Category: History

  • In brilliant novelistic detail, award-winning historian John Bailey reconstructs the exotic sights, sounds, and smells of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, an “infernal motley crew” of cotton kings, decadent river workers, immigrants, and slaves. Miller’s dramatic trial offers an eye into the fascinating laws and customs surrounding slavery, immigration, and racial mixing.

  • A Free Man of Color Grove/Atlantic, Inc. October 2011 112 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4566-6 John Guare John Guare’s new play is astonishing, raucous, and panoramic. A Free Man of Color is set in boisterous New Orleans prior to the historic Louisiana Purchase. Before law and order took hold and class,…

  • First Annual Convention Report: Black German Cultural Society NJ Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey German Historical Institute Washington, D.C. 2011-08-19 through 2011-08-21 14 pages By Priscilla Layne and S. Marina Jones The First Annual Black German Cultural Society, NJ Convention was an important opportunity for scholars, students, and individuals personally affected by Afrogerman…

  • The Stain of White: Liaisons, Memories, and White Men as Relatives Men and Masculinities Volume 9, Number 2 (October 2006) pages 131-151 DOI: 10.1177/1097184X06287764 Janaki Abraham, Assistant Professor Women Studies Jawaharlal Neru University During British colonial rule some matrilineal Thiyya women in North Kerala, India, had liaisons with British men. While the response of the…

  • “Free People of Color” in Old Virginia: The Morris Family of Gloucester County, a Case Study Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2011-11-10 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Back in 1977, when I was a junior in college, history became a personal venture for me when an African…

  • Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers and Other Untold Stories UCLA American Indian Studies Center 2009 375 pages 10-digit ISBN: 0-935626-59-X 13-digit ISBN: 978-0-935626-59-9 William S. Yellow Robe Jr., Playwright, Director, Poet, Actor, Writer, and Educator Edited by: Margo Lukens, Associate Professor of English University of Maine Five Plays by William S. Yellow Robe Jr. This…

  • Race, Reproduction and Family Romance in Moreau de Saint-Mery’s Description. ..de la partie francaise de l’isle Saint Domingue Eighteenth-Century Studies Volume 38, Number 2, Winter 2005 pages 227-246 DOI: 10.1353/ecs.2005.0008 Doris Lorraine Garraway, Associate Professor of French Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois This paper analyzes the colonial jurist and historian Moreau de Saint-Méry’s racial classification system…

  • The French colonial question and the disintegration of white supremacy in the Colony of Saint Domingue, 1789-1792 The University of North Carolina, Wilmington 2005 94 pages Molly M. Herrmann A Thesis Submitted to the University of North Carolina Wilmington in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts This thesis argues…

  • Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780–1880 Johns Hopkins University Press 2007 344 pages 11 halftones, 2 line drawings Hardback ISBN: 9780801886942; Paperback ISBN: 9780801898198 Daniel R. Mandell, Professor of History Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri Winner, 2008 Lawrence W. Levine Award, Organization of American Historians Tribe, Race, History examines American Indian…

  • Hybrid Zones: Representations of Race in Late Nineteenth-Century French Visual Culture University of Kansas April 2011 358 pages Publication Number: AAT 3456911 ISBN: 9781124667348 Rozanne McGrew Stringer In this study, I examine images of the black female and black male body and the female Spanish Gypsy by four artists—Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Frédéric Bazille, and…