Category: History

  • Mistaken identity The Boston Globe 2005-02-20 Holly Jackson What if a novelist celebrated as a pioneer of African-American women’s literature turned out not to be black at all? IN THE LATE 1980s, scholars of African-American studies carried out the most impressive American literary recovery project to date, excavating and reprinting the works of numerous unjustly…

  • The Mulatto: an unspeakable concept Working Papers on the Web Department of English Studies at Sheffield Hallam University Volume 5 (September 2003) (Racial Disciplines) ISSN: 1478-3703 Julian Murphet, Senior Lecturer of English The University of Sydney The discourse of race has necessarily produced its own supplements; and there has been no more intriguing categorical supplement…

  • Plessy and Ferguson unveil plaque today marking their ancestors’ actions New Orleans Times-Picayune 2009-02-11 Katy Reckdahl Today, Plessy versus Ferguson becomes Plessy and Ferguson, when descendants of opposing parties in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court segregation case stand together to unveil a plaque at the former site of the Press Street Railroad Yards. Standing behind…

  • Petitioning subjects: miscegenation in Okinawa from 1945 to 1952 and the crisis of sovereignty Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Volume 11, Issue 3 (2010) pages 355-374 DOI: 10.1080/14649373.2010.484172 Annmaria Shimabuku, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature University of California, Riverside This paper tells a story about miscegenation between US military personnel and Okinawan women from 1945-1952, which includes…

  • Although the history of racial passing does not evoke the clearcut ethical responses that we have to slavery it is an important part of the larger story of racism and racial repression in this country. The frequency of passing is further evidence of the fraudulence of race as a meaningful construct for other than divisive…

  • “Lost Boundaries”: Racial Passing and Poverty in Segregated New Orleans The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association Volume 36, Number 3 (Summer, 1995) pages 291-312 Arthé A. Anthony, Professor of American Studies, Emeritus Occidental College, Los Angeles On sunny summer Sunday afternoons in Harlem when the air is one interminable ball game and grandma cannot…

  • From Mariage à la Mode to Weddings at Town Hall: Marriage, Colonialism, and Mixed-Race Society in Nineteenth-Century Senegal The International Journal of African Historical Studies Volume 38, Number 1 (2005) pages 27-48 Hilary Jones, Assistant Professor of African History University of Maryland The institution of marriage served as the basis for the formation of mixed-race…

  • Walking in Two Worlds: Mixed-Blood Indian Women Seeking Their Path Caxton Press 2006 264 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 0-87004-450-8 Nancy M. Peterson Nancy M. Peterson tells the stories of mixed-blood women who, steeped in the tradition of their Indian mothers but forced into the world of their white fathers, fought to find their…

  • Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany HarperCollins 480 pages 2001 ISBN: 9780060959616 Hans J. Massaquoi (1926-2013) This is a story of the unexpected. In Destined to Witness, Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir—an astonishing true tale of how he came of age as a black child in Nazi Germany. The son…

  • Sonic spaces: Inscribing “coloured” voices in the Karoo, South Africa University of Pennsylvania 2006 228 pages Publication Number: AAT 3246175 Marie R. Jorritsma A Dissertation in Music Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy A common stereotype of those classified…