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

2012-05-02

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…
How Scuffletown Became Indian Country: Political Change and Transformations in Indian identity in Robeson County, North Carolina, 1865-1956

2012-05-02

How Scuffletown Became Indian Country: Political Change and Transformations in Indian identity in Robeson County, North Carolina, 1865-1956 University of Washington 2008 267 pages Publication Number: AAT 3328369 ISBN: 9780549817246 Anna Bailey A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy According to census reports, there were no…
Cultural Reconstruction: Nation, Race, and the Invention of the American Magazine, 1830-1915

2012-05-02

Cultural Reconstruction: Nation, Race, and the Invention of the American Magazine, 1830-1915 University of Maryland 2003-12-19 504 pages Reynolds J. Scott-Childress, Assistant Professor of History New Paltz, State University of New York Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree…
BLACK, TRIGUEÑO, WHITE…? Shifting Racial Identification among Puerto Ricans

2012-05-02

BLACK, TRIGUEÑO, WHITE…? Shifting Racial Identification among Puerto Ricans Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 2, Issue 2 (2005) pages 267-285 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X05050186 Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Research Associate Center for Puerto Rican Studies Hunter College, City University of New York The use of U.S.-oriented racial categories in the 2000 decennial census conducted by…
Brian Bantum Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

2012-05-02

Brian Bantum 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 254: Brian Bantum When: Wednesday, 2012-05-02, 21:00Z (17:00 EDT, 14:00 PDT) Brian Bantum, Associate Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific…
Authors Probe Roots of U.S. Far Right

2012-05-01

A bumper crop of works on influential early 20th century American racists, fascists and eugenicists has been hitting the bookshelves in 2009. Two of the most interesting are on Madison Grant (1865-1937), perhaps the most important conservationist of his time and so pernicious a racist and anti-Semite that he helped inspire Hitler’s policies, and Lawrence…
“Which box am I?”: Towards a Culturally Grounded, Contextually Meaningful Method of Racial and Ethnic Categorization in Puerto Rico

2012-05-01

“Which box am I?”: Towards a Culturally Grounded, Contextually Meaningful Method of Racial and Ethnic Categorization in Puerto Rico Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey August 2009 59 pages Isar P. Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Research Associate Center for Puerto Rican Studies Hunter College,…
The lessons of slavery: Discourses of slavery, mestizaje, and blanqueamiento in an elementary school in Puerto Rico

2012-05-01

The lessons of slavery: Discourses of slavery, mestizaje, and blanqueamiento in an elementary school in Puerto Rico American Ethnologist Volume 35 Number 1 (February 2008) pages 115-135 DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00009.x Isar P. Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Mariolga Reyes Cruz Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Mariluz Franco-Ortiz…
“A Class of People Neither Freemen nor Slaves”: From Spanish to American Race Relations in Florida, 1821-1861

2012-05-01

“A Class of People Neither Freemen nor Slaves”: From Spanish to American Race Relations in Florida, 1821-1861 Journal of Social History Volume 26, Number 3 (Spring, 1993) pages 587-609 Daniel L. Schafer, Professor of History emeritus University of North Florida This essay examines the status of free blacks in Florida, focusing on the transition from…
Frau Doktor Nancy Stafford of Georgia: From Slave to Physician

2012-05-01

Frau Doktor Nancy Stafford of Georgia: From Slave to Physician The African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter March 2009 ISSN: 1933-8651 95 pages Mary R. Bullard Tracy Moxhay Castle Chapter 1 In 1850 a cotton planter named Robert Stafford fathered a daughter (later named Cornelia) by a woman named “Juda.” Three years later Juda bore him a…

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