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  • ENGL S-88 Study Abroad in Venice, Italy: Interracial Literature (32137)

    ENGL S-88 Study Abroad in Venice, Italy: Interracial Literature (32137) Harvard Summer Program in Venice, Italy: Liberal arts studies in Italy’s city of canals 2010-06-03 through 2010-07-30 Mondays, Wednesdays, 10:00-12:30 CEST (Local Time) (4 credits: UN, GR) Limited enrollment Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English and African-American Studies Harvard University…

  • Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa 1895-1960

    This book recreates the lives of the children born of relationships between French men and African women from the time France colonized much of West Africa towards the end of the 19th century, until independence in 1960.

  • Legal History of the Color Line: The Rise and Triumph of the One-Drop Rule

    Legal History of the Color Line: The Rise and Triumph of the One-Drop Rule Backintyme Publishing 2005 542 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780939479238 Frank W. Sweet Every Year, 35,000 Black-Born Youngsters Redefine Themselves as White About 1/3 of “White” Americans have detectable African DNA Genealogists were the first to learn that America’s color line leaks. Black…

  • Erasure and Recognition: The Census, Race and the National Imagination

    This Article is concerned with the constitutive power of the census with respect to race. It is an examination of the U.S. Census as an aspect of what Angela Harris calls race law, “law pertaining to the formation, recognition, and maintenance of racial groups, as well as the law regulating the relationships among these groups.”…

  • Harry Chang: A Seminal Theorist of Racial Justice

    Harry Chang: A Seminal Theorist of Racial Justice Monthly Review January 2007 Bob Wing It is little known that a shy Korean immigrant named Harry Chang made vital contributions to the theory and practice of racial justice in the United States. In his most fruitful period, the 1970s, his work shaped the thinking and political…

  • In First Lady’s Roots, a Complex Path From Slavery

    In First Lady’s Roots, a Complex Path From Slavery The New York Times 2009-10-08 Rachel L. Swarns Jodi Kantor WASHINGTON — In 1850, the elderly master of a South Carolina estate took pen in hand and painstakingly divided up his possessions. Among the spinning wheels, scythes, tablecloths and cattle that he bequeathed to his far-flung…

  • Triumphant Miscegenation: Reflections on Beauty and Race in Brazil

    Triumphant Miscegenation: Reflections on Beauty and Race in Brazil Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 1 (February 2007) pages 83-97 DOI: 10.1080/07256860601082954 Alexander Edmonds, Professor of Medical Anthropology and Sociology University of Amsterdam In Brazil racial mixture, mestiçagem has been a dominant theme in the political and cultural re-imagination of the nation in the…

  • “Des couleurs primitives”: Miscegenation and French Painting of Algeria

    “Des couleurs primitives”: Miscegenation and French Painting of Algeria Visual Resources Volume 24, Issue 3 (2008) pages 273 – 298 DOI: 10.1080/01973760802284638 Peter Benson Miller, Art Historian Rome Art Program The Romantic concept of “local color” refers to a site of painterly experimentation, the application of pigment in the chromatic construction of a picture. The…

  • Passing Fancy

    In the Jim Crow South, courts understood that rigidly enforcing the rules against mixed marriage would have been a disaster—for whites.

  • Crossing the Color Line: Racial Migration and the One-Drop Rule, 1600–1860

    Crossing the Color Line: Racial Migration and the One-Drop Rule, 1600–1860 Minnesota Law Review Volume 91, Number 3 (February 2007) pages 592-656 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University “It ain’t no lie, it’s a natural fact, / You could have been colored without being so black…” —Sung by deck hands, Auburn, Alabama, 1915–161…