Category: History

  • Fall 2010 Honors Colloquium: RACE University of Rhode Island Tuesday evenings, 19:00 ET (Local Time); (23:00Z through November; 00:00Z on Wednesday after November 9). 2010-09-14 through 2010-12-07 Edwards Auditorium, URI Kingston Campus A series of public programs at the University of Rhode Island presented by the URI Honors Program Join us! The public is invited…

  • IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas Smithsonian Institution 2009 256 pages 6 5/8 x 9 1/2 inches 115 color and black-and-white illustrations ISBN: 978-1-58834-271-3 Twenty-seven passionate essays explore the complex history and contemporary lives of people with a dual heritage that is a little-known part of American culture. Authors from across the Americas share…

  • African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation University of Oklahoma Press 2007 368 pages, 6″ x 9″ Illustrations: 15 color illustrations, 4 maps Hardcover ISBN: 9780806138152 Paperback ISBN: 9780806168951 Gary Zellar, Assistant Professor of History University of Saskatchewan A narrative history of the African Creek community Among the Creeks, they were known as Estelvste—black people—and…

  • Personal passion fuels Smithsonian exhibit San Francisco State University News 2010-02-12 Denize Springer The search for identity is particularly complex for Americans of both African and Native American heritage, according to Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies Robert Keith Collins. Of Choctaw and African American descent, Collins has turned a personal passion into a career.…

  • CCIE presents Cedar & Bamboo – Film Première and Panel Discussion University of British Columbia, Point Grey Campus UBC First Nations Longhouse Thursday, 2010-10-14, 12:00-14:30 (Local Time) Sponsored by the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education (CCIE). There are numerous First Nations in what is now British Columbia and Chinese people arrived on BC’s shores…

  • Discovering an unexpected compatibility, Punjabis married women of Mexican descent and these alliances inspired others as the men introduced their bachelor friends to the sisters and friends of their wives. These biethnic families developed an identity as “Hindus” but also as Americans.

  • History 328: American Mixed Blood Oberlin College Department of History Fall 2009 Pablo Mitchell, Eric and Jane Nord Associate Professor of History and Comparative American Studies Oberlin College From the coyote and the half-breed to the “tragic” mulatto, people of mixed ethnic and racial heritage occupy a conflicted and controversial place in American history. This…

  • White Negro Communities: Too White To Be Black And Too Black To Be White Johnathon Odell: Discovering Our Stories 2010-07-25 John Odell Yvonne Bivins had to make a choice very few Americans have forced upon them.  She could live as a black woman or a white woman. Yvonne’s ancestry is enmeshed with the Knights of…

  • Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920 University of Chicago Press 2005 224 pages 10 halftones  6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 9780226532424 Paper ISBN: 9780226532431 E-book ISBN: 9780226532523 Pablo Mitchell, Eric and Jane Nord Associate Professor of History and Comparative American Studies Oberlin College With the arrival of the transcontinental railroad…

  • …One might argue that discrimination against multiracial people is merely a subset—perhaps even a milder one—of discrimination against monoracial individuals. In other words, a person who is identified as partially Black might be subject to the same kind of animus as one who is identified as fully Black. This Part aims to disprove that notion…