Category: History

  • Recasting Race after World War II: Germans and African Americans in American-Occupied Germany University Press of Colorado 2007 320 9 b&w photos Cloth ISBN: 978-0-87081-869-1 Timothy L. Schroer, Associate Professor of History University of West Georgia Historian Timothy L. Schroer’s Recasting Race after World War II explores the renegotiation of race by Germans and African…

  • Daniel Sharfstein, “The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White” Penguin, 2011 New Books in African American Studies Discussions with Scholars of African Americans about their New Books 2011-11-01 Vershawn Young, Associate Professor of English University of Kentucky Daniel Sharfstein’s The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret…

  • Escape into Whiteness The New York Review of Books 2011-11-24 Brent Staples Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. 415 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9781594202827. Tickets to the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial were a hot item in the spring of…

  • Post-Raciality or a Re-Imagining of Whiteness: an Interview with Clarence E. Walker Platform: Journal of Media and Communication Volume 3, Issue 1, Media and “Race” (April 2011) pages 26-34 ISSN: 1836-5132 Sandy Watson, University of Melbourne, Australia Clarence Walker is recognised as one of the leading historians of American race relations, and is noted for…

  • “Transnational Crossroads” explores and triangulates for the first time the interactions and contacts among these three cultural groups that were brought together by the expanding American empire from 1867 to 1950.

  • Bridgetower – Black Musicians and British Culture, 1807-2007 Gresham College 2007-07-02 Mike Phillips, Professor of Music Gresham College George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, the son of an Abyssinian slave, was hailed as a musical prodigy in the eighteenth century. Taught by Haydn, his appearance at the court in Windsor to play in front of George III…

  • The 2012 Lorraine W. Frank Lecture & Humanities Awards: Featuring Rita Dove Arizona Humanities Council Tempe Mission Palms 60E. 5th Street Tempe, Arizona 85281 2012-04-12 Free & Open to the Public In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Arizona Humanities Council is proud to present Rita Dove as the keynote speaker for the 2012 Lorraine…

  • From Barefoot Madonna to Maggie the Ripper Kendall Blog Kendall College of Art and Design Ferris State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan 2011-11-07 Pamela Patton, Editor Kendall Portfolio Margaret Garner or The Modern Medea (1867) I always find lectures by visiting art historians fascinating. Looking at works of art in historical context, examining the details, and hearing…

  • Doctor’s quest to engineer a “master race” in the early 1900s still hurting Virginia’s Indian tribes WTVR-CBS 6 TV Richmond, Virginia 2011-07-12 Mark Holmberg, Staff reporter RICHMOND— Richmond’s famous Hollywood Cemetery serves as the final resting place of presidents, statesmen and generals. Few have had the impact of Dr. Walter Plecker. His stormy legacy continues…

  • At the turn of the twentieth century, a wave of Chinese men made their way to the northern Mexican border state of Sonora to work and live. The ties—and families—these Mexicans and Chinese created during led to the formation of a new cultural identity: Chinese Mexican.