Category: History

  • Remains will stay in old family cemetery in Bedford The News & Advance Lynchburg, Virginia 2014-10-01 Alex Rohr, Beat Reporter BEDFORD — The remains of at least 20 people buried in Bedford will stay interred despite a request by the Bank of the James to move them. The bank’s request to the Bedford County Circuit…

  • Born Champions [Full Episode] Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2014-09-30 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Host and Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Harvard University Three of America’s greatest athletes, whose determination and love of sports were deeply shaped by their families, were…

  • The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea Harvard University Press October 2014 384 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 4 halftones, 2 line illustrations Hardcover ISBN: 9780674417311 Robert Wald Sussman, Professor of Physical Anthropology Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Biological races do not exist—and never have. This view is shared by all…

  • Finding Your Roots: The Official Companion to the PBS Series University of North Carolina Press September 2014 352 pages 6.125 x 9.25, index Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4696-1800-5 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Harvard University Who are we, and where do we…

  • Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India: Trials of an Interracial Family by Chandra Mallampalli (review) [Epstein] Victorian Studies Volume 56, Number 3, Spring 2014 pages 519-520 DOI: 10.1353/vic.2014.0064 James Epstein, Distinguished Professor of History Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Mallampalli, Chandra, Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India: Trials of an Interracial Family (Cambridge, New…

  • Notaries of Color in Colonial Panama: Limpieza de Sangre, Legislation, and Imperial Practices in the Administration of the Spanish Empire The Americas Volume 71, Number 1, July 2014 pages 37-69 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2014.0082 Silvia Espelt-Bombín University of St Andrews, United Kingdom On July 20, 1740, King Philip V of Spain was given paperwork regarding a dispute…

  • Preview: Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni questions race and identity in “One Drop of Love” ArtsATL: Atlanta’s source for arts news and reviews 2014-09-21 Kelundra Smith Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni As an MFA candidate in the Television, Film and Theatre program at California State University, Los Angeles, Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni originally set out to make a documentary about…

  • Slumming and Black-and-tan Saloons: Racial Intermingling and the Challenging of Color Lines Researching Greenwich Village History Companion site to Creating Digital History (NYU GA HIST.2033) 2011-11-04 Janice Liao The mere mention of saloons immediately conjures images of people satisfying their carnal desires by imbibing large quantities of alcohol amongst a rowdy scene of drunkards. Similar…

  • Black Legacies: Race and the European Middle Ages University Press of Florida 2014-09-02 192 pages 6×9 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-6007-1 Lynn T. Ramey, Associate Professor of French Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Black Legacies looks at color-based prejudice in the medieval and modern texts in order to reveal key similarities. Bringing far-removed time periods into startling…

  • Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history of passing explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to…