Category: History

  • Hey Mum, What’s a Half-Caste? Independent Publishing Group April 2010 316 pages, Trade Paper, 5.75 x 8.25 35 B/W Photos ISBN: 9781921248030 (1921248033) Lorraine McGee-Sippel Compelling and honest, this memoir recounts the diffuse effects of a governmental policy that required the author’s adoptive parents to be informed of her Afro-American ancestry. Chronicling her personal search…

  • Dislocating the Color Line: Identity, Hybridity, and Singularity in African-American Narrative Stanford University Press 1997 280 pages Cloth ISBN-10: 0804727740; ISBN-13: 9780804727747 Paper ISBN-10: 0804727759; ISBN-13: 9780804727754 Samira Kawash, Associate Professor Women’s and Gender Studies Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Inquiries into the meaning and force of race in American culture have largely…

  • Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance The University of Chicago Press 2001 232 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 9780226536637 Rachel F. Moran, Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law University of California, Los Angeles As late as the 1960s, states could legally punish minorities who either had sex with or married persons…

  • Kip And Alice Rhinelander Social Error New York Daily News 1999-05-02 07:10Z Jay Maeder, Daily News Staff Writer From Germany to the New World came the Rhinelanders in the year 1696, and here they settled New Rochelle and begat. They were quite meticulous about it. For 200 years, naught but the proudest blood streamed through…

  • For over one hundred years–from the post–Civil War era to the post–Civil Rights era–the state of Alabama maintained a legal and social commitment to keeping blacks and whites from engaging in long-term sexual relationships with each other. Recent studies addressing the laws that barred miscegenation have shown that investigating governmental reactions to intimate interracial connections…

  • The McDonald Furman Papers, 1889-1903 USCS Newsletter University of South Carolina Society Spring 1997 Terry Lipscomb McDonald Furman, a descendant of Richard Furman, was a history enthusiast with a taste for anthropology. Regarded as an eccentric by contemporary South Carolinians, he was held in high regard by the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology. His research…

  • For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses–not just their eyes–to construct racial difference and define race.

  • Most Texas history books name Norris Wright Cuney as one of the most influential African American politicians in nineteenth-century Texas, but they tell little about him beyond his elected positions. In The Cuneys, Douglas Hales not only fills in the details of Cuney’s life and contributions but places him in the context of his family’s…

  • One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820–1870 University of Massachusetts Press June 2005 288 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-1-55849-483-1 Karen Woods Weierman, Associate Professor of English Worcester State University Examines the roots of a pernicious and persistent American taboo The proscription against interracial marriage was for many years a flashpoint…

  • The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans Rutgers University Press 2007-03-28 168 pages 9 b&w illustrations Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4058-0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4057-3 Carol Wilson, Arthur A. and Elizabeth R. Knapp Professor of American History Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland In 1843, the Louisiana Supreme Court heard the case of a…