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  • Wealthy free women of color in Charleston, South Carolina during slavery

    Wealthy free women of color in Charleston, South Carolina during slavery University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2007 271 pages Publication Number: AAT 3275800 ISBN: 9780549175599 Rita Reynolds, Assistant Professor of History Wagner College, Staten Island, New York This dissertation focuses on the lives and experiences of a small group of affluent free mulatto women in antebellum…

  • “Entirely Black Verse from Him Would Succeed”: Minstrel Realism and William Dean Howells

    “Entirely Black Verse from Him Would Succeed”: Minstrel Realism and William Dean Howells Nineteenth-Century Literature Volume 59, Number 4 (March 2005) pages 494-525 DOI: 10.1525/ncl.2005.59.4.494 Gene Jarrett, Associate Professor of English Boston University In the early months of 1896, James A. Herne returned to his hotel in Toledo, Ohio, the city where he was directing…

  • TV Review: Mixed Race Britain – Mixed Britannia

    TV Review: Mixed Race Britain – Mixed Britannia BioNews Number 630 (2011-10-24) Anoushka Shepherd Mixed Race Britain: Mixed Britannia, BBC2, 6-20 October 2011, Presented by George Alagiah I am mixed race, and thereby a member the fastest growing ethnic minority in the UK. My British dad met my Sri Lankan mum while travelling in the…

  • An art history mystery at Worcester Art Museum

    An art history mystery at Worcester Art Museum Metrowest Daily News Framingham, Massachusetts 2011-12-12 Chris Bergeron, Daily News Staff WORCESTER—Forget the da Vinci Code. There’s no Knight Templars or murderous albinos, but the life and death of Julien Hudson and the whereabouts of his paintings is a fascinating “art historical mystery’’ waiting to be solved.…

  • African-American Reflections on Brazil’s Racial Paradise

    African-American Reflections on Brazil’s Racial Paradise Temple University Press February 1992 276 pages 5.5 x 8.25 Cloth ISBN: 0-87722-892-2 eBook ISBN: 978-1-59213-104-4 Edited by David J. Hellwig, Professor Emeritus of Interdisciplinary Studies St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota Essays that focus on the authors’ observations of race relations in Brazil from the first decade…

  • Racial Paradise or Run-around? Afro-North American Views of Race Relations in Brazil

    Racial Paradise or Run-around? Afro-North American Views of Race Relations in Brazil American Studies Volume 46, Number 1 (Spring 2005) pages 43-60 David J. Hellwig, Professor Emeritus of Interdisciplinary Studies St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota North American students of slavery and race relations have long used comparative approaches to examine the troubling phenomena…

  • Brazilian Racial Democracy, 1900-90: An American Counterpoint

    Brazilian Racial Democracy, 1900-90: An American Counterpoint Journal of Contemporary History Volume 31, Number 3 (July 1996) pages 483-507 DOI: 10.1177/002200949603100303 George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor of History University of Pittsburgh Brazil is one of the largest multi-racial societies in the world, and the home of the largest single component of the overseas African diaspora.…

  • Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History

    “Genetics and the Unsettled Past” considers the alignment of genetic science with commercial genealogy, with legal and forensic developments, and with pharmaceutical innovation to examine how these trends lend renewed authority to biological understandings of race and history.

  • Honor Bound: Race and Shame in America

    Honor Bound: Race and Shame in America Rutgers University Press 2012-03-27 288 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5270-5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-5269-9 David Leverenz, Professor Emeritus of English University of Florida As Bill Clinton said in his second inaugural address, “The divide of race has been America’s constant curse.” In Honor Bound, David Leverenz explores the past to…

  • To Die in this Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965

    To Die in this Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965 Duke University Press 1998 336 pages 11 b&w photographs, 2 maps Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2098-2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2084-5 Jeffrey L. Gould, Rudy Professor of History Indiana University, Bloomington Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century,…