Category: History

  • An estimated 60,000 Chinese entered Mexico during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, constituting Mexico’s second-largest foreign ethnic community at the time. “The Chinese in Mexico” provides a social history of Chinese immigration to and settlement in Mexico in the context of the global Chinese diaspora of the era.

  • Rethinking Race History: The Role of the Albino in the Frence Enlightenment Life Sciences History and Theory Volume 48, Issue 3 (October 2009) pages 151–179 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2303.2009.00502.x Andrew Curran, Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures Wesleyan University The scholarly quest to recover the construction of racial difference in the Enlightenment-era life sciences generally overlooks a…

  • A Stronger Kinship: One Town’s Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith University of Nebraska Press 2007 296 pages 20 photos, 9 tables, appendix Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-6018-4 Anna-Lisa Cox In the heartland of the United States 150 years ago, where racism and hatred were common, a community decided there could be a different America. Here schools…

  • The Man Who Talks Not: John L. Clarke and the Politics of Mixed-Race Identity in Montana, 1900-1950 United States History Colloquium 2011-2012 University of California, Los Angeles History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche Hall 2012-01-19, 16:00-18:00 PST (Local Time) Andrew Graybill, Associate Professor of History Southern Methodist University A Pre-circulated Paper and Discussion with Professor Andrew…

  • The Seminole Indians of Florida: Morphology and Serology American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 32, Number 1 (January, 1970) pages 65-81 William S. Pollitzer University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Donald L. Rucknagel University of Michigan Richard E. Tashian University of Michigan Donald C. Shreffler University of Michigan Webster C. Leyshon National Institute of Dental…

  • Recently historians of slavery in the Americas have been engaged in a heated debate over the widely differing racial patterns that emerged in the slave societies of this hemisphere. Despite their often bitter disagreements over the origins of these patterns, most agree that it was the treatment and position of the ex-slave in these societies…

  • The “Quadroon-Plaçage” Myth of Antebellum New Orleans: Anglo-American (Mis)interpretations of a French-Caribbean Phenomenon Journal of Social History Published Online: 2011-11-13 DOI: 10.1093/jsh/shr059 Kenneth Aslakson, Assistant Professor of History Union College, Schenectady, New York Although Thomas Jefferson’s likely affair with his slave, Sally Hemmings, has sparked controversy since James Callender first made it public in 1802,…

  • Mulatto: Less than Human Indian Country Today 2012-01-16 Julianne Jennings Arizona State University Race is not simply about the physical description of human variation. Since its origin in Western science in the eighteenth century, race has been used both to classify and rank human beings according to inferior and superior types. Although race as a…

  • The Evolution of ‘Portuguese’ Identity: Luso-Africans on the Upper Guinea Coast from the Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century The Journal of African History Volume 40, Issue 2 (1999) pages 173-191 Peter Mark, Professor of Art History Wesleyan University, Connecticut During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century, Portugal established a trading presence along the…

  • The Forgotten Diaspora: Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World Cambridge University Press March 2011 278 pages 8 b/w illus. 3 maps 228 x 152 mm Hardback ISBN:9780521192866 Peter Mark, Professor of Art History Wesleyan University, Connecticut José da Silva Horta Universidade de Lisboa This book traces the history of…