Category: History

  • Sandweiss unearths a compelling tale of secret racial identity News at Princeton Princeton University 2009-12-17 Jennifer Greenstein Altmann For three decades, history professor Martha Sandweiss had wondered about a little-noticed detail in the life of Clarence King, a well-known figure in the history of the American West. King, a 19th-century geologist and author, was a…

  • Mapping race: Multiracial people and racial category construction in the United States and Britain Immigrants & Minorities Volume 15, Issue 2 (July 1996) pages 107-119 DOI: 10.1080/02619288.1996.9974883 Paul R. Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara The social construction of what are often called ‘racial’ categories has proceeded differently in different places. The…

  • American Lives: The ‘Strange’ Tale Of Clarence King National Public Radio 2010-08-18 Steve Inskeep, Host Morning Edition U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library Ada Copeland, an African-American woman born in Georgia just months before that state seceded from the Union, moved to New York City in the mid-1880s. There, she met a man named James Todd.…

  • Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line The Penguin Press 2009-02-05 384 pages 5.98 x 9.01in Hardcover ISBN 9781594202001 Martha A. Sandweiss, Professor of History Princeton University National Book Critics Circle Awards Winner The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West and the woman…

  • An intensely dramatic true story, “Forsaking All Others” recounts the fascinating case of an interracial couple who attempted—in defiance of society’s laws and conventions—to formalize their relationship in the post-Reconstruction South. It was an affair with tragic consequences, one that entangled the protagonists in a miscegenation trial and, ultimately, a desperate act of revenge.

  • The Changing Racial and Ethnic Composition of the US Population: Emerging American Identities Population and Development Review Volume 35, Issue 1 (March 2009) pages 1-51 DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2009.00260.x Anthony Daniel Perez, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Charles Hirschman, Boeing International Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology and Center for Studies in…

  • Werner Sollors to speak at University of Richmond English Department 2010-2011 Writers’ Series University of Richmond Westhampton Living Room, Westhampton Center Richmond, Virginia 2010-09-30 16:30 EDT (Local Time) Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Afro American Studies; Director of the History of American Civilization Program Harvard University Werner…

  • Geographies of diaspora and mixed descent: Anglo-Indians in India and Britain International Journal of Population Geography Special Issue: Geographies of Diaspora Volume 9, Issue 4 (July/August 2003) pages 281–294 DOI: 10.1002/ijpg.287 Alison Blunt, Professor of Geography Queen Mary, University of London This paper explores geographies of diaspora for Anglo-Indians (formerly known as ‘Eurasians’) through a…

  • Society, politics, agriculture, and mixed-race unions in a coastal Georgia planter community

  • …Fleming’s use of the term ‘passing’ is also worthy of comment. Not only does it have the connotation of deceit and disguise, but it also implies that the offspring of mixed heritage could never be truly English, despite their birth in England and their English mothers. To cross racial boundaries (‘race crossing’) had two meanings:…