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  • People of Color in Lousiana: Part I

    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…

  • Tiffany Rae Reid pens first book as a guide for raising biracial children

    Tiffany Rae Reid pens first book as a guide for raising biracial children phillyBurbs.com 2011-12-18 Naila Francis, Staff Writer At first, there were the looks, brazenly curious, speculative, and in Briety McKeon’s eyes, even judgmental. Who was the little girl beside her? The one with the warm, honeyed tint to her skin, the darker, curlier…

  • Between Black and White: Attitudes Toward Southern Mulattoes, 1830-1861

    Between Black and White: Attitudes Toward Southern Mulattoes, 1830-1861 The Journal of Southern History Volume 45, Number 2 (May, 1979) pages 185-200 Robert Brent Toplin, Professor of History University of North Carolina, Wilmington The documents of slavery—laws, narratives speeches, and political tracts—contain abundant references to “Negroes” and “mulattoes.” By the standards of antebellum America, the…

  • The Anatomy of Grey: A Theory of Interracial Convergence

    The Anatomy of Grey: A Theory of Interracial Convergence College of Law Faculty Scholarship Paper 74 January 2008 56 pages Kevin Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Janis L. McDonald, Professor of Law Syracuse University This article offers a theory of racial identity divorced from biological considerations. Law fails to recognize the complexity of…

  • Negro Genius—Reviewed work(s):

    Negro Genius—Reviewed work(s): The Journal of American Folklore Volume 18, Number 71 (October-December, 1905) pages 319-322 NEGRO GENIUS. As a dispatch from Washington, D. C., the “Evening Transcript” (Boston, Mass.) of February 18, 1905, published the following concerning the investigations of Mr. Daniel Murray: – “Daniel Murray, for many years an assistant in the Library…

  • Not keeping up appearances? Mixed race Asian Americans and the use of racial language

    Not keeping up appearances? Mixed race Asian Americans and the use of racial language University of Utah December 2009 76 pages Paul Charles Humbert-Fisk A thesis submitted to the faculty of The University of Utah in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science There has been a movement to proclaim…

  • The passing of Charles Chesnutt: Mining the white tradition

    The passing of Charles Chesnutt: Mining the white tradition Wasafiri Volume 13, Issue 27 pages 5-10 DOI 10.1080/02690059808589583 Sarah Meer, Lecturer of English Univeristy of Cambridge In May 1880, the young Charles Chesnutt confided to his diary his ambition to write a book. Its object would be ‘not so much the elevation of the colored people’—the concern…

  • Racial Classification and History

    Racial Classification and History Routledge 1997-02-01 376 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8153-2602-1 Edited by E. Nathaniel Gates (1955-2006) Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Yeshiva University Explores the concept of “race” The term “race,” which originally denoted genealogical or class identity, has in the comparatively brief span of 300 years taken on an entirely new meaning.…

  • In My Experience: A Multi-Racial Heritage

    In My Experience: A Multi-Racial Heritage Forum: with Michael Kransy KQED Radio San Francisco, California 2011-12-16 Dave Iverson, Host As part of our series “In My Experience,” spotlighting the personal stories of our listeners, we talk with a panel of biracial and multi-racial people about race, identity and what it’s like to grow up looking…

  • Boucicault’s misdirections: Race, transatlantic theatre and social position in The Octoroon

    Boucicault’s misdirections: Race, transatlantic theatre and social position in The Octoroon Atlantic Studies Volume 6, Number 1 (April 2009) pages 81-95 DOI: 10.1080/14788810802696287 Sarah Meer, Lecturer of English Univeristy of Cambridge This article challenges a number of myths the Irish-American melodramatist Dion Boucicault himself created about his play The Octoroon. Boucicault claimed that London theatre…