Category: History

  • People in Harmony, PIH, is hosting the first event of the Mixed Race Research Network via Zoom with a workshop and studies.

  • Plessy v. Ferguson: An Excerpt from Firsthand Louisiana University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press 2020-08-13 Devon Lord, Editor In Chief Discover the history of the Pelican State through the eyes of the people who lived it and shaped its course. In Firsthand Louisiana: Primary Sources in the History of the State, historians Janet Allured, John…

  • The Story Of J.P. Morgan’s ‘Personal Librarian’ — And Why She Chose To Pass As White Code Switch National Public Radio 2021-08-31 Karen Grigsby Bates, Senior Correspondent Marie Benedict (left) and Victoria Christopher Murray Phil Atkins This summer on Code Switch, we’re talking to some of our favorite authors about books that taught us about…

  • In 2015, the Mexican state counted how many of its citizens identified as Afro-Mexican for the first time since independence. “Finding Afro-Mexico” reveals the transnational interdisciplinary histories that led to this celebrated reformulation of Mexican national identity.

  • Black Identity and the Power of Self-Naming Black Perspectives 2021-09-10 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr., Assistant Professor of Africana Studies California State University, Long Beach Kill the Bill IV Protest in London, England, UK on May 29, 2021 (Loredana Sangiuliano, Shutterstock) Black identity is the most political social identity used to identify people of African descent…

  • Yellow Wife, A Novel Simon & Schuster2021-01-12288 pagesHardcover ISBN-13: 9781982149109Paperback ISBN-13: 9781982149116Audiobook ISBN-13: 9781797118819 (09:31:00) Sadeqa Johnson Called “wholly engrossing” by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this harrowing story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Virginia. Born on a plantation…

  • She was raped by the owner of a notorious slave jail. Later, she inherited it. The Washington Post 2020-02-01 Sydney Trent, Local enterprise reporter An engraving print of the Lumpkin Slave Jail, from Corey’s “A History of the Richmond Theological Seminary.” (City of Richmond) Robert Lumpkin was one of the South’s most prolific and brutal…

  • Work Of First African American Painter With International Reputation Explored Art Where You’re At National Public Radio 2021-09-07 Susan Stamberg, Special Correspondent Photograph of Henry Ossawa Tanner in 1907. Frederick Gutekunst (1831–1917)/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution I just met Henry Ossawa Tanner. Nice trick, since he died in 1937. Tanner was the first African American…

  • INGRID DINEEN-WIMBERLY. The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862–1916. The American Historical Review Volume 126, Issue 2 (June 2021) pages 797–798 DOI: 10.1093/ahr/rhab307 Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor, Associate Professor of History Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly. The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862–1916. (Borderlands and Transcultural Studies.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,…

  • With over 50,000 Chinese-Jamaicans residing on the Caribbean island, how did such a unique community form?