Category: History

  • Spinning on Margins: An Analysis of Passing as Communicative Phenomenon Queen: a journal of rhetoric and power Special Issue: Rehtorics of identity: Place, Race, Sex and the Person (January 2005) From the conference held from 2005-01-20 through 2005-01-22 at the University of Redlands 21 pages Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Acts of black-to-white…

  • The Origins of Mixed Race Populations New African January 2005 Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts While rape played a huge part in the origins of Africa and the Diaspora’s mixed race populations, it is wrong to attribute it all to rape, argues Carina Ray. In the…

  • Rewriting a slave’s journey Trinidad and Tobago Newsday 2012-04-29 Corey Connelly In his latest publication, Caribbean History from Pre-Colonial Origins to the Present, Dr Tony Martin recaps the many social, economic and political phenomena that have shaped world history over the centuries. However, the renowned historian tackles the topics in an unapologetically fresh and detailed…

  • Children of the banished dragon The Daily Post Liverpool, England 2006-01-23 Lew Baxter Lew Baxter reports on a shameful episode after World War II when Chinese sailors who had risked their lives for Britain were deported back to China, many leaving behind distraught British wives and children. Even 60 years later, tears and trauma trail…

  • Eurasians: The First British Born Chinese? DimSum: The British Chinese community website 2007-06-30 Yvonne Foley I am a Eurasian.  I am the daughter of an English mother and a Shanghai father.  In traditional Chinese culture, having a Chinese father, I am regarded as being Chinese. I am part of a community that has been around…

  • When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote: African-Native American Literature University of Illinois Press 2003 328 pages 6 x 9 in. Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-02819-9 Edited by: Jonathan Brennan, Professor of English Mission College, Santa Clara, California An exploration of the literature, history, and culture of people of mixed African-Native American descent An exploration of the literature, history,…

  • “Spectacular wickedness”: New Orleans, prostitution, and the politics of sex, 1897-1917 Yale University May 2005 274 pages Publication Number: AAT 3168932 ISBN: 9780542049149 Emily Epstein Landau A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy This dissertation is a history of the…

  • Missed Opportunities and the Problem of Mohawk Chief John Norton’s Cherokee Ancestry Ethnohistory Volume 59, Number 2 (Spring 2012) pages 261-291 DOI: 10.1215/00141801-1536885 Carl Benn, Professor of History Ryerson University John Norton (1770–1831?) was one of the most important Iroquois leaders in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and the author of a thousand-page…

  • Neither Enemies nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos Palgrave Macmillan April 2005 352 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6567-7, ISBN10: 1-4039-6567-6 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4039-6568-4, ISBN10: 1-4039-6568-4 Anani Dzidzienyo, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Portuguese & Brazilian Studies Brown University Suzanne Oboler, Professor of Latin American and Latina/o Studies John Jay College…

  • As an introduction to this Special Issue of The Journal of Pan African Studies focusing on skin bleaching and global White supremacy, the purpose of this paper is to critically examine the symbolic significance of whiteness, particularly for and among African people, by outlining the history of global White supremacy, both politically and ideologically, discussing…