Category: Politics/Public Policy

  • Playing the Interracial Card The New York Times 2012-07-12 Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University “The Miscegenation Ball” Source: Smithsonian Museum of American History (1864) Color print of a dance occuring at the Lincoln Central Campaign Club in New York Sept. 22, 1864. A portrait of Lincoln hangs on the wall. Black…

  • The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia Melbourne University Publishing March 2002 364 pages 235 x 154 mm, 25 b/w illustrations & 4 maps Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-522-84989-9 Warwick Anderson, Research Professor of History University of Sydney Winner of the Australian Historical Association W.K. Hancock Prize 2004 In this lucid and original…

  • Commentary: Morgan Freeman’s Misguided “Mixed-Race President” Quote Black Entertainment Television 2012-07-09 Cord Jefferson The legendary Black actor made a silly mistake when he said Obama isn’t a truly Black president, because fewer and fewer truly Black Americans exist. Morgan Freeman is one of the most sought after actors in Hollywood, and for good reason: He’s…

  • God’s governor: George Grey and racial amalgamation in New Zealand 1845-1853 University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand August 2005 346 pages Susannah Grant A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand The legend of Governor Grey is a major feature of nineteenth century New Zealand…

  • President Johnson’s Message Staunton Spectator Staunton Virginia 1867-12-10 Column 1 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library A full transcript of President Johnson’s recent address to both houses of Congress, in which he argues that the most pressing danger facing the nation is the attempt “to Africanize the half…

  • There were 784,764 U.S. residents who described their race as white and black in the last census. But that number didn’t include Laura Martin, whose father is black and mother is white. “I’ve always just checked black on my form,” said Martin, a 29-year-old university employee in Las Vegas. She grew up surrounded by black…

  • In “Articulate While Black,” two renowned scholars of Black Language address language and racial politics in the U.S. through an insightful examination of President Barack Obama’s language use—and America’s response to it

  • The Founder of the American Protective League Says the Poor Whites Are Not to Blame For Racial Amalgamation.

  • (An)Other English city: Multiethnicities, (post)modern moments and strategic identifications Ethnicities Volume 2, Number 3 (2002) pages 321-348 DOI: 10.1177/14687968020020030301 Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, Visiting Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Duke University The interpretive turn in urban studies signals a heightened emphasis on the locus of the city as the site for both the…

  • Of all the imaginable racialized backlash, real or representational, to Barack Obama’s candidacy for and inauguration as President of the United States, probably no one would have predicted the relatively widespread depiction of him as Adolf Hitler. Even a cursory knowledge of Hitler’s ‘policies’ as leader of the Third Reich and his eugenicist crimes against…