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  • Holocaust Art By A Jew Who Was Black Josef Nassy’s Vision Of Nazi Camps Has Its First U.s. Show Here.

    Holocaust Art By A Jew Who Was Black Josef Nassy’s Vision Of Nazi Camps Has Its First U.s. Show Here. The Philadelphia Inquirer 1989-04-04 Leonard W. Boasberg, Inquirer Staff Writer There are strength and pathos in the drawings. There are loneliness and community, a sense of the desperation of the individual – the prisoner, the…

  • The Japanese women who married the enemy

    The Japanese women who married the enemy BBC News Magazine 2015-08-16 Vanessa Barford Seventy years ago many Japanese people in occupied Tokyo after World War Two saw US troops as the enemy. But tens of thousands of young Japanese women married GIs nonetheless – and then faced a big struggle to find their place in…

  • DNA Is Said to Solve a Mystery of Warren Harding’s Love Life

    DNA Is Said to Solve a Mystery of Warren Harding’s Love Life The New York Times 2015-08-12 Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent WASHINGTON — She was denounced as a “degenerate” and a “pervert,” accused of lying for money and shamed for waging a “diabolical” campaign of falsehoods against the president’s family that tore away…

  • Dark-Skinned Or Black? How Afro-Brazilians Are Forging A Collective Identity

    Dark-Skinned Or Black? How Afro-Brazilians Are Forging A Collective Identity Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-08-12 Lulu Garcia-Navarro, South America Correspondent Sisters Francine and Fernanda Gravina have German, Italian, African and indigenous ancestry. (Lourdes Garcia-Navarro/NPR) If you want to get a sense of how complex racial identity is in…

  • Book Review: “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life” by Allyson Hobbs

    Book Review: “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life” by Allyson Hobbs The Santa Fe New Mexican 2015-05-15 Adele Oliveira A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs, Harvard University Press, 382 pages In the first chapter of The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du…

  • Brazil’s colour bind

    Brazil is combating many kinds of inequality. But one of the world’s most diverse nations is still just beginning to talk about race

  • Pocahontas’ tribe, the Pamunkey of Virginia, finally recognized by U.S.

    Pocahontas’ tribe, the Pamunkey of Virginia, finally recognized by U.S. The Los Angeles Times 2015-08-02 Noah Bierman Mikayla Deacy, 4, swims with her dog Dakota in the Pamunkey River. As a member of the tribe, Mikayla will be eligible for scholarships and other benefits now that the Pamunkey have received federal recognition. (Carolyn Cole /…

  • An Intellectual History of Black Women

    An Intellectual History of Black Women Katharine Cornell Theater 54 Spring Street Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts 02568 Sunday, 2015-08-02, 19:00-20:30 EDT (Local Time) Moderator: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies Harvard University Discussants: Farah J. Griffin, William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and…

  • Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies

    The colonization of Spanish America resulted in the mixing of Natives, Europeans, and Africans and the subsequent creation of a casta system that discriminated against them. Members of mixed races could, however, free themselves from such burdensome restrictions through the purchase of a gracias al sacar—a royal exemption that provided the privileges of Whiteness.

  • Blacks, Mulattos, and the Dominican Nation

    Blacks, Mulattos, and the Dominican Nation Routledge 2015-05-08 (orginally published in 1969) 122 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781138785007 Hardback ISBN: 9781138784994 Franklin J. Franco (1936-2013) Introduction by: Silvio Torres-Saillant, Dean’s Professor in the Humanities Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York Blacks, Mulattos, and the Dominican Nation is the first English translation of the classic text Los negros,…