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  • Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820–1920

    The remarkable saga of a mixed-race family in nineteenth-century America

  • Malaga Island: A Brief History

    Malaga Island: A Brief History Compiled by the Students of ES 203 Service Learning Project Bowdoin College 2003 Adrienne Heflich Anna Troyansky Samantha Farrell Malaga Island is located in Casco Bay, near the mouth of the New Meadows River, and is roughly a half-mile long by a quarter-mile wide in size. It sits approximately one…

  • Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

    Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Clarion Books an Imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2004-05-24 224 pages Trim Size: 5.50 x 8.25 Hardcover ISBN-13/EAN: 9780618439294 ; $15.00 Hardcover ISBN-10: 0618439293 Gary D. Schmidt, Professor of English Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan Winner of the Newbery Honor and Printz Honor. It only takes a few hours…

  • Malaga Island’s place in Maine history preserved

    Malaga Island’s place in Maine history preserved The Times Record Published: 2009-08-18, 18:08Z Seth Koenig, Times Record Staff PHIPPSBURG — The site of perhaps the most striking case of racial injustice in Maine history was the focus of a Saturday ceremony aimed at preserving the land and its lessons for future generations. Malaga Island, off…

  • Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

    Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold WMPG-FM (Portland, Maine) and The Salt Institute 2009 Rob Rosenthal, Radio Producer Kate Philbrick, Photographer WMPG-FM, in collaboration with the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, announces the premier of “Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold”, a radio and photo documentary recounting this infamous event and its impact on several…

  • Keeping up with the Joneses

    …Like many families of mixed ancestry and interracial families in the Northeast, the Joneses seemed to live in an ambiguous space in the American system of racial classification.  They seemed to be neither denying nor actively claiming a black racial identity.  Sociologists of the time and current historians have documented a number of cases—indeed a…

  • The Race Against Race [Book review of “What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America”]

    The Race Against Race [Book review of “What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America”] The New Republic 2010-01-29 Richard Posner “What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America” by Peggy Pascoe “Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell” by Paul A.…

  • “Remarkable” Mixed-Race Family in 20th Century Is Subject of Book Discussion [with Book Signing by the Author]

    “Remarkable” Mixed-Race Family in 20th Century Is Subject of Book Discussion [with Book Signing by the Author] James Madison Building Dining Room A, Sixth Floor, J 101 Independence Aveune, SE Washington, DC 2010-03-03, 12:30 EST (Local Time) Webcast Time: 00:59:24 Adele Logan Alexander, Professor of History George Washington University “Parallel Worlds” Focuses on “the Enduring (In)significance…

  • Race and the “One Drop Rule” in the Post-Reconstruction South

    Race and the “One Drop Rule” in the Post-Reconstruction South Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2009-03-17 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Many people, perhaps most, think of “race” as an objective reality. Historically, however, racial categorization has been unstable, contradictory, and arbitrary. Consider the term “passing.” Most of…

  • The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil

    The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil Temple University Press November 2006 336 pages 6×9 6 tables Paper EAN: 978-1-59213-351-2; ISBN: 1-59213-351-7 Cloth EAN: 978-1-59213-350-5; ISBN: 1-59213-350-9 Electronic Book EAN: 978-1-59213-352-9 Elisa Larkin Nascimento, Director IPEAFRO Afro-Brazilian Studies and Research Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Originally published in 2003 in Portuguese, The…