Category: History

  • Only history maligns Malaga Island The Portland Press Herald Portland, Maine 2014-10-26 Dierdre Fleming, Outdoor Reporter The Casco Bay island’s future needn’t be lost in a painful past marked by intolerance. MALAGA ISLAND — The tragic story of Malaga Island has been told many times since the tiny isle off Phippsburg was sold in 2001…

  • There Is No Such Thing as Race Newsweek 2014-11-08 Robert Wald Sussman, Professor of Physical Anthropology Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri In 1950, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) issued a statement asserting that all humans belong to the same species and that “race” is not a biological reality but a myth.…

  • A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life – Allyson Hobbs Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-11-06, 21:00 EST (Friday, 2014-11-07, 02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Allyson Hobbs is an assistant professor in the history department at Stanford. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and she received…

  • Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean: Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference University of Georgia Press 2013-11-15 256 pages 18 b&w photos, 1 map Trim size: 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-4505-5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-4662-5 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-4634-2 Jenny Shaw, Assistant Professor of History University of Alabama A new examination of the experiences…

  • Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial America Routledge 2013-10-04 240 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-81394-5 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-81393-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-203-06779-6 Edited by: Mark Ledwidge, Senior Lecturer of History and American Studies Canterbury Christ Church University Kevern Verney, Professor of American History Edge Hill University Inderjeet Parmar, Professor of Government University of Manchester The…

  • Episode Six: A More Perfect Union The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) Public Broadcasting Service Tuesdays, 2013-10-22 through 2013-11-26, 20:00-21:00 ET From Black Power to Black President By 1968, the Civil Rights movement had achieved stunning victories, in the courts and in the Congress. But would African Americans finally…

  • In “The Mulatto Republic,” April Mayes looks at the many ways Dominicans define themselves through race, skin color, and culture. She explores significant historical factors and events that have led the nation, for much of the twentieth century, to favor privileged European ancestry and Hispanic cultural norms such as the Spanish language and Catholicism.

  • A rare glimpse into the thoughts and experiences of a free black American woman in the nineteenth century

  • Historically Black: Imagining Community in a Black Historic District New York University Press July 2014 208 pages 10 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9780814762882 Paper ISBN: 9780814763483 Mieka Brand Polanco, Assistant Professor of Anthropology James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia In Historically Black, Mieka Brand Polanco examines the concept of community in the United States: how communities are…

  • Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry tells the story of this couple and the case that forever changed the law of race and marriage in America.