Category: History

  • Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871–1921 (review) [Allan Cho] University of Toronto Quarterly Volume 81, Number 3, Summer 2012 pages 690-691 DOI: 10.1353/utq.2012.0090 Allan Cho, Program Services Librarian University of British Columbia As part of a new collective at the University of British Columbia re-envisaging the landscape and boundaries of…

  • Parallels to country’s racist past haunt age of Obama Cable News Network In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-11-01 John Blake, CNN This is the second in an occasional series on issues of race, identity and politics ahead of Election Day, including a look at the optics of politics, a white Southern Democrat…

  • Social Washington: the “Colored” Aristocracy Edwardian Promenade 2009-01-08 Evangeline Holland From the end of Reconstruction until the Great War, Washington was the center of the black aristocracy. Nowhere else in the United States possessed such a concentration of “old families,” not merely from the District and nearby Maryland and Virginia, but from throughout the country,…

  • Winton Triangle history in Chicago! Chowan Discovery Group 2012-11-06 Marvin Jones In Chicago, the CDG got the opportunity to introduce our history to a national audience of academics and students at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at DePaul University in Chicago. Writer Lars Adams, of the Chowanoke Descendants website, presented the history of the…

  • An interdisciplinary study on the myth of racial democracy in Brazil through the prism of producers of Afro-Brazilian culture.

  • Fathers of Conscience with Bernie D. Jones Research at the National Archives & Beyond Blogtalk Radio 2012-11-08, 21:00 EST (2012-11-09, 02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Co-Host Natonne Elaine Kemp, Co-Host Bernie D. Jones, Associate Professor of Law Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South Bernice Bennett and Natonne Elaine Kemp welcome…

  • Is Elizabeth Warren an Indian? The Aporetic 2012-09-27 Mike O’Malley The ques­tion posed above is extremely hard to answer. She doesn’t “look like an indian.” But what do Indians look like? Just to recap: Elizabeth Warren is run­ning for the Sen­ate in Massachusetts. She’s been widely mocked for claiming herself as “native Ameri­can” at var­i­ous…

  • Anatole Broyard’s Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir Journal of American Ethnic History Volume 32, Number 1 (Fall 2012) pages 95-100 DOI: 10.5406/jamerethnhist.32.1.0095 Greg Carter, Associate Professor of History University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee I DESIGNED MY FIRST COURSE, Mixed Race Identity in American Culture, an elective surveying the history of racial mixing in…

  • Race, Religion, and Law in Colonial India. Trials of an Interracial Family [Review] Reviews in History: Covering books and digital resources across all fields of history October 2012 Peter Robb, Research Professor of the History of India School of Oriental and African Studies University of London Race, Religion, and Law in Colonial India. Trials of…

  • Spirometry, Measurement, and Race in the Nineteenth Century Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Volume 60, Number 2, April 2005 pages 135-169 Lundy Braun, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Medical Science and Africana Studies Brown University Race correction is a common practice in contemporary pulmonary medicine that involves…