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  • The Gap Between Whites and Whiteness: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy

    The Gap Between Whites and Whiteness: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race September 2006 Volume 3, Issue 2 pages 341-363 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X06060231 France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Amy C. Steinbugler, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dickinson University How do White members of Black-White…

  • The University of Iowa – Be Remarkable: Courtney Parker

    The University of Iowa – Be Remarkable: Courtney Parker University of Iowa 2009-06-08 Po Li Loo Inspired by her multicultural background, a 2008 grad set out to connect campus groups and redefine diversity. Courtney Parker came to The University of Iowa because of the renowned Writers’ Workshop. But in her time here, she discovered other…

  • An Inter-Racial Love Story in Fact and Fiction: William and Mary King Allen’s Marriage and Louisa May Alcott’s Tale, ‘M.L.’

    An Inter-Racial Love Story in Fact and Fiction: William and Mary King Allen’s Marriage and Louisa May Alcott’s Tale, ‘M.L.’ History Workshop Journal 2002 Volume 53, Number 1 pages 17-42 DOI: 10.1093/hwj/53.1.17 Sarah Elbert, Professor Emerita of History The State University of New York, Binghamton William G. Allen, the child of a free mulatto mother…

  • The American Prejudice Against Color: An Authentic Narrative, Showing How Easily The Nation Got Into An Uproar

    A compilation of the explosive reactions to interracial love and marriage in antebellum America.

  • Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery

    Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery Northeastern University Press University Press of New England 1997 160 pages EAN: 978-1-55553-307-6 Louisa May Alcott Edited by Sarah Elbert, Professor Emerita of History The State University of New York, Binghamton The passionate supporter of abolition and women’s rights speaks out on the most controversial issues of…

  • The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy

    The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy Carolina Academic Press January 2010 ISBN: 978-0-89089-085-1 Hardback Robert F. Turner, Associate Director at the Center for National Security Law University of Virginia School of Law In 2000, the newly formed Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society asked a group of more than a dozen senior scholars from across the country to carefully examine…

  • A Beautiful Lie: Exploring Rhinelander v. Rhinelander as a Formative Lesson on Race, Marriage, Identity, and Family

    A Beautiful Lie: Exploring Rhinelander v. Rhinelander as a Formative Lesson on Race, Marriage, Identity, and Family California Law Review Volume 95, Issue 6 (2007) pages 2393-2458 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Professor of Law and Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Scholar University of Iowa College of Law During the mid-1920s, the story of the courtship, marriage,…

  • Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery

    Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery Cornell University Press 2005 254 pages, 6 x 9 ISBN: 978-0-8014-4384-8  Carolyn Vellenga Berman Department of Humanities The New School, New York The character of the Creole woman—the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier—is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French,…

  • Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina

    Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina Cornell University Press 2001 288 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 2 maps, 13 halftones, 1 line drawing Paper ISBN: 978-0-8014-8679-1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8014-3822-6 Kirsten Fischer, Associate Professor of History University of Minnesota Over the course of the eighteenth century, race came to seem as…

  • Chameleon’s Fate: Transnational Mixed-Race Vietnamese Identities

    Chameleon’s Fate: Transnational Mixed-Race Vietnamese Identities Amerasia Journal University of Califonia, Los Angeles Asian American Studies Center Press ISSN: 0044-7471 2005 Issue Volume 31, Number 2 Pages 51-62 Fiona I. B. Ngô, Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies & Gender and Women’s Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The chameleon’s fate is an apt metaphor for the lives of…