Category: History

  • How a long-dead white supremacist still threatens the future of Virginia’s Indian tribes The Washington Post 2015-07-01 Joe Heim, Staff Writer Walter A. Plecker’s goal as Virginia’s registrar of vital statistics was to ban race-mixing. He declared there were no true Indians left because of marriages with blacks. (Richmond Times-Dispatch) Virginia’s Indian tribes have faced…

  • What Is Whiteness? Sunday Review The New York Times 2015-06-20 Nell Irvin Painter, Professor Emerita of History Princeton University The terrorist attack in Charleston, S.C., an atrocity like so many other shameful episodes in American history, has overshadowed the drama of Rachel A. Dolezal’s yearslong passing for black. And for good reason: Hateful mass murder…

  • Driven by Love or Ambition, Slipping Across the Color Line Through the Ages The New York Times 2015-06-28 Rachel L. Swarns Clarence King, a Yale-educated white man who worked as a geologist in the 1800s and dined at the White House, lived a secret life as James Todd, a black train porter with a wife…

  • As South Carolina deals with its Confederate flag, one town in Brazil flies it with pride The World Public Radio International 2015-06-22 Bradley Campbell, Producer Descendants of American Southerners wearing Confederate-era dresses and uniforms dance during a party to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War in Santa Barbara D’Oeste,…

  • Brazil’s government has taken important steps to combat racial inequalities over the past two decades. Afro-Brazilian populations nevertheless remain socially and economically excluded, continuing patterns that began with legal slavery.

  • Episode 613 – President Barack Obama WTF with Marc Maron Monday, 2015-06-22 Marc Maron, Host Barack Obama, President of the United States Marc and President Obama in the garage (Photo: Pete Souza) Marc welcomes the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, to the garage for conversation about college, fitting in, race…

  • What the 1920s Tell Us About Dolezal and Racial Illogic The Chronicle of Higher Education 2015-06-19 Carla Kaplan, Stanton W. and Elisabeth K. Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts Carla Kaplan is author of Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance (Harper, 2013). What does it mean…

  • U.S. ‘Not Cured’ of Racism, Obama Says, Citing Slavery’s Legacy The New York Times 2015-06-22 Michael D. Shear, White House Correspondent Christine Hauser, Reporter WASHINGTON — Just days after nine black parishioners were killed in a South Carolina church, President Obama said the legacy of slavery still “casts a long shadow” on American life, and…

  • One Drop of Love: Written and Performed by: Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni 2015 TCG National Conference Theatre Communications Group Westfield Insurance Studio Theatre, IDEA Center 1375 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio Friday, 2015-06-19, 20:00 EDT (Local Time) Produced by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, this extraordinary one-woman show incorporates filmed images, photographs and animation…

  • The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race Johns Hopkins Univesity Press August 2012 240 pages 1 halftone, 1 line drawing Hardback ISBN: 9781421407005 Rebecca Anne Goetz, Associate Professor of History New York University In The Baptism of Early Virginia, Rebecca Anne Goetz examines the construction of race through the religious beliefs and practices…