Category: History

  • In this innovative work, Adele Logan Alexander chronicles there heretofore undocumented dilemmas of one of nineteenth-century America’s most marginalized groups—free women of color in the rural South.

  • Kilombismo, Virtual Whiteness, and the Sorcery of Color Journal of Black Studies Volume 34, Number 6 (2004) pages 861-880 DOI: 10.1177/0021934704264009 Elisa Larkin Nascimento Afro-Brazilian Studies and Research Institute This article explores the legacy and current presence of racism in Brazil, particularly their unique expression in the juxtaposition of the miscegenation ideology of nonracism with…

  • A conversation with Victoria E. Bynum, author of The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies University of North Carolina Press April 2010 Victoria E. Bynum, author of The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies, discusses three Unionist strongholds in the South, Q: There seems no…

  • The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies University of North Carolina Press April 2010 240 pp. 6.125 x 9.25, 9 illus. 1 map, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3381-0 Large Print ISBN: 978-0-8078-7909-2 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos In The Long Shadow of the…

  • Husband And Wife Duo Paved The Way For Blacks In Diplomacy [Interview with Adele Logan Alexander] Tell Me More National Public Radio 2010-02-10 Michel Martin, Host of Tell Me More with Adele Logan Alexander, Professor of History George Washington University Tell Me More continues its Black History Month series with a conversation with Adele Logan…

  • This monumental history traces the rise of a resolute African American family (the author’s own) from privation to the middle class. In doing so, it explodes the stereotypes that have shaped and distorted our thinking about African Americans–both in slavery and in freedom.

  • When William Henry Hunt married Ida Alexander Gibbs in the spring of 1904, their wedding was a glittering Washington social event that joined an Oberlin-educated diplomat’s daughter and a Wall Street veteran who could trace his lineage to Jamestown.

  • The history of the Caribbean is a history of migrations. The peoples of the region came as conquerors and planters, slaves and indentured laborers from all parts of the globe. Each group contributed to the social fabric, culture, and commerce of the region. The Chinese diaspora has spread Chinese people and culture around the world,…

  • The African Presence in Mexico A Symposium Presented by Callaloo – A Journal of African Diapora Arts and Letters and The Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University 2008-10-22 through 2008-10-23 Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Sessions The Road to Blackness: A Search for Identity Within the Afro-Mexican Community (audio, photographs) Slavery and Freedom…

  • Blood Will Tell: Scientific Racism and the Legal Prohibition Against Miscegenation Michigan Journal of Race & Law University of Michigan Law School Volume 5, Issue 2 (Spring 2000) pages 560-609 Keith Edward Sealing, Dean of Students Widener Law School, Widener University Laws banning miscegenation endured in the colonies and the United States for more than…