Category: United States

  • Pio Pico: The Last Governor of Mexican California University of Oklahoma Press 2010 256 pages 5.5″ x 8.5″, Illustrations: 7 B&W Illus. Hardcover ISBN: 9780806140902 Paperback ISBN: 9780806142371 Carlos Manuel Salomon, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies California State University, East Bay The first biography of a politically savvy Californio who straddled three eras Two-time governor…

  • California’s Hispanic Heritage: A View Into the Spanish Myth The Journal of San Diego History San Diego Historical Society Quarterly Volume 19, Number 1 (Winter 1973) Manuel Patricio Servin, Professor of Southwestern and Mexican-American History Arizona State University, Tempe No aspect of Borderlands’ history has been more distorted than that of the Spanish colonization of…

  • The first mixed race student is admitted to Wheaton Wheaton College History Wheaton College, Newton, Massachusetts 2011-02-02 Deanna Hauck The first African-American student to attend Wheaton probably did so unbeknownst to the school. In 1856-57, Mary E. Stafford of Cumberland Island, Georgia attended Wheaton. She was the daughter of a white father [Robert Stafford] and an…

  • How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon Verso Books October 2008 Hardback, 240 pages Paperback, 272 pages Hardback ISBN: 9781844672752 Paperback ISBN: 9781844674343 David R. Roediger, Foundation Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History University of Kansas An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by…

  • Interracial Marriage and Admixture in Hawaii Biodemography and Social Biology Volume 17, Issue 4 (1970) pages 278-291 DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1970.9987885 Clarence E. Glick, Professor of Sociology University of Hawaii Michener’s phrase “the golden men of Hawaii” reflects a popular romantic interest in the blending of ethnic elements that has been going on in Hawaii for almost…

  • The Hybrid in Hawaii as a Marginal Man American Journal of Sociology Volume 39, Number 4 (January 1934) pages 459-468 William C. Smith William Jewell College Several factors conspire to make the hybrid in Hawaii occupy a position markedly different from that of the mixed-blood in other areas. The relative absence of race prejudice on the…

  • Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-first Century School for Advanced Research Press 2011 280 pages 1 map, 3 tables, 6 appendices, notes, references, index 7 x 10 Circe Dawn Sturm, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Texas, Austin In Becoming Indian, author Circe Sturm examines Cherokee identity politics and the phenomenon…

  • Experiences and Processes Affecting Racial Identity Development: Preliminary Results From the Biracial Sibling Project Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology (formerly Cultural Diversity and Mental Health) Volume 4, Issue 3, August 1998 Pages 237-247 DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.4.3.237 Maria P. P. Root, Ph.D. Examined what drives the process of racial identity development in general for persons of…

  • Circe Sturm takes a bold and original approach to one of the most highly charged and important issues in the United States today: race and national identity. Focusing on the Oklahoma Cherokee, she examines how Cherokee identity is socially and politically constructed, and how that process is embedded in ideas of blood, color, and race.

  • What race do you identify Obama as? Does President Obama’s race effect your opinion of him? SOC 119 – Voices from the Classroom World in Conversation Project Pennsylvania State University 2011-09-08 The first of 138+ student comments… Personally President Obama’s race does not affect my opinion of him at all. When viewing Obama I consider…