Category: History

  • Forging People: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Hispanic American and Latino/a Thought University of Notre Dame Press 2011 376 pages ISBN 10: 0-268-02982-2 ISBN 13: 978-0-268-02982-1 Edited by: Jorge J. E. Gracia, Samuel P. Capen Chair; SUNY Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature State University of New York, Buffalo Forging People explores the way…

  • Review: Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego Southern California Quarterly Volume 94, Number 4 (Winter 2012) pages 492-494 DOI: 10.1525/scq.2012.94.4.492 Alex Jacoby Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in Sun Diego. By Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. (New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2012. 256 pp.) In the last decade there…

  • In their quest for greater political participation within shifting imperial fields—from Spanish (1850s–1898) to US rule (1898-)—Puerto Ricans struggled to shape and contain conversations about race. In so doing, they crafted, negotiated, and imposed on others multiple forms of silences while reproducing the idea of a unified, racially mixed, harmonious nation.

  • Where Ethnicity Was Fluid The New York Times 2012-12-29 Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent In “Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America” (Harvard University Press, $35), Vivek Bald, who teaches writing and digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has produced an engaging account of a largely untold wave of immigration:…

  • On This Day: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement University of North Carolina 2012-12-05 Alison Shay On December 5, 1925—87 years ago today—the jury in the annulment trial Rhinelander v. Rhinelander found in favor of a mixed-race woman sued for marriage annulment by her white husband. Leonard Kip Rhinelander, a wealthy white…

  • Race, ideas, and ideals: A comparison of Franz Boas and Hans F.K. Günther History of European Ideas Volume 32, Issue 3, 2006 pages 313-332 DOI: 10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2006.05.001 Amos Morris-Reich, Director of the Bucerius Institute Department of Jewish History University of Haifa, Israel This article compares two radically opposed views concerning “race” in the first half of…

  • The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatán Stanford University Press 2009 456 pages 39 tables, 4 figures, 13 illustrations, 11 maps. Cloth ISBN: 9780804749831 Matthew Restall, Professor of Latin American History and Director of Latin American Studies Pennsylvania State University The Black Middle is the first full-length study of black African slaves and…

  • U-M’s Understanding Race Project examines issues at heart of the human experience, advances national conversation on race University of Michigan News Release 2012-12-19 Contacts: Frank Provenzano, (734) 647-4411 Maryanne George, (734) 615-6514 Deborah Greene, (734) 763-4008 Twitter hashtags: #UnderstandRace, #UMtheme   ANN ARBOR—Few subjects provoke as strong a visceral response as the topic of race.…

  • The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatán (review) Enterprise & Society Volume 13, Number 4, December 2012 pages 932-934 Jeremy Baskes, Professor of History Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio Visitors to modern day Yucatán encounter a region rich in indigenous culture; guidebooks extol the grandeur of ancient Maya kingdoms whose ruins still…

  • Passing for Black in Seventeenth-Century Maryland Chapter in: Interpreting the Early Modern World: Transatlantic Perspectives Springer 2011 246 pages eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-70759-4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-70758-7 Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2709-4 Edited by: Mary C. Beaudry and James Symonds Chapter Authors: Julia A. King, Associate Professor of Anthropology St. Mary’s College of Maryland Edward E. Chaney In the…