Category: Native Americans/First Nation

  • The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories Wilfrid Laurier University Press May 2007 370 pages ISBN13: 978-0-88920-523-9 Editors: Ute Lischke, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies Wilfrid Laurier University David T. McNab, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies York University, Toronto Known as “Canada’s forgotten people,” the Métis have long…

  • Race in an Era of Change: A Reader Oxford University Press September 2010 544 pages ISBN13: 9780199752102 ISBN10: 0199752109 Edited By: Heather Dalmage, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Mansfield Institute Roosevelt University Barbara Katz Rothman, Professor of Sociology Baruch College of the City Univerity of New York Featuring a wide range of classic…

  • Real Americans [Book Review] The Virginia Quarterly Review Spring 2009 pages 206-210 Oscar Villalon What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America, by Ariela J. Gross. Harvard University Press, October 2008. As a child, there were the Americans, and then there was us. Americans weren’t that plentiful in my grandmother’s neighborhood.…

  • Founding Chestnut Ridge: The Origins of Central West Virginia’s Multiracial Community The Ohio State University Department of History Project Advisor: Randolph Roth, Professor of History and Sociology March 2010 140 pages Alexandra Finley The Ohio State University Senior Honors Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for graduation with research distinction in History in…

  • Geographies of racially mixed people and households: A focus on American Indians Population Association of America 2010 Annual Meeting Program 2010-04-17 23 pages Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center University of Minnesota Meghan Zacher Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center University of Minnesota March 2010 Multiracial individuals and…

  • Was first black priest black enough? Chicago Tribune 2010-05-02 Manya A. Brachear, Tribune reporter Healy, son of a plantation owner, isn’t mentioned as often as Tolton, who is being pushed for sainthood More than a year after some African-Americans scrutinized the blackness of the nation’s first black president, America’s Catholics are now wrestling with the…

  • Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country Duke University Press 2006 392 pages 7 illustrations, 1 table Edited by: Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan Sharon Patricia Holland, Associate Professor of English; African & African American Studies Duke University Contributors: Joy…

  • Forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1830s, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians brought their African-descended slaves with them along the Trail of Tears and resettled in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Celia E. Naylor vividly charts the experiences of enslaved and free African Cherokees from the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma’s entry into…

  • Crossing the Color Line: Racial Migration and the One-Drop Rule, 1600–1860 Minnesota Law Review Volume 91, Number 3 (February 2007) pages 592-656 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University “It ain’t no lie, it’s a natural fact, / You could have been colored without being so black…” —Sung by deck hands, Auburn, Alabama, 1915–161…

  • “Tell the Court I Love My [Indian] Wife” Interrogating Race and Self-Identity in Loving v. Virginia Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society Volume 8, Issue 1 (April 2006) pages 67-80 DOI: 10.1080/10999940500516983 Arica L. Coleman, Assistant Professor of Black American Studies Unverisity of Delaware The article reexamines the Loving V. Virginia…