Category: History

  • Bengali Harlem The Brian Lehrer Show WNYC 93.9 FM/ 820 AM 2013-01-11 Brian Lehrer, Host Vivek Bald, Assistant Professor of Writing and Digital Media Massachusetts Institute of Technology Vivek Bald, documentary director and assistant professor of writing and digital media at MIT and the author of Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian…

  • Opinion: Black Americans must embrace true colors In America: You define America. What defines you? Cable News Network (CNN) 2012-12-15 Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan Editor’s note: Historian and author Tiya Miles is a professor at the University of Michigan’s Afroamerican and African…

  • Race and Identity in the Dominican Republic: A Complex Topic CIEE Santiago, DR Service Learning Blog CIEE Study Abroad Council on International Educational Exchange 2012-09-18 Hannah Loppnow St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin One piece of advice that really resonated with me from the first day of orientation was “put yourself out there.” We were…

  • President Obama on “The View” Sojourners: Faith in Action for Social Justice 2010-08-02 Valerie Elverton Dixon Just Peace Theory President Obama visited with the five hosts of the ABC daytime talk show “The View.” People complained. He should have gone to the Boy Scout gathering. The office of the presidency ought to be above such…

  • Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House Paradigm Publishers February 2011 288 pages 6″ x 9″ Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-59451-833-1 EBook ISBN: 978-1-61205-000-3 Kenneth T. Walsh This book examines the intertwined relationships between the presidents and the African Americans who have been an integral part of the White House since the beginning…

  • A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic (review) Civil War History Volume 52, Number 2, June 2006 pages 180-182 DOI: 10.1353/cwh.2006.0034 Michael A. Morrison, Associate Professor of History Purdue University A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic. By Bruce Dain. (Cambridge: Harvard University…

  • A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic Harvard University Press February 2003 334 pages 6 x 9-15/16 inches Hardcove ISBN: 9780674009462 Bruce Dain, Associate Professor of History University of Utah The intellectual history of race, one of the most pernicious and enduring ideas in American history, has remained segregated…

  • Discovery of his roots leads him to track history of Chinese in Mexico UCLA Today Faculty and Staff News 2010-12-06 Letisia Marquez Growing up in a predominantly white Los Angeles County suburb, Robert Chao Romero, an assistant professor of Chicana and Chicano studies, learned to hide his Chinese background.   The son of a Chinese…

  • Don’t consign Mary Seacole to history, Michael Gove is urged The Independent London, England 2013-01-04 Kevin Rawlinson Petition launched to prevent Crimean War nurse being written out of school textbooks Leading black Britons have united to urge the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, to abandons his plan to remove the country’s most celebrated black historical figure…

  • The Transpacific Shift in Mixed-Race Studies: Sawyer Seminar II University of Southern California, Univeristy Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) East Asian Seminar Room (110C) Friday, 2013-02-08, 10:00-16:00 PST (Local Time) Presented by the Center for Japanese Religions and Culture’s “Critical Mixed-Race Studies: A Transpacific Approach” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminars Series…