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  • Writing the South through the Self: Explorations in Southern Autobiography

    Writing the South through the Self: Explorations in Southern Autobiography University of Georgia Press 2011-05-01 246 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-3767-8 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-3767-8 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-3968-9 John C. Inscoe, Albert B. Saye Professor and University Professor of History University of Georgia Using autobiography as an invaluable means for understanding southern history Drawing…

  • Nineteenth-Century New Orleans and a Carnival of Women

    Nineteenth-Century New Orleans and a Carnival of Women University of Florida 2006 72 pages Ragan Wicker A Thesis Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts The Carnival in New Orleans is historically the largest and longest annual public ritual…

  • Elizabeth Warren’s Birther Moment

    Elizabeth Warren’s Birther Moment The New York Times 2012-05-04 Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University If you are 1/32 Cherokee and your grandfather has high cheekbones, does that make you Native American? It depends. Last Friday, Republicans in Massachusetts questioned the racial ancestry of Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic Senate candidate. Her opponent,…

  • Elizabeth Warren says she’s Native American. So she is.

    Elizabeth Warren says she’s Native American. So she is. The Washington Post 2012-05-04 David Treuer Suddenly many Americans wonder what it means that Elizabeth Warren, who is vying for Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown’s U.S. Senate seat, has identified herself as having Cherokee and Delaware Indian heritage. The claim wasn’t sudden, but the furor is. Some…

  • Amy Locklear Hertel to Head American Indian Center at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Amy Locklear Hertel to Head American Indian Center at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Indian Country Today 2012-04-29 Tanya Lee Amy Locklear Hertel, newly-selected director of the American Indian Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was admonished by her grandmother to pursue her education. “Grandmother told me to get…

  • Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White

    When Alice Jones, a former nanny, married Leonard Rhinelander in 1924, she became the first black woman to be listed in the Social Register as a member of one of New York’s wealthiest families. Once news of the marriage became public, a scandal of race, class, and sex gripped the nation—and forced the couple into…

  • Are you ‘diverse’?

    Are you ‘diverse’? The Boston Globe 2012-05-05 Dante Ramos, Deputy Editorial Page Editor In the mid-’90s, around the time Elizabeth Warren’s name was appearing on a list of minority law professors, I was applying for entry-level reporting jobs at dozens of newspapers. In a few cases — one of which involved a summer job at…

  • 4 Years Later, Race Is Still Issue for Some Voters

    4 Years Later, Race Is Still Issue for Some Voters The New York Times 2012-05-03 Sabrina Tavernise STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — This is the land of die-hard Democrats — mill workers, coal miners and union members. They have voted party line for generations, forming a reliable constituency for just about any Democrat who decides to run…

  • Cultural Inversion and the One-Drop Rule: An Essay on Biology, Racial Classification, and the Rhetoric of Racial Transcendence

    In this article, my thesis is simple. If racial caste has been upended by changes in legal rules that created a hierarchical racial structure, its demise also has been hastened by the use of symbols, a strategy of cultural inversion with respect to the meaning of race.

  • Marcia Dawkins, Author of “Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing” on Mixed Race Radio

    Marcia Dawkins, Author of “Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing” on Mixed Race Radio Mixed Race Radio Blogtalkradio 2012-05-02, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Marcia Dawkins’ book, Clearly Invisible and the Color of Cultural Identity (Baylor University Press, 2012), is the first to connect racial passing and classical…