Category: History

  • Since the Middle Ages, Africans have lived in Germany as slaves and scholars, guest workers and refugees.

  • Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity Duke University Press 2008 264 pages 5 photographs, 2 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4058-4 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4058-4 J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies Wesleyan University In the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act (HHCA) of 1921, the U.S. Congress defined “native Hawaiians” as those…

  • Reading between the (Blood) Lines Southern California Law Review Volume 83, Number 3 (2010) pages 473-494 Rose Cuison Villazor, Professor of Law Hofstra University School of Law Legal scholars and historians have depicted the rule of hypodescent—that “one drop” of African blood categorized one as Black—as one of the powerful ways that law and society…

  • Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South New York University Press 2010-04-23 304 pages 13 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780814791325 Paperback ISBN: 9780814791332 Leslie Bow, Professor of English and Asian American Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison Arkansas, 1943. The Deep South during the heart of Jim Crow-era segregation. A Japanese-American person boards…

  • Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871–1921 (review) Canadian Journal of Law and Society Volume 25, Number 1, 2010 E-ISSN: 1911-0227 Print ISSN: 0829-3201 DOI: 10.1353/jls.0.0104 Eve Darian-Smith, Professor of Law and Society University of California, Santa Barbara Colonial Proximities is a scholarly, innovative, and illuminating exploration of law, race, and…

  • The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War [Book Review] H-Net Reviews 2002-01-23 Ethan S. Rafuse, Associate Professor of Military History United States Military Academy Victoria E. Bynum.“The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War”.  The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies.  Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press,…

  • The true story of a slave who became the wealthiest black woman in the South

  • Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between Race and Place Duke University Press September 2010 400 pages 21 photographs, 14 tables, 4 maps Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4787-3 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4803-0 Edited By: Lowell Gudmundson, Professor of Latin American Studies and History Mount Holyoke College Justin Wolfe, William Arceneaux Associate Professor of Latin American History Tulane University…

  • 2007 URO Spotlight: Noel Voltz – History and African American Studies Undergraduate Research Office The Ohio State University Noel Voltz is finishing her degree in African American and African Studies. She is currently writing her Honors Thesis and plans on continuing her research and pursuing a PhD in History. …What specifically have you researched, and…

  • Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century W. W. Norton and Company April 2010 590 pages 6.2 × 9.3 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-93070-2 Hazel Rose Markus (Editor) Stanford University Paula M. L. Moya (Editor) Stanford University A collection of new essays, written by a team of interdisciplinary authors, that gives a comprehensive introduction to…