Mixed Race Studies

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  • Kip And Alice Rhinelander Social Error

    Kip And Alice Rhinelander Social Error New York Daily News 1999-05-02 07:10Z Jay Maeder, Daily News Staff Writer From Germany to the New World came the Rhinelanders in the year 1696, and here they settled New Rochelle and begat. They were quite meticulous about it. For 200 years, naught but the proudest blood streamed through…

  • Asian Americans: From Racial Category to Multiple Identities

    Asian Americans: From Racial Category to Multiple Identities Alta Mira Press April 1998 116 pages Cloth: 2 0-7619-9172-7 / 978-0-7619-9172-4  Paper: 2 0-7619-9173-5 / 978-0-7619-9173-1  Juanita Tamayo Lott Does race matter? Having witnessed the civil rights movement and changes in immigration laws, we continue to ask ourselves this complex question. In the United States, racial…

  • Racial Constructions: The Legal Regulation of Miscegenation in Alabama, 1890–1934

    For over one hundred years–from the post–Civil War era to the post–Civil Rights era–the state of Alabama maintained a legal and social commitment to keeping blacks and whites from engaging in long-term sexual relationships with each other. Recent studies addressing the laws that barred miscegenation have shown that investigating governmental reactions to intimate interracial connections…

  • The McDonald Furman Papers, 1889-1903

    The McDonald Furman Papers, 1889-1903 USCS Newsletter University of South Carolina Society Spring 1997 Terry Lipscomb McDonald Furman, a descendant of Richard Furman, was a history enthusiast with a taste for anthropology. Regarded as an eccentric by contemporary South Carolinians, he was held in high regard by the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology. His research…

  • How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses

    For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses–not just their eyes–to construct racial difference and define race.

  • A Southern Family in White and Black: The Cuneys of Texas

    Most Texas history books name Norris Wright Cuney as one of the most influential African American politicians in nineteenth-century Texas, but they tell little about him beyond his elected positions. In The Cuneys, Douglas Hales not only fills in the details of Cuney’s life and contributions but places him in the context of his family’s…

  • One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820–1870

    One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820–1870 University of Massachusetts Press June 2005 288 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-1-55849-483-1 Karen Woods Weierman, Associate Professor of English Worcester State University Examines the roots of a pernicious and persistent American taboo The proscription against interracial marriage was for many years a flashpoint…

  • The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans

    The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans Rutgers University Press 2007-03-28 168 pages 9 b&w illustrations Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4058-0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4057-3 Carol Wilson, Arthur A. and Elizabeth R. Knapp Professor of American History Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland In 1843, the Louisiana Supreme Court heard the case of a…

  • Love and Race Caught in the Public Eye

    Love and Race Caught in the Public Eye ND Newswire University of Notre Dame 2001-05-31 Heidi Ardizzone, Assistant Professor of American Studies University of Notre Dame Earl Lewis, Provost Emory University Lovers seek to create a place that they can inhabit together against the obstacles of the world. Marriage promises that they will live in…

  • An Illuminated Life: Bella da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to Privilege

    The secret life of the sensational woman behind the Morgan masterpieces, who lit up New York society.