Category: History

  • German science and black racism—roots of the Nazi Holocaust The FASEB Journal (The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) Volume 22, Number 2 (2008) pages 332-337 DOI: 10.1096/fj.08-0202ufm François Haas, Associate Professor Department of Rehabilitation Medicine New York University The Nazi’s cornerstone precept of “racial hygiene” gave birth to their policy…

  • Circe Sturm takes a bold and original approach to one of the most highly charged and important issues in the United States today: race and national identity. Focusing on the Oklahoma Cherokee, she examines how Cherokee identity is socially and politically constructed, and how that process is embedded in ideas of blood, color, and race.

  • Beyond poverty: the Negro and the Mulatto in Brazil Journal de la Société des Américanistes Volume 58 (1969) pages 121-137 DOI: 10.3406/jsa.1969.2100 Florestan Fernandes This paper was first presented, in a condensed version, at the seminars on “Minorities in Latin America and the United States”, (The College of the Finger Lakes, Corning, New York, December…

  • One of the most remarkable results of the arrival of Europeans in the New World may often be taken for granted: the emergence of the mestizo component in Latin American societies. The racial mixing that occurred in the Hispanic New World is the subject of this important study, which draws on a wide variety of…

  • Elizabeth Fenwick Adams – Did she or didn’t she? A family history mystery. Historic Places in South Jersey 2011-03-07 J. Wright Twice this past week on gloriously sunny days that smelled of spring, friends and I headed down the highway on the trail of the mystery of Elizabeth Fenwick Adams and her alleged connection with…

  • Family Histories of ‘Passing’ from Black to White Documented in Book Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2011-09-06 Katti Gray In the summer of 1993, as American-born Daniel Sharfstein registered Blacks to cast their first ballot in race-riven South Africa, he volunteered alongside a South African woman, who professed to be as authentically African as any…

  • Culture: The face in the mirror is mestizo San Antonio Current San Antonia, Texas 2006-02-22 Elaine Wolff, Current Editor Plaza de Armas A two-day roundtable takes a big eraser to identity lines “I’m looking for the mestizo eye, the mestizo subjunctive, the mestizo soul,” says author John Phillip Santos as we wander through Retratos: 2,000…

  • Colloquium – Mónica Moreno Figueroa on “Naming Ourselves: Recognising Racism and Mestizaje in Mexico” Auditorium of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center New York University 53 Washington Square South New York, New York Monday, 2011-09-12, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) Mónica Moreno Figueroa, Lecturer in Sociology Newcastle University Discussant: Frances Negrón-Muntaner Hosted by the Center…

  • Providing a unique historical perspective on how racial attitudes move from elite discourse into people’s lives, “Diploma of Whiteness” shows how public schools promoted the idea that whites were inherently fit and those of African or mixed ancestry were necessarily in need of remedial attention.

  • Caught up in a scientific racism designed to breed out the black The Sydney Morning Herald 2008-02-14 Debra Jopson She was removed as a toddler and raped as a ward of the state. Valerie Linow knows only too well the tragedy of assimilation policy, writes Debra Jopson. The stolen child Valerie Linow is certain she…