Category: United States

  • Michelle Cliff and the Authority of Identity The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Volume 28, Number 1, Identities (Spring, 1995) pages 56-70 Sally O’Driscoll, Associate Professor of English Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut Michelle Cliff has gained critical acclaim as a novelist in the United States and England; her position as an expatriate Jamaican…

  • A More Noble Cause: A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana Louisiana State University Press April 2011 328 pages 6 x 9 inches, 21 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780807137932 Alexander P. Tureaud, Jr. Rachel L. Emanuel Throughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement, attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud was…

  • Creole Is, Creole Ain’t: Diachronic and Synchronic Attitudes toward Creole Identity in Southern Louisiana Language in Society Volume 29, Number 2 (June, 2000) pages 237-258 Sylvie Dubois, Gabriel Muir Professor of French Studies Louisiana State University Megan Melançon, Associate Professor of English Georgia College Creole identity in Louisiana acquired diverse meanings for several ethnic groups…

  • The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency Random House, Inc. 2011-08-16 336 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-37789-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-307-45555-0 Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law Harvard Law School Timely—as the 2012 presidential election nears—and controversial, here is the first book by a major African-American public intellectual on racial…

  • Slaves and Masters: The Louisiana Metoyers National Genealogical Society Quarterly (current source: Historic Pathways) Volume 70, Number 3 (September 1982) pages 163-189 Elizabeth Shown Mills Gary B. Mills (1944-2002) The pursuit of genealogical research by Afro-Americans is a fairly-recent innovation in the American social experience. From an academic standpoint, today’s generation of black family historians…

  • Color Differentiation in the American Systems of Slavery The Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 3, Number 3 (Winter, 1973) pages 509-541 Donald L. Horowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science Duke University In the comparative study of race relations, the evolution of group identity constitutes a central process. Although group boundaries tend…

  • Black Pluralism in Post Loving America Chapter in: Loving vs. Virginia in a Post-Racial World: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Marriage Cambridge University Press May 2012 300 pages Hardback ISBN-13: 9780521198585 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780521147989 Edited by Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Rose Cuison Villazor, Associate Professor of Law Hofstra University Chapter Author…

  • Study: Multiracial groups and social position, segregation in America The JHU Gazette Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland 2011-12-19 Amy Lunday, Homewood The American social hierarchy places people of mixed-race ancestry below whites but above blacks, while additional social stratifications along color lines are simultaneously taking place within the nation’s multiracial groups, according to a Johns…

  • When It Counts—More On Obama and the Census InterfaithFamiliy.com 2010-05-03 Ruth Abrams Elizabeth Chang wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post last week, “Why Obama should not have checked ‘black’ on his census form,” Although I knew Obama self-identifies as African American, I was disappointed when I read that that’s what he checked on…

  • The title of a possible discussion of the Negro in Louisiana presents difficulties, for there is no such word as Negro permissible in speaking of this State. The history of the State is filled with attempts to define, sometimes at the point of the sword, oftenest in civil or criminal courts, the meaning of the…