mixed Blood: Looking at the Relationship Between Africans and Native Americans Creighton University Omaha, Nebraska Fall 2005 Rev. Raymond A. Bucko, S.J., Professor of Anthropology In this course the relationship between Africans and Native Americans will be explored.  “Africans and Native Americans worked as slaves and as free men together.  Both groups played important…

  • Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2007 250 pages Anne Pollock, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Culture Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Submitted to the Program in Science, Technology and Society In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the…

  • “Racially-Tailored” Medicine Unraveled American University Law Review Volume 55, Number 2 (December 2005) pages 395-452 Sharona Hoffman, Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Associate Director of the Law-Medicine Center Case Western Reserve University School of Law Table of Contents Introduction I. “Race-Based” Research and Therapeutic Practices A. The Story of BiDil B. “Race-Based” Research…

  • The Vanishing American Negro The American Mercury Volume LXIV, Number 278 (February 1947) pages 133-139 Ralph Linton (1893-1953), Professor of Anthropolgy Yale University In the question period following any talk on minority problems, someone invariably brings up the query, “What do anthropologists consider to be the long range solution of the Negro problem?” Though I…