Category: History

  • Dr. J .T. Mills: Helping Students Explore Concepts of Race Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-06-19, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host John T. Mills, Assistant Director of Multicultural Affairs Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersery Legitimate knowledge regarding the construction of race in America is absent in today’s youth and college aged students.…

  • A Continent Divided: The U.S.-Mexico War Center for Greater Southwestern Studies University of Texas at Arlington 2013-06-18 The Center for Greater Southwestern Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington announces the launch of a new website, A Continent Divided: The U.S.-Mexico War. Drawn from the holdings of UT Arlington’s Special Collections, long recognized as…

  • Of Racism and Remembrance Common-Place A Common Place, an Uncommon Voice Volume 1, Number 4, July 2001 Aaron Garrett, Associate Professor of Philosophy Boston University Is interest in the racism of past and hallowed philosophers and statesmen the obsession of a politically correct society gone amok? Or is it an acknowledgement of the ways in…

  • There is No There There: Women and Intermarriage in the Southwestern Borderlands Common-Place A Common Place, An Uncommon Voice Volume 13, Number 3, Spring 2013 Amanda Taylor-Montoya Amanda Taylor-Montoya is an independent scholar living in southern New Mexico. Borderlands are fuzzy, slippery, ambiguous places. Whether imagined as a geographic region straddling an international border, “the…

  • She was a black woman, and she flouted convention. In an age that put ladies in the parlor and preferred them to be seen and not heard, she was nursing the British wounded, not in hospital wards with Florence Nightingale but on the Crimean battlefields—and off them, she was running a restaurant and hotel. She…

  • The Law Could Make You Rich Common-Place A Common Place, An Uncommon Voice Extra Issue: Volume 13, Number 3.5 (June 2013) Jared Hardesty Department of History Boston College Jared Hardesty is a PhD candidate in history at Boston College and is currently writing a dissertation on slavery, freedom, and unfreedom in eighteenth-century Boston Julie Winch,…

  • More Talk Radio on 06/17/13 [with Professor Greg Carter] More Talk Radio KBOO Community Radio Portland, Oregon 2013-06-17, 15:00-16:00Z, 08:00-09:00 PDT (Local Time) The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of Racial Mixing Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod interview Greg Carter about his new book “The United States of the United…

  • Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil Cambridge University Press December 1997 412 pages 228 x 152 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521585903 Hardback ISBN: 9780521584555 Anthony W. Marx, President and CEO New York Public Library In this bold, original and persuasive book, Anthony W. Marx provocatively links the construction…

  • In Buenos Aires, Researchers Exhume Long-Unclaimed African Roots The Washington Post 2005-05-05 Monte Reel BUENOS AIRES — Their disappearance is one of Argentina’s most enduring mysteries. In 1810, black residents accounted for about 30 percent of the population of Buenos Aires. By 1887, however, their numbers had plummeted to 1.8 percent. So where did they…

  • Blackout: How Argentina ‘Eliminated’ Africans From Its History And Conscience International Business Times New York, New York 2013-06-04 Palash Ghosh, Senior Writer, World Tens of millions of black Africans were forcibly removed from their homelands from the 16th century to the 19th century to toil on the plantations and farms of the New World. This…