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  • Mixing Bodies and Beliefs: The Predicament of Tribes

    Mixing Bodies and Beliefs: The Predicament of Tribes Columbia Law Review Volume 101, Number 4 (May 2001) L. Scott Gould This Article considers a dilemma faced by tribes in a post-inherent sovereignty world. Tribes have increasingly come to be defined through the use of blood quanta as racial entities. This practice raises the legal question…

  • Miscegenation, Eugenics, and Racism: Historical Footnotes to Loving v. Virginia

    Miscegenation, Eugenics, and Racism: Historical Footnotes to Loving v. Virginia University of California, Davis Law Review Volume 21, Number 2 (1988) pages 421-452 Paul A. Lombardo, Bobby Lee Cook Professor of Law Georgia State University This Essay explores private correspondence contained in a restricted manuscript collection along with contemporary news accounts and government documents to…

  • Beyond Just Black and White: Why I was so eager to claim my biracial son for my own side

    Beyond Just Black and White: Why I was so eager to claim my biracial son for my own side Newsweek.com 2009-01-24 Raina Kelley, Weekly Columnist When I took my newly born son from the nurse’s arms, I did the expected counting of his fingers and toes. I checked under his cap for hair and flexed…

  • The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940

    The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940 University of Texas Press 1990 143 pages 10 b&w illus. 6 x 9 in. ISBN: 978-0-292-73857-7 Edited by Richard Graham, Emeritus Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of History University of Texas, Austin With chapters by Thomas E. Skidmore, Aline Helg, and Alan Knight From the mid-nineteenth century…

  • Couple finds a more than a century old gravestone

    Couple finds a more than a century old gravestone Beaumont Enterprise 2009-12-13 Kyle Peveto Beneath a tool shed behind her house, Mallary Sanders and her fiance found a 118-year-old piece of history they are begging someone to take. Last weekend, Sanders’ fiance, Justin Trusty, 24, was cleaning beneath the pier-and-beam shed when he came across…

  • Shades of Gray: The Life and Times of a Free Family of Color in Antebellum Texas

    Shades of Gray: The Life and Times of a Free Family of Color in Antebellum Texas Jason A. Gillmer, Professor of Law Texas Wesleyan University School of Law 2009-08-13 64 pages The history of race and slavery is often told from the perspective of either the oppressors or the oppressed. This Article takes a different…

  • Commentary: Living in a Mixed-Race America

    Commentary: Living in a Mixed-Race America Essence.com Essence Magazine 2009-10-20 June Cross, Assistant Professor of Journalism Columbia University As if being married had anything to do with Blacks and Whites producing mixed-race children. That was my first thought upon reading that an elected official in Louisiana had refused to marry a Black man and a…

  • Fixing the Color Line: The Mulatto, Southern Courts, and Racial Identity

    Fixing the Color Line: The Mulatto, Southern Courts, and Racial Identity American Quarterly Volume 53, Number 3 (September 2001) pages 420-451 E-ISSN: 1080-6490 Print ISSN: 0003-0678 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2001.0033 Teresa Zackodnik, Professor of English University of Alberta, Canada In July 1857 Abby Guy sued for her freedom and that of her four children in an Arkansas…

  • Researching Mixed Heritage: Professors Study Racial Identification Questions

    Researching Mixed Heritage: Professors Study Racial Identification Questions inside California State University, Fullerton 2009-11-02 Mikel Hogan, Anthropologist, Chair and Professor of Human Services California State University, Fullerton H. Rika Houston, Professor of Marketing California State University, Los Angeles Although racial identification has been a part of the U.S. Census policy since its inception, neither race…

  • Through Russwurm’s Eyes: ‘The Conditions and Prospects of Haiti’

    Through Russwurm’s Eyes: ‘The Conditions and Prospects of Haiti’ Campus News Bowdoin College 2010-03-01 John B. Russwurm, the College’s first African-American graduate and thought to be the third African-American to graduate from an American college, delivered a commencement address in 1826 that resonates nearly 184 years later. The speech, “The Condition and Prospects of Haiti,”…