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  • President Alexandre Pétion: Founder of Agrarian Democracy in Haiti and Pioneer of Pan-Americanism

    President Alexandre Pétion: Founder of Agrarian Democracy in Haiti and Pioneer of Pan-Americanism Phylon (1940-1956) Volume 2, Number 3 (Third Quarter, 1941) pages 205-213 Dantès Bellegarde (1877-1966) [Biography in French] The history of Haiti is dominated by four great men who fought and worked for its independence: Toussaint Louverture, Dessalines, Christophe and Pétion. Toussaint is the…

  • Barack Obama: The Road from Moneygall

    Barack Obama: The Road from Moneygall Brandon Books June 2010 288 pages ISBN: 9780863224065 (hb); 9780863224133 (pb) Steve MacDonogh (1949-2010), Editorial Director A unique exploration of the president’s Irish ancestral origins. In his presidential election acceptance speech, Barack Obama evoked a story of great change in America, and an America made up of many strands.…

  • Freedom’s Child: The Life of a Confederate General’s Black Daughter

    Freedom’s Child: The Life of a Confederate General’s Black Daughter Algonquin Books 1998 288 pages ISBN: 9781565121867 Carrie Allen McCray (1913-2008) When Carrie Allen McCray was a child, she was afraid to ask about the framed photograph of a white man on her mother’s dresser. Years later she learned that he was her grandfather, a…

  • “Race” & Ethnicity in Society in Social-Historical Context (AAS-SOC 338)

    “Race” & Ethnicity in Society in Social-Historical Context (AAS-SOC 338) Lehman College, City University of New York Spring 2012 Mark Christian, Professor & Chair of African & African American Studies The idea of “race” since the 18th Century, and up to the present, has brought forth tremendous social inequality and, not to be over-dramatic, “social…

  • Study provides first genetic evidence of long-lived African presence within Britain

    Study provides first genetic evidence of long-lived African presence within Britain University of Leicester Press Release 2007-01-24 Research reveals African origins in the UK and US New research has identified the first genetic evidence of Africans having lived amongst “indigenous” British people for centuries. Their descendants, living across the UK today, were unaware of their…

  • The decline of Jamaica’s interracial households and the fall of the planter class, 1733–1823

    The decline of Jamaica’s interracial households and the fall of the planter class, 1733–1823 Atlantic Studies Volume 9, Issue 1, (January, 2012)  (Special Issue: Rethinking the Fall of the Planter Class) pages 107-123 DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2012.637002 Daniel Livesay, Assistant Professor of History Drury University, Springfield, Missouri The theory of planter decline traditionally implied that social and…

  • African and American: The Contact of Negro and Indian

    African and American: The Contact of Negro and Indian Science Magazine Volume 17, Number 419 (1891-02-13) pages 85-90 DOI: 10.1126/science.ns-17.419.85 The history of the negro on the continent of America has been studied from various points of view, but id every instance with regard alone to his contact with the white race. It must be,…

  • Tale of a ‘Seditionist’–The Lawrence Dennis Story

    Tale of a ‘Seditionist’–The Lawrence Dennis Story AntiWar.com 2000-04-29 Justin Raimondo War infects and weakens our republican form of government, spreads social and political diseases throughout the body politic—but is, as Randolph Bourne put it, “the health of the State.” The State, in wartime, is glorified and empowered: the militarization of society means that all…

  • For black Americans, multi-racialism is not new

    For black Americans, multi-racialism is not new The Daily Voice 2008-12-17 Sitafa Harden Clearly President-elect Barack Obama, the son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, is multi-racial. The only question is what’s so new about that? In a recent article, AP race and ethnicity writer Jesse Washington explored the issue of…

  • The History of the Idea of Race… And Why it Matters

    The position taken by many anthropologists, both biological and social, and increasingly many other scholars in the social sciences is that “race is a cultural construct.” It should be clear that this is not a definition or even a characterization of “race,” but an assertion about the scholarly or existential domain in which we can…