Category: History

  • Researchers discuss origins of Melungeon heritage at annual event WCBY.com (News 5) Brisol, Virginia 2014-06-28 Olivia Caridi BIG STONE GAP, Va. – Wayne Winkler discovered he was a Melungeon at 12 years old. His grandmother is a Melungeon. His father is, too. “I had never heard the word, so I asked my relatives what a Melungeon…

  • Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference by Anne Pollock (review) Bulletin of the History of Medicine Volume 88, Number 2, Summer 2014 pages 393-395 DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2014.0025 Lundy Braun, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Africana Studies Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Anne Pollock, Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference…

  • The racist face of Brazil’s miscegenation Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent 2013-05-22 Jarid Arraes Cariri, Ceará, Brasil The issue of miscegenation in Brazil is often oversimplified and romanticized. It is not uncommon to hear that Brazil is a mestiço (mixed race) and plural country and, consequently, all…

  • On the Mexican Mestizo Latin American Research Review Volume 14, Number 3 (1979) pages 153-168 John K. Chance, Professor of Anthropology Arizona State Univerisity No one with even a passing acquaintance with the literature on Mexican society, not to mention the rest of Spanish America, can fail to be impressed by the frequent use of…

  • Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation University of North Carolina Press May 2009 328 pages 36 illus., 5 tables, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5934-6 Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr., Associate Professor of History; Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University, New York For most of the first half…

  • Search through own heritage leads evangelist to story about enslaved mixed-race pastor The Advocate Baton Rouge, Louisiana 2014-06-16 Mark H. Hunter, Special to The Advocate If local school district officials knew then what Sammy Tippit knows now, he might not have been allowed to attend Istrouma High School. Tippit, 66, is a world-renowned evangelist who…

  • Black Identity and Racism Collide in Brazil The Root 2014-06-17 Dion Rabouin The country’s complex history with race gains the spotlight as the World Cup attempts to address the recent wave of racist attacks against black players. Before teams representing their countries from around the world arrived in Brazil, the country’s president, Dilma Rousseff, took…

  • Still Jewish: A History of Women and Intermarriage in America New York University Press February 2009 325 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780814757307 Paper ISBN: 9780814764343 Keren R. McGinity, Author-Educator Love & Tradition: intermarriage insights for a Jewish future Over the last century, American Jews married outside their religion at increasing rates. By closely examining the intersection…

  • Thanks, Belle, it’s nice to see a face like mine on screen The Guardian (The Observer) 2014-06-07 Ashley Clark In giving top billing to Gugu Mbatha-Raw, the film Belle makes a real contribution to raising awareness of the mixed-race experience My heart leaps whenever I see the poster for Amma Asante’s new film, Belle, high…