Category: History

  • The Guineas of West Virginia Ohio State University 1952 139 pages John P. Burnell, Jr. A Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirments for the Degree Master of Arts. Table of Contents Introduction Methodology Geographical and Social Setting History and Origin Who Is A Guinea? Social Participation Attitudes and Beliefs Summary and Conclusions Bibliography…

  • The Creolisation of London Kinship: Mixed African-Caribbean and White British Extended Families, 1950-2003 Amsterdam University Press November 2010 282 pages Paperback ISBN: 978 90 8964 235 6 Elaine Bauer, Fellow at the Young Foundation; Associate Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London In the last 50 years, the United…

  • The Invisible Line: American families’ journeys from black to white Research news@Vanderbilt Vanderbilt University 2011-02-17 Amy Wolf The idea of someone transitioning from black to white, without science or surgery, seems hard to grasp on the surface. Yet Vanderbilt Law School professor Daniel J. Sharfstein finds that African Americans have continually crossed the color line…

  • BBC Two explores what it means to be mixed-race in Britain British Broadcasting Corporaton 2010-03-10 Mixed-Race Britain is put under the spotlight this autumn on BBC Two in a collection of revealing and compelling new programmes. Britain in 2011 has proportionately the largest mixed population in the Western world, but 100 years ago people of…

  • The Invisible Line: Three American families and the secret journey from black to white [Live Interview with Daniel J. Sharfstein] Minnesota Public Radio News Midmorning Broadcast: 2011-03-15 15:06Z (10:06 CDT, 11:06 EDT, 08:06 PDT) Kerri Miller, Host Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University For much of American history, racial identity has been defined…

  • Termination’s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah. By R. Warren Metcalf. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xx, 305 pp., ISBN 0-8032-3201-2.)  [Review] The Journal of American History Volume 90, Number 3 (December 2003) page 1107 DOI: 10.2307/3661030 David Rich Lewis, Professor of History Utah State University, Logan Termination’s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah.…

  • Termination’s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah University of Nebraska Press 2002 311 pages Illus., maps Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-3201-3; Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-2251-9 R. Warren Metcalf, Associate Professor of United States History University of Oklahoma Termination’s Legacy describes how the federal policy of termination irrevocably affected the lives of a group of mixed-blood Ute Indians who…

  • Freedom on the Border: The Seminole Maroons in Florida, the Indian Territory, Coahuila, and Texas Texas Tech University Press 2003 256 pages 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches Paper ISBN-10: 0896725162, ISBN-13: 978-0896725164 Kevin Mulroy, Associate University Librarian University of California, Los Angeles In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, black runaways braved an…

  • Interview with Daniel J. Sharfstein, author of “The Invisible Line” The Christian Science Monitor 2011-02-23 Stacie Williams, Monitor Contributor In “The Invisible Line,” law professor Daniel J. Sharfstein uses the stories of three families to explore the fluid nature of racial identity in America. Race has never been an easy concept in this country; the…

  • Invisible Darkness: Jean Toomer and Nella Larsen University of Iowa Press 1993 255 pages, 10 photos Paper 0-87745-437-X, 978-0-87745-437-3 Charles R. Larson, Professor of Literature American University Invisible Darkness offers a striking interpretation of the tortured lives of the two major novelists of the Harlem Renaissance: Jean Toomer, author of Cane (1923), and Nella Larsen,…