Category: History

  • Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility, and History ed. by Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda MacDougall (review) [Haggarty] The Canadian Historical Review Volume 95, Number 3, September 2014 pages 463-465 DOI: 10.1353/can.2014.0057 Liam Haggarty Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada St-Onge, Nicole, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall (eds.), Maria Campbell (fore.), Contours of…

  • No American city’s history better illustrates both the possibilities for alternative racial models and the role of the law in shaping racial identity than New Orleans, Louisiana, which prior to the Civil War was home to America’s most privileged community of people of African descent. In the eyes of the law, New Orleans’s free people…

  • GUEST COLUMN: Brazil’s solution on race relations differs from U.S. The Tuscaloosa News Tuscaloosa, Alabama 2014-09-13 Larry Clayton, Professor of History Emeritus University of Alabama I had a friend from the Dominican Republic who came to the University of Alabama and Stillman College on a joint Fulbright appointment years ago. He was a well-known and…

  • The Octoroon: A Tragic Mulatto Enslaved by 1 Drop The Root 2014-09-09 Image of the Week: A sculpture addresses the ramifications for those who were mixed-race. John Bell, The Octoroon, 1868. Marble, 159.6 cm high. Town Hall, Blackburn, U.K. This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with…

  • Monica Pearson Show with Fanshen Cox Monica Pearson Show KISS 104FM, Atlanta Atlanta, Georgia 2014-09-14 Monica Pearson, Host Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Award-Winning Actress, Producer and Educator “One Drop of Love” Listen Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni’s radio interview with Emmy Winner Monica Pearson on KISS 104 FM in Atlanta here (00:34:47). Download the interview here.

  • One-Woman Multimedia Show ONE DROP OF LOVE Comes to The Fox Theatre, 9/21 BroadwayWorld.com Atlanta 2014-07-10 The Fox Theatre is presenting One Drop of Love on Sunday, September 21 at 3 PM and 7 PM in the Fox Theatre’s Egyptian Ballroom. The show is a multimedia solo performance exploring family, race, love, pain and a…

  • Join the Greatest Minds Society of Georgia State University for a Discussion on Racial Identity with Playwright Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni of “One Drop of Love“ Georgia State University Speaker’s Auditorium 44 Courtland Street, SE Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Thursday, 2014-09-18, 13:30-15:30 EDT (Local Time) Who are you? What’s your identity? Where do you come from? What’s…

  • From Harlem to Shenzhen: One Jamaican-Chinese Woman’s Quest to Find Her Family The Wall Street Journal 2014-09-02 Debra Bruno Growing up in New York’s Harlem, Paula Williams Madison knew she had a Chinese grandfather, even though she had never met him. When people found out, she says, most of them would make comments such as…

  • The Morristown Festival of Books is Proud to Announce the Authors for September 26 and 27, 2014 Morristown Festival of Books: Where Readers & Authors Meet Morristown, New Jersey 2014-06-24 We are pleased to present our Friday night Keynote speaker and 21 authors appearing at the all-day Saturday Festival! They will be sharing their perspectives…

  • Argentina Rediscovers Its African Roots The New York Times 2014-09-12 Michael T. Luongo The chapel in the small lakeside resort community of Chascomús is at best underwhelming. Its whitewashed brick exterior is partly obstructed by a tangle of vines and bushes, and its dim, one-room interior is no more majestic than its facade. Wooden pews…