Category: History

  • Black into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought Duke University Press 1974 334 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-1320-5 Thomas E. Skidmore, Emeritus Professor of History Brown University Published to wide acclaim in 1974, Thomas E. Skidmore’s intellectual history of Brazilian racial ideology has become a classic in the field. Available for the first time in…

  • The Place of Miscegenation Laws within Historical Scholarship about Slavery The Literary Lawyer: A Forum for the Legal and Literary Communities 2011-05-17 Allen Porter Mendenhall The following post appeared at The Literary Table. Miscegenation laws, also known as anti-miscegenation laws, increasingly have attracted the attention of scholars of slavery over the last half-century. Scholarship on…

  • Racialised relations in Liverpool: A contemporary anomaly   Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Volume 17, Issue 4 (1991) pages 511-537 DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.1991.9976265 Stephen Small, Associate Professor, African American Studies; Associate Director of the Institute of International Studies; Director, The Rotary International Center for Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution University of California, Berkeley The…

  • Exploring Grays in a Black-and-White World Miller-McCune 2011-07-19 Julia M. Klein Two new books explore the intersection of race and identity in America by investigating families whose biracial members might—or might not—“pass” as white. Defining racial identity in the United States has always been a fraught enterprise, involving shifting intersections of law, custom, class, ancestry…

  • Ambiguities of Race: Science on the Reproductive Frontier of Australia and the Pacific Between the Wars Australian Historical Studies Volume 40, Issue 2, 2009 pages 143-160 DOI: 10.1080/10314610902849302 Warwick Anderson, Professor of History University of Sydney The attitudes of Australian biologists, anthropologists, and historians toward race mixing in the early-twentieth century should be viewed in…

  • Children of Colonialism: Anglo-Indians in a Postcolonial World Berg Publishers (an imprint of Macmillan) October 2001 272 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-85973-531-2, ISBN10: 1-85973-531-2 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-85973-632-6, ISBN10: 1-85973-632-7 Lionel Caplan, Emeritus Professor and Professorial Research Associate School of Oriental and African Studies University of London Among the legacies of…

  • Victoria Bynum to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #220-Victoria Bynum When: Wednesday, 2011-08-10, 21:00Z (17:00 EDT,…

  • Racial attitudes and the Anglo‐Indians perceptions of a community before and after independence South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Volume 6, Issue 2 (1983) pages 34-45 DOI: 10.1080/00856408308723045 Coralie Younger University of Sydney The question of racial attitudes between the rulers and the ruled, and whites and non-whites has evoked attention from numerous authors.…

  • From Invisible Man to “New People”: The Recent Discovery of American Mulattoes Phylon (1960-) Volume 46, Number 2 (2nd Quarter, 1985) pages 106-122 Patricia Morton It might well seem obvious what the following persons have in common: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Walter White, Horace Mann Bond, Julian Bond, Martin Luther King, Jr.,…

  • Mixed Race Season BBC Press Office BBC Two Summer & Autumn 2011 Diverse, stimulating and rewarding television on BBC Two 2011-06-22 Mixed-race Britain is put under the spotlight this autumn in a collection of revealing new programmes. With a mix of drama and documentaries, the season provides a window into the varied lives of mixed-race…