Category: History

  • ‘Free State of Jones’ author talks The Clarion-Ledger Jackson, Mississippi 2016-03-02 Author Victoria Bynum discusses her book, Free State of Jones, which is now a new Hollywood movie starring Matthew Mcconaughey. Watch the interview here.

  • The Free State of Jones, Movie Edition: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War University of North Carolina Press March 2016 352 pages 32 halftones, 10 maps, 4 tables appends., notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN 978-1-4696-2705-2 Victoria E. Bynum, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Texas State University, San Marcos With a New Afterword by the Author Between late…

  • Finding my roots Eve’s Perspective: Sharing views one post at a time 2016-02-03 Ashley R. Alexander Born in 1872 in Maysville, Alabama. Jordan-Woodard is my 3rd great-grandmother. I couldn’t stop staring at the picture of this young lady. This young mulatto girl from the 19th century, who appears to look white and though there is…

  • Beyoncé, Creoles, and Modern Blackness University of California Press Blog 2016-02-29 Tyina Steptoe, Assistant Professor of History University of Arizona Tyina Steptoe is the author of Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City (2015). Beyoncé is a black woman. This isn’t exactly earth-shattering news; after all, the 34-year-old, Houston-born entertainer has one…

  • Of the almost 11 million Africans who came to the Americas between 1500 and 1870, two-thirds came to Spanish America and Brazil. Over four centuries, Africans and their descendants—both free and enslaved—participated in the political, social, and cultural movements that indelibly shaped their countries’ colonial and post-independence pasts. Yet until very recently Afro-Latin Americans were…

  • Twentieth Century-Fox’s Pinky is far from the first Hollywood feature film that depicts an interracial relationship. Despite the evolution of various censorship codes that forbid depicting “miscegenation,” Hollywood has a rich history of mining the salacious or elicit potential from interracial pairing on screen, from Broken Blossoms to Duel in the Sun, Showboat to Imitation…

  • “The Free State of Jones” on Film: A Q&A with Victoria Bynum The Society of Civil War Historians 2016-03-01 Megan Kate Nelson This May, STX Entertainment will release the film Free State of Jones, which tells the story of the Knight Company and the Jones County rebellion, a Civil War history first told by Victoria…

  • Speaker: Allyson Hobbs Colgate University 27 Persson Hall 13 Oak Drive Hamilton, New York 13346 Monday, 2016-03-21, 16:15-18:15 EDT (Local Time) Contact: Diane English 315-228-7511 Guest speaker Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Stanford University will give a lecture entitled: “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life”, Monday,…

  • ‘Myth of racial democracy is part of the education of the Brazilian,” says Congolese anthropologist living in Brazil Black Women of Brazil 2016-02-16 Thiago de Araújo The absence of Black nominees at the 2016 Oscars. ‘Black face’ is just a costume. Cotistas (quota students) surpass (scores) of non-cotista students. A black sponge doll on the…

  • Author, 18, from Williamsburg examines race through his family’s eyes in book The Virginia Gazette Williamsburg, Virginia 2016-02-16 Heather Bridges, Contact Reporter Canaan Kennedy, 18, is a freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University who grew up in Williamsburg. He recently published a book, his first, on family members’ experiences with race. (Heather Bridges / The Virginia…