Category: History

  • The Historiography of Métis Land Dispersal, 1870-1890 Manitoba History Number 30, Autumn 1995 Brad Milne History Department University of Manitoba The Manitoba Act of 1870 provided substantial land grants to the Métis at Red River. Section 31 set aside 1.4 million acres of land for distribution among the children of Métis heads of families residing…

  • The Forgotten Diaspora The Official Gateway to Scotland 2008 Geoff Palmer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Life Sciences Heriot-Watt University I was born in Jamaica in 1940, the largest British island in the Caribbean. I emigrated to London in 1955 to join my mother and earn a living. She had emigrated in 1948. In…

  • A Classic Study of the History of Caribbean Women H-Caribbean Reviews, H-Net Reviews December 2008 Barbara Bush Lucille Mathurin Mair. A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655-1844. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2006. 496 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-976-640-166-5; (paper), ISBN 978-976-640-178-8. I first encountered Lucille Mathurin Mair’s work during the 1970s…

  • Constructing Afro-Cuban Womanhood: Race, Gender, and Citizenship in Republican-Era Cuba, 1902-1958 University of Texas, Austin 343 pages August 2011 Takkara Keosha Brunson Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy This dissertation explores continuities…

  • How Scuffletown Became Indian Country: Political Change and Transformations in Indian identity in Robeson County, North Carolina, 1865-1956 University of Washington 2008 267 pages Publication Number: AAT 3328369 ISBN: 9780549817246 Anna Bailey A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy According to census reports, there were no…

  • Cultural Reconstruction: Nation, Race, and the Invention of the American Magazine, 1830-1915 University of Maryland 2003-12-19 504 pages Reynolds J. Scott-Childress, Assistant Professor of History New Paltz, State University of New York Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree…

  • A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655–1844 University of The West Indies Press 2006 400 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-976-640-178-8 Author: Lucille Mathurin Mair (1925-2009) Edited by: Hilary McD. Beckles, Principal University of The West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados Verene A. Shepherd, University Director Centre for Gender & Dev Std-RC: Centre Research/Teaching…

  • The lessons of slavery: Discourses of slavery, mestizaje, and blanqueamiento in an elementary school in Puerto Rico American Ethnologist Volume 35 Number 1 (February 2008) pages 115-135 DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00009.x Isar P. Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Mariolga Reyes Cruz Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Mariluz Franco-Ortiz…

  • “A Class of People Neither Freemen nor Slaves”: From Spanish to American Race Relations in Florida, 1821-1861 Journal of Social History Volume 26, Number 3 (Spring, 1993) pages 587-609 Daniel L. Schafer, Professor of History emeritus University of North Florida This essay examines the status of free blacks in Florida, focusing on the transition from…

  • Frau Doktor Nancy Stafford of Georgia: From Slave to Physician The African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter March 2009 ISSN: 1933-8651 95 pages Mary R. Bullard Tracy Moxhay Castle Chapter 1 In 1850 a cotton planter named Robert Stafford fathered a daughter (later named Cornelia) by a woman named “Juda.” Three years later Juda bore him a…