Category: History

  • Uptown Girls Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2013-09-22 Martha A. Sandweiss, Professor of History Princeton University Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, by Carla Kaplan Illustrated. 505 pp. Harper. Time hasn’t been kind to the white women who participated in the Harlem Renaissance. As philanthropists and activists, authors…

  • Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance HarperCollins Publishers 2013-09-10 544 pages Trimsize: 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 9780060882389; ISBN10: 0060882387 eBook ISBN: 9780062199126; ISBN10: 0062199129 Carla Kaplan, Stanton W. and Elisabeth K. Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts New York City in the Jazz Age was…

  • “The United States of the United Races” w/ Dr. Greg Carter Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-09-25, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Greg Carter, Associate Professor of History University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee On Today’s episode of Mixed Race Radio we will meet Professor Greg Carter, author of The United States of the…

  • Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America Oxford University Press 2010-02-16 352 Pages 15 b/w photos 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780195379792 Paperback ISBN: 9780199794454 Sharon Davies, Professor of Law; Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties; Director of the Kirwan Institute for the…

  • Creole Culture: Identity and Race in the Bayou Country Kreol Magazine October-December 2013, Issue 7 pages 42-45 Christophe Landry Louisiana is what many have come to refer to as the northern-most point of Latin America, where créolité, a Latin-based people, culture and consciousness, emerged early in the 1700s. From its earliest stages, the international melting…

  • ‘Making a Non-White America’ inside: CSUF News California State University, Fullerton 2009-08-18 Mimi Ko Cruz Allison Varzally’s Book About California’s Ethnic History Wins National Award Interracial marriages and other ties in diverse communities throughout California during the formative years of the 20th century are explored in Allison Varzally’s book, “Making a Non-White America: Californians Coloring…

  • Cane River: A Novel Grand Central Publishing 2001 560 pages 5-1/4″ x 8″ Paperback ISBN-13: 9780446678452 Lalita Tademy The “New York Times” bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club Pick—the unique and deeply moving epic of four generations of African-American women based on one family’s ancestral past.

  • Making a Non-White America: Californians Coloring outside Ethnic Lines, 1925-1955 University of California Press April 2008 318 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780520253452 E-Book ISBN: 9780520941274 Allison Varzally, Associate Professor of History California State University, Fullerton On the cover: Future R&B singer Sugar Pie DeSanto in San Francisco’s Fillmore District (circa 1940s) Winner of the 2009 Theodore…

  • Chinese Mixed Race in Transnational Comparison (Sawyer Seminar IV) University of Southern California Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Center for Japanese Religions and Culture University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML), Room: 110C 2013-09-27, 13:00-17:00 PDT (Local Time) USC Conference Convenors: Duncan Williams, Associate Professor of Religion University of Southern…

  • Purchasing Whiteness in Colonial Latin America Not Even Past: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” —William Faulkner Department of History University of Texas at Austin 2013-09-18 Ann Twinam, Professor of History University of Texas, Austin The castas, or mixed race populations, suffered numerous forms of discrimination in colonial Latin America, but in…