Category: United States

  • The Octoroon and English Opinions of Slavery American Quarterly Volume 8, Number 2 (Summer, 1956) pages 166-170 Nils Erik Enkvist Akademi Abo, Finland After his great successes, and notably that of Colleen Bawn, Dion Boucicault became something of a leading figure among English-speaking playwrights, while the critics as well as the public eagerly watched his…

  • Wealthy free women of color in Charleston, South Carolina during slavery University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2007 271 pages Publication Number: AAT 3275800 ISBN: 9780549175599 Rita Reynolds, Assistant Professor of History Wagner College, Staten Island, New York This dissertation focuses on the lives and experiences of a small group of affluent free mulatto women in antebellum…

  • The making of a middlerace: the social politics surrounding Black-White interracial marriages and Black White biracial identity Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois May 2008 253 pages Yoftahe K. Manna Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Communication Studies In an attempt to uncover the social politics…

  • Carothers McCaslin’s Progeny Tracing the Theme of Redemption Chronologically Through the Multiracial McCaslins Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects 1999 Paper 211 pages 38-50 Christine Reiss Western Kentucky University William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses (1942) is a novel that depicts the complicated family history of the McCaslins. There are primarily three branches of the family: the…

  • International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Mixedness and Mixing develops theoretical perspectives and presents intellectually shaped empirical evidence that can deal with complexity and normalcy in order to move the debate onto more fruitful grounds. It is an important book for students and scholars of race and ethnicity.

  • James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex–Colored Man: A Century Later (Session 529) Modern Language Association 127th MLA Annual Convention 2012-01-05 through 2012-01-05 Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washingon Program arranged by the Division on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature Presiding Gene Andrew Jarrett, Associate Professor of English Boston University Speakers 1. “Music, Race,…

  • An art history mystery at Worcester Art Museum Metrowest Daily News Framingham, Massachusetts 2011-12-12 Chris Bergeron, Daily News Staff WORCESTER—Forget the da Vinci Code. There’s no Knight Templars or murderous albinos, but the life and death of Julien Hudson and the whereabouts of his paintings is a fascinating “art historical mystery’’ waiting to be solved.…

  • Jean Toomer and Politics (Session 465) Modern Language Association 127th MLA Annual Convention 2012-01-05 through 2012-01-08 Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washington A Special Session Saturday, 2012-01-07, 12:00-13:15 PST (Local Time) Room 6A, WSCC Presiding: Gino Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California Speakers: Barbara Clare Foley, Professor of English and…

  • Racial Hegemony in America: The Struggle for identity Among the Black Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southern United States 2004/2005 Portland State University McNair Scholars Online Journal Volume 1, Transformative Possibilities: Transcending Interlocking Boundaries pages 150-164 Natasha Hartsfield Faculty Mentors: Pedro Ferbel-Azcarate The notion of race was introduced to the Americas at…

  • Rewriting of the past and paradigm of the feminine in “The Quadroons of New Orleans” by Sidonie de La Houssaye Pennsylvania State University 2008 231 pages Publication Number: AAT 3336040 ISBN: 9780549923022 Christian Hommel Les Quarteronnes de la Nouvelle-Orléans is a novel written by a Creole women of the white francophone aristocracy, and appeard as…