Category: History

  • Hiding in Plain Sight: Hell-Roaring Mike We’re History 2015-12-03 James M. O’Toole, Clough Professor of History Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts Captain Healy aboard the Revenue Cutter Bear, with his pet parrot, c.1895. (Photo: U.S. Coast Guard) The Coast Guard icebreaker Healy is back in its home port of Seattle after four months at sea. On…

  • Spanning four generations and moving between New York, Jamaica, and China, a powerful memoir that is a universal story of one woman’s search for her maternal grandfather and the key to her self-identity.

  • A celebration of JA culture: facts, recipes, songs, words, and memories that every JA will want to share.

  • Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People University of North Carolina Press April 2015 Approx. 352 pages 6.125 x 9.25 17 halftones, 3 maps, notes, bibl., index Paper: ISBN 978-1-4696-2105-0 Michel Hogue, Assistant Professor of History Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canadas Born of encounters between Indigenous women and Euro-American men…

  • “Illicit Love” is a history of love, sex, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and settler citizens at the heart of two settler colonial nations, the United States and Australia.

  • “She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body” traces the history of the Cuban mulata and her association with hips, sensuality and popular dance. It examines how the mulata choreographs her racialised identity through her hips and enacts an embodied theory called hip(g)nosis

  • When Louisiana Creoles Arrived in Texas, Were They Black or White? Zócalo Public Square 2015-12-15 Tyina Steptoe, Assistant Professor of History University of Arizona Tyina Steptoe’s book, Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City, was published by the University of California Press in 2015. Mixed-Race Migrants Came to Houston for Jobs and…

  • Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City University of California Press November 2015 320 pages Hardback ISBN: 9780520282575 Paperback ISBN: 9780520282582 Tyina Steptoe, Assistant Professor of History University of Arizona Beginning after World War I and continuing throughout the twentieth century, Houston was transformed from a black-and-white frontier town into one of…

  • Passing in White America Chicago Humanities Festival 2015-12-18 Between the 18th and 20th centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families, friends, and community. It was, as Stanford historian Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and a leap into another. Her work explores the way this racial…

  • Bombay To Brooklyn: New York’s Indian Jews Strive To Preserve Heritage News India Times New York, New York 2015-12-14 Ela Dutt, Managing Editor Siona Benjamin. Photo by Sami studio Siona Benjamin, a greater New York City artist, hangs her “very typical” Indian Jewish Mezuzah, a prayer scroll in an engraved casing, on her door to…