Category: History

  • Studies of some sturdy examples of the simple live, toghether with sketches of early colonial history of Cumberland county and Southern New Jersey and some early genealogical records.

  • Martin de Porres Wikipedia Martin de Porres (December 9, 1579 – November 3, 1639) was a lay brother of the Dominican Order who was beatified in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI and canonized in 1962 by Pope John XXIII. He is the patron saint of mixed-race people and all those seeking interracial harmony.   He…

  • Looking at the history of racial thinking, “Becoming Yellow” explores the notion of yellowness and shows that this label originated not in early travel texts or objective descriptions, but in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific discourses on race.

  • The Modern Mulatto: A Comparative Analysis of the Social and Legal Positions of Mulattoes in the Antebellum South and the Intersex in Contemporary America Columbia Journal of Gender and Law Volume 15, Number 3 (September 2006) Marie-Amélie George, Associate Lawyer Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Recognizing new social forces working against the “correction”…

  • Whiting Up: Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance University of North Carolina Press December 2011 336 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 15 illus., notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3508-1 Marvin McAllister, Assistant Professor of English University of South Carolina In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head…

  • Lest we forget: the children they left behind: the life experience of adults born to black GIs and British women during the Second World War The University of Melbourne 1999 177 pages Janet Baker An estimated 22,000 children were born in England during the Second World War as a result of relationships between British women…

  • Where Do We Come From? Discover 2003-05-01 Kathleen McGowan Photography by Katy Grannan A new generation of DNA genealogists stand ready to unearth our ancestors. We may not like what they find. Brent Kennedy’s 19th-century ancestors stare out from his photo albums with dark eyes, high cheekbones, olive skin, and thick black hair—a genetic riddle…

  • Book explores racial identification The Post and Courier Charleston, South Carolina 2011-04-24 Karen Spain, legal writer based in Nashville The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey From Black to White. By Daniel J. Sharfstein. Penguin. 416 pages. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, “The Invisible Line” is a fascinating history of how three…

  • Although both Brazil and the United States inherited European norms that accorded whites privileged status relative to all other racial groups, the development of their societies followed different trajectories in defining white/black relations. In Brazil pervasive miscegenation and the lack of formal legal barriers to racial equality gave the appearance of its being a “racial…

  • The Slave Trader, the White Slave, and the Politics of Racial Determination in the 1850s Journal of American History Volume 87, Issue 1 (June 2000) pages 43-56 DOI: 10.2307/2567914 Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University In January of 1857 Jane Morrison was sold in the…