Category: History

  • The First Black Prairie Novel: Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance’s Autobiography and the Repression of Prairie Blackness Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes Volume 45, Number 2 (Spring 2011) pages 31-57 E-ISSN: 1911-0251; Print ISSN: 0021-9495 DOI: 10.1353/jcs.2011.0022 Karina Vernon, Assistant Professor of English University of Toronto This essay situates Chief Buffalo Child’s Long Lance:…

  • A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Métis, and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832 University of Nebraska Press 2000 233 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-8293-3 Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Professor of History Ohio State University, Newark In A Gathering of Rivers, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy traces the histories of Indian, multiracial, and mining communities in the western Great…

  • Public Ceremonies and Mulatto Identity in Viceregal Lima: A Colonial Reenactment of the Fall of Troy (1631) Colonial Latin American Review Volume 16, Issue 2 (2007) pages 179-201 DOI: 10.1080/10609160701644490 José R. Jouve-Martín, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada Colonial Spanish America was a highly ritualized society. From single events to…

  • Racial group boundaries and identities: People of ‘mixed‐race’ in slavery across the Americas Slavery & Abolition Volume 15, Issue 3 (1994) pages 17-37 DOI: 10.1080/01440399408575137 Stephen Small, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley One of the fundamental developments to arise as a result of the settling of the Americas by Europeans…

  • The Color of Citizenship: Race, Modernity and Latin American / Hispanic Political Thought Oxford University Press November 2011 288 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 Hardback ISBN13: 9780199746668; ISBN10: 0199746664 Diego A. von Vacano, Assistant Professor of Political Science Texas A&M University The role of race in politics, citizenship, and the state is one of the most…

  • Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia. – book reviews Journal of Social History Volume 28, Number 2 (Winter 1994) George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor of History University of Pittsburgh Peter Wade, Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, 432 pages, Paperback…

  • Racial mixture and civil war: The histories of the U.S. South and Mexico in the novels of William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes Michigan State University 2008 266 pages Publication Number: AAT 3331903 ISBN: 9780549837800 Emron Lee Esplin, Assistant Professor of English and American Studies Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia A Dissertation Submitted to Michigan State…

  • The arrival of Europeans in the Caribbean brought about irreversible demographic change. Decimated by defeat and disease, ‘peaceful’ Arawaks and ‘warlike’ Caribs alike ceased to exist as an identifiable ethnic group, their gene pool dissolving into that of the newcomers, where it died away or remained un-investigated.

  • Half-Hearted Loving The Faculty Lounge: Conversations about law, culture, and academia 2011-06-13 Kevin Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Yesterday, June 12, marked the annual celebration of Loving Day.  This event commemorated the 1967 Supreme Court case of Loving v. Virginia, which invalidated the state’s Racial Integrity Act that prohibited interracial marriages.  Notably, Virginia’s…

  • Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past University of California Press November 2003 332 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780520240704 David R. Roediger, Babcock Professor of History University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign David R. Roediger’s powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a “still white” nation.…