Category: United States

  • The myth of the melting pot Biodemography and Social Biology Volume 1, Issue 4 (1954) pages 248-251 DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1954.9987204 David C. Rife Institute of Genetics The Ohio State University Elton F. Paddock Institute of Genetics The Ohio State University Myths are fictional legends, but more often than not they carry elements of truth. Popular beliefs…

  • The authors argue that the application of critical methods to fragments in successive discursive formations, including oral traditions, double meanings, epithets, fictions, and fantasies, reveal that Americans have always almost known of their biracial heritage. This re-examination of archival evidence in conjunction with critiques of novels, neologisms, and epithets enables the authors to reinterpret narratives…

  • Lectures delivered by John Powell under the auspices of the lectureship in Music The Rice Institute Pamphlet Volume 10, Number 3 (July 1923) pages 107-163 Lectures delivered by John Powell Palace Theatre of Houston 1923-04-05 through 1923-04-06 John Powell Table of Contents I. Music and the Individual (20 pages) II. Music and the Nation (38…

  • One Big Hapa Family KCTS 9 Television Real NW Seattle, Washington Monday, 2011-11-14, 22:00 PST After a family reunion, Japanese-Canadian filmmaker, Jeff Chiba Stearns embarks on a journey of self-discovery to find out why everyone in his Japanese-Canadian family married interracially after his grandparents’ generation. Using a mix of live action and animation, “One Big…

  • In brilliant novelistic detail, award-winning historian John Bailey reconstructs the exotic sights, sounds, and smells of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, an “infernal motley crew” of cotton kings, decadent river workers, immigrants, and slaves. Miller’s dramatic trial offers an eye into the fascinating laws and customs surrounding slavery, immigration, and racial mixing.

  • A Free Man of Color Grove/Atlantic, Inc. October 2011 112 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4566-6 John Guare John Guare’s new play is astonishing, raucous, and panoramic. A Free Man of Color is set in boisterous New Orleans prior to the historic Louisiana Purchase. Before law and order took hold and class,…

  • (1)ne Drop: 2012 Tour (1)ne Drop National Campus Tour Fall 2011 In an effort to provide audiences the opportunity to more deeply engage the issues raised by the project, the (1)ne Drop project is going on tour. The producers invite colleges and universities across the country to host a (1)ne Drop exhibit. Each exhibition will…

  • First Annual Convention Report: Black German Cultural Society NJ Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey German Historical Institute Washington, D.C. 2011-08-19 through 2011-08-21 14 pages By Priscilla Layne and S. Marina Jones The First Annual Black German Cultural Society, NJ Convention was an important opportunity for scholars, students, and individuals personally affected by Afrogerman…

  • African Diasporas: Afro-German Literature in the Context of the African American Experience Lit Verlag 2006 144 pages ISBN: 3-8258-9612-9 Aija Poikane-Daumke This book investigates the development of Afro-German literature in the context of the African American experience and shows the decisive role of literature for the emergence of the Afro-German Movement. Various Afro-German literary and…

  • “Free People of Color” in Old Virginia: The Morris Family of Gloucester County, a Case Study Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2011-11-10 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Back in 1977, when I was a junior in college, history became a personal venture for me when an African…