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  • Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade by Randy J. Sparks, and: Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It by James Ciment (review)

    Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade by Randy J. Sparks, and: Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It by James Ciment (review) Journal of the Early Republic Volume 34, Number 4, Winter 2014 pages 686-690 DOI: 10.1353/jer.2014.0068 Andrew N. Wegmann…

  • A Look at Looking Different

    A Look at Looking Different The New York Times 2014-12-02 Felicia R. Lee ‘Crossing Borders,’ at the Brooklyn Historical Society Alexander David grew up with a Chinese mother and a white Jewish father in the liberal Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. He attended the predominantly Asian elite Stuyvesant High School. He was comfortable in his…

  • Photography in Economies of Demonstration: The Idea of the Jews as a Mixed-Race People

    Photography in Economies of Demonstration: The Idea of the Jews as a Mixed-Race People Jewish Social Studies Volume 20, Number 1, Fall 2013 pages 150-183 DOI: 10.1353/jss.2013.0015 Amos Morris-Reich, Director of the Bucerius Institute Department of Jewish History University of Haifa, Israel Photographs played an important role in the development of the idea of the…

  • COLA Seminar Probes Shifting Identity of ‘Whiteness’ in America

    COLA Seminar Probes Shifting Identity of ‘Whiteness’ in America University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 2014-11-17 Anne Bromley, Associate UVA Today The category of “white” as the majority race against which other groups have been described in the United States might seem well-defined, but it has been anything but that…

  • The corporate institution of mixed race: Indigeneity, discourse, and Orientalism in Aboriginal policy

    The corporate institution of mixed race: Indigeneity, discourse, and Orientalism in Aboriginal policy Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Volume 10, Number 1, 2014 17 pages Camie Augustus Department of History University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Contradiction in Aboriginal policy, especially the oscillation between assimilation and segregation, is often viewed as inconsequential. The suggestion has been…

  • Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid

    Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid The Atlantic 2014-11-26 Ta-Nehisi Coates, National Correspondent Violence works. Nonviolence does too. In a recent dispatch from Ferguson, Missouri, Jelani Cobb noted that President Obama’s responses to “unpunished racial injustices” constitute “a genre unto themselves.” Monday night, when Barack Obama stood before the nation to interpret…

  • Glenn Chavis: Inquiry helps shed light on mixed-race heritage

    Glenn Chavis: Inquiry helps shed light on mixed-race heritage The News & Record Greensboro, North Carolina 2014-11-25 Glenn Chavis, Community Columnist I recently received a call from a professor emeritus at Jackson State University who is working on a project dealing with a Tri-Racial Isolate group called Turks, who once made Sumter County, S.C., their…

  • Grad student Alex Finley found her roots — and more

    Grad student Alex Finley found her roots — and more William & Mary News and Events The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 2014-11-24 Jim Ducibella, Communications Specialist This is part one of a two-story series. Check back Nov. 26 for the second part. – Ed. As a child, Alex Finley remembers going through…

  • Allyson Hobbs (Book) A Chosen Exile

    Allyson Hobbs (Book) A Chosen Exile Joe Madison The Black Eagle SiriusXM Urban ViewAfrican-American Talk 2014-11-13 Joe Madison, Host Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University

  • ‘A Chosen Exile,’ by Allyson Hobbs [Senna Review]

    ‘A Chosen Exile,’ by Allyson Hobbs [Senna Review] The New York Times Sunday Book Review 2014-11-21 Danzy Senna A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life By Allyson Hobbs; Illustrated. 382 pp. Harvard University Press. $29.95. One of the best birthday presents anybody ever gave me was a “calling card” by the…