Category: History

  • When One Of New York’s Glitterati Married A ‘Quadroon’ Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-06-07 Theodore R. Johnson III Coverage of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s recent nuptial ceremony was only remarkable in what most reporters left out: he’s black, and she isn’t. The generalized lack of interest in…

  • Almost Free: A Story About Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia by Eva Sheppard Wolf (review) [Lee] Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Volume 111, Number 2, Spring 2013 pages 252-254 DOI: 10.1353/khs.2013.0034 Deborah A. Lee, PhD, Independent Historian Stanardsville, Virginia Wolf, Eva Sheppard, Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia…

  • Possessions of Whiteness: Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness in the Pacific Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society June 2014 (2014-06-02) Maile Arvin, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Riverside I confess: I avoided watching the 2011 Oscar award-winning movie The Descendants (directed by the acclaimed Alexander Payne of Sideways and Nebraska, starring George Clooney) for…

  • Seeking Roots in Shifting Ground–Dr. Laura Tugman’s topic for 18th Union, June 28 Melungeon Heritage Association: One People, All Colors 2014-05-20 18th Melungeon Union Vardy, Tennessee and Big Stone Gap, Virginia 2014-06-27 through 2014-06-28 Dr. Laura Tugman will discuss her doctoral dissertation, entitled Seeking Roots in Shifting Ground: Ethnic Identity Development and the Melungeons of…

  • ‘Belle’: Romance, Race And Slavery With Jane Austen Style National Public Radio Tell Me More 2014-05-29 Michel Martin, Host British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw was brought up on Jane Austen adaptations. “You know, the Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle was something I watched on a weekly basis with my mum at home…

  • Presentation on ‘African Heritage in Classical Music’ followed by the screening of ‘The Black Mozart in Cuba’ Marcus Garvey Library Tottenham Green Centre 1 Phillip Lane Tottenham, London N15 4JA Saturday, 2014-06-14, 17:00-20:00 BST (Local Time) Black History Studies in association with the Marcus Garvey Library presents ‘Sankofa Saturdays’ African Heritage in Classical Music Music…

  • Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia by Eva Sheppard Wolf (reweiw) [Watkins] Journal of the Early Republic Volume 33, Number 3, Fall 2013 pages 575-577 DOI: 10.1353/jer.2013.0062 Andrea S. Watkins Wolf, Eva Sheppard, Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012)…

  • The Politics of Race in Panama: Afro-Hispanic and West Indian Literary Discourses of Contention University Press of Florida 2014-04-15 200 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-4986-1 Sonja Stephenson Watson, Associate Professor of Spanish University of Texas, Arlington This volume tells the story of two cultural groups: Afro-Hispanics, whose ancestors came to Panama as…

  • Go Stand Upon the Rock CreateSpace 2014-05-20 300 pages 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 1494211564; ISBN-13: 978-1494211561 Samuel Michael Lemon, Program Director Continuing Adult and Professional Studies Neumann University, Aston, Pennsylvania From stories handed down by my grandmother about how our ancestors fought to be free. Go Stand Upon the Rock is…

  • Allyson Hobbs: Racial Passing and African American Family Life in Jim Crow America The Ethics@noon Series The McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society Stanford University 2011-02-04 Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University On February 4th, 2011 Allyson Hobbs discussed the Jim Crow era as a watershed in the history of racial passing.…