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  • Crimes of Passion: The Regulation of Interracial Sex in Washington, 1855-1950

    Crimes of Passion: The Regulation of Interracial Sex in Washington, 1855-1950 Gonzaga Law Review Volume 47, Issue 2 (Symposium: Race and Criminal Justice in the West) April, 2012 pages 393-428 Jason A. Gillmer, Professor of Law Gonzaga University School of Law Race had not mattered to Harvey Creasman and Caroline Paul. The two had lived together as…

  • The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality: Race and Regional Identity in Northeastern Brazil

    “The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality” explores conceptualizations of regional identity and a distinct population group known as nordestinos in northeastern Brazil during a crucial historical period.

  • The Social Construction of Race and Monacan Education in Amherst County, Virginia, 1908–1965: Monacan Perspectives

    The Social Construction of Race and Monacan Education in Amherst County, Virginia, 1908–1965: Monacan Perspectives History of Education Quarterly Volume 47, Issue 4 (November 2007) pages 389–415 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-5959.2007.00107.x Melanie D. Haimes-Bartolf Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia That’s all you heard, everywhere we went, or whatever we done, “oh, he’s one of those issues.” We…

  • Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego

    Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego Rutgers University Press June 2012 256 pages Hardcover ISBN-13: 9780813552835, ISBN: 0813552834 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780813552842, ISBN: 0813552842 Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., Associate Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Arizona State University, Tempe Becoming Mexipino is a social-historical…

  • We the “White”” People: Race, Culture, and the Virginia Constitution of 1902

    We the “White”” People: Race, Culture, and the Virginia Constitution of 1902 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University September 2003 92 pages Jeremy Boggs In 1902. in an effort to reestablish what they saw as whites’ natural right to control government rule over blacks, the delegates to Virginia’s Constitutional Convention of 1901-1902 declared the new…

  • The ‘Other’ from within: Afro-Germans as Scapegoats for the post-WWII German Society

    The ‘Other’ from within: Afro-Germans as Scapegoats for the post-WWII German Society Postgraduate History Conference: Creating the ‘Other’ Department of History, University of Essex 2011-09-20 Antje Friedrich Department of English Literature University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany The theme of the graduate conference this year was ‘Creating the ‘Other’’ throughout history.  We were very pleased to…

  • Imagining Jefferson and Hemings in Paris

    Imagining Jefferson and Hemings in Paris TransAtlantica: American Studies Journal 1 | 2011 : Senses of the South / Référendums populaires 10 pages, 20 paragraphs Suzanne W. Jones, Professor of English University of Richmond In Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics, cultural critic bell hooks argues that “no one seems to know how to tell…

  • The Indians and the Metis: genealogical sources on Minnesota’s earliest settlers

    The Indians and the Metis: genealogical sources on Minnesota’s earliest settlers Minnesota History Magazine Volume 46, Number 7 (Fall 1979) pages 286-296 Virginia Rogers Editors Preface GENEALOGISTS have long hesitated to do research on Minnesota’s Indian and métis or mixed-blood population. The fact that Indian and related métis peoples participated in a largely ond culture may…

  • A Seminole Warrior Cloaked in Defiance

    A Seminole Warrior Cloaked in Defiance Smithsonian Magazine October 2010 Owen Edwards A pair of woven, beaded garters reflects the spirit of Seminole warrior Osceola Infinity of nations,” a new permanent exhibition encompassing nearly 700 works of indigenous art from North, Central and South America, opens October 23 at the George Gustav Heye Center in…

  • The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, North Carolina: Their Origin and Racial Status. A Plea for Separate Schools (Electronic Edition)

    The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, North Carolina: Their Origin and Racial Status. A Plea for Separate Schools (Electronic Edition) The Seeman Printery, Durham, North Carolina 1916 65 pages George Edwin Butler (1868-1941) Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Images scanned by Tampathia Evans Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., Tampathia Evans and…