Category: United States

  • Virginia’s Caroline County, ‘Symbolic of Main Street USA’ The Washington Post 2012-02-10 Carol Morello Bowling Green, Va. — Only a few easily overlooked markers note the importance of Mildred and Richard Loving in Caroline County, where five decades ago the sheriff rousted the white man and his black bride from their bed and carted them…

  • Impostors: EUST-235 Amherst College Spring 2012 Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture Deborah R. Dizard, Visiting Lecturer in European Studies An interdisciplinary exploration of the causes behind the social, racial, artistic, and political act—and art—of posing, passing, or pretending to be someone else. Blacks passing for whites, Jews passing for gentiles,…

  • José Vasconcelos: The Prophet of Race Rutgers University Press 2011-05-07 142 pages 5.5 x 8.5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-5063-3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5064 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-5104-3 Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Mexican educator and thinker José Vasconcelos is to Latinos what W.E.B. Du Bois is to African Americans—a…

  • Panel to discuss racism and medical issues The Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2012-02-10 Ariana Ricarte The topic of racism in health care, genetics and other medical issues will be the central point of discussion at a panel in De Neve Auditorium on Saturday [13:00-15:00 PST]. The panel, called “Race in Medicine: A…

  • Being Black The Barry Morgan Show CJAD, 800 AM Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2012-02-10 Barry Morgan, Host Yaba Blay, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Lafayette College Have you ever heard of the (1)ne Drop Project? I never had until I spoke with its pioneer, Yaba Blay, visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Lafayette College.  …

  • Charles Marsh recounts the formation and activities of The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. The Civil Rights Movement as Theological Drama The Project on Lived Theology University of Virginia Charles Marsh In 1956, a new organization appeared, predisposed to the same political concerns articulated by the Citizen’s Council, but now underwritten by the state legislature.  The…

  • Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860 McFarland 2012 [Originally Published by University of South Carolina press in 1985] 300 pages 6 x 9 Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7864-6931-4 Larry Koger, Historian Most Americans, both black and white, believe that slavery was a system maintained by whites to exploit blacks, but this authoritative study…

  • A Critical Discussion of the “Mulatto Hypothesis” The Journal of Negro Education Volume 3, Number 3, The Physical and Mental Abilities of the American Negro (July, 1934) pages 389-402 Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963) The Two “Mulatto Hypotheses” What is the “mulatto hypothesis?” The phrase may be used to indicate a point of view concerning the…

  • American Chiaroscuro: The Status and Definition of Mulattoes in the British Colonies The William and Mary Quarterly Third Series, Volume 19, Number 2 (April, 1962) pages 183-200 Winthrop D. Jordan (1931-2007) The word mulatto is not frequently used in the United States. Americans generally reserve it for biological contexts, because for social purposes a mulatto…

  • The compelling account of how two heritages united in their struggle to gain freedom and equality in America—now updated with new content!