Category: History

  • The Chinese in Mexico: No Longer a Forgotten History Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-10-09, 21:00Z (17:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles On Today’s episode of Mixed Race Radio we will meet Professor Robert Chao Romero. With…

  • One Drop of Love: Finding the Love in the One-drop Rule through Documentary Storytelling and Performance California State University, Los Angeles May 2013 84 pages Fanshen DiGiovanni A Project Report Presented to The Faculties of the Departments of Television, Film & Media Studies, and Music, Theatre & Dance In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for…

  • Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History by Kathleen López (review) Journal of Latin American Geography Volume 12, Number 3, 2013 pages 234-236 DOI: 10.1353/lag.2013.0049 Joseph L. Scarpaci, Professor Emeritus of Geography Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Kathleen López, Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013) The new millennium cast…

  • United States of the United Races – Great Resource for Storytellers Mixed Roots Stories: Strengthening and celebrating diverse Mixed communities through the power of sharing stories 2013-10-02 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Playwright, Producer, Actress, Educator Greg Carter, The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of Racial Mixing (New York: New York University Press,…

  • Marginalizing Métis histories through Treaty Territory Acknowledgment Big M Musings 2013-10-03 Chris Andersen, Research and Associate Professor of Native Studies University of Alberta In the last decade or so, it has become a fairly accepted practice in Indigenous Studies circles for scholars presenting on Indigenous issues to begin their talks with some form of acknowledgment…

  • The Drock Story (Second Edition) Our Family Tree – Ancestors of Donald W.L. Roddy and Related Family Lines August 2005 29 pages Donald W. L. Roddy (From Research by: Daryl Y. [Hooper] Holmes and Donald W. L. Roddy) 1730 – Norwich, Connecticut: My great-great-great-great-great grandfather, Guy Drock, was probably born sometime between 1726 and 1742,…

  • Descendants of Norwich slave, owner meet Norwich Bulletin Norwich, Connecticut 2012-03-29 Adam Benson Norwich, Conn.—When descendants of Norwich slave Guy Drock and the man who owned him met  for the first time Thursday, they weren’t sure what would happen. Grant Hayter-Menzies’ fifth-generation great-grandfather, Capt. Benejah Bushnell, owned Drock for a decade in the mid-1700s in…

  • “Slavery, Freedom and Reunion in a Colonial Connecticut Town” with Grant Hayter-Menzies, Daryl D’Angelo and Donald Roddy Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2013-10-03, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2013-10-04, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host In June 1759, Norwich, Connecticut businessman Benajah Bushnell sold Guy Drock, a slave of African ancestry, to Sarah Powers,…

  • Never-Ending Story The New York Times 2013-09-27 A. O. Scott, Chief Film Critic ‘Conversation About Race’ Has Not Brought Cultural Consensus The “conversation about race” that public figures periodically claim to desire, the one that is always either about to happen or is being prevented from happening, has been going on, at full volume, at…

  • Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 University Press of Mississippi 2005 224 pages bibliography, index Cloth ISBN: 9781578067053 Paper ISBN: 9781604732474 Alex Lubin, Associate Professor of American Studies University of New Mexico Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 studies the meaning of interracial romance, love, and sex in the…