Category: History

  • Dr. Rainier Spencer Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed.  Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #131 – Dr. Rainier Spencer Wednesday, 2009-12-09  22:00Z Rainier Spencer, Director and Professor of Afro-American Studies; Professor…

  • The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, born Joseph Bologne, was the son of an African slave and a French plantation owner on the island of Guadeloupe. The story of his improbable rise in French society, his life as a famous fencer, celebrated violinist-composer and conductor, and later commander of a colored regiment in the French Revolution, should,…

  • Racial Passing Ohio State Law Journal Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law Vol. 62: 1145 (2001) Frank R. Strong Law Forum Lecture Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law Harvard Law School I. Passing: A Definition Passing is a deception that enables a person to adopt certain roles or identities from…

  • Beyond White Ethnicity: Developing a Sociological Understanding of Native American Identity Reclamation Lexington Books (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) October 2006 262 pages Cloth: 0-7391-1393-3 / 978-0-7391-1393-6 Paper: 0-7391-1394-1 / 978-0-7391-1394-3 Kathleen J. Fitzgerald, Professor of Sociology University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana Through qualitative analysis of individuals, Kathleen J. Fitzgerald studies the…

  • Rethinking inclusion and exclusion: the question of mixed-race presence in late colonial India University of Sussex Journal of Contemporary History Issue Five 2002 pp. 1-22 Satoshi Mizutani This article examines the ambivalent meanings of mixed-race presence in late colonial India (from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries). In doing so it contributes insights for pursuing…

  • Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender, Culture and the Normalisation of Difference Berg Publishers September 2007 224 pages, bibliog., index Paperback ISBN: 9781845202439 Hardback ISBN: 9781845202422 Ebook ISBN: 9781847883438 Mica Nava, Professor of Cultural Studies University of East London Cultural theorist Mica Nava makes an original and significant contribution to the study of cosmopolitanism by exploring everyday English…

  • The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean Duke University Press May 2005 408 pages 19 b&w photographs Cloth ISBN: 0-8223-3453-4, ISBN13 978-0-8223-3453-8 Paperback ISBN: 0-8223-3465-8, ISBN13 978-0-8223-3465-1 Doris Garraway, Associate Professor of French Northwestern University Presenting incisive original readings of French writing about the Caribbean from the inception of colonization in the 1640s…

  • As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in “The Souls of Black Folk,” the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial “order.” Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial “passing,” a practice through which subjects appropriate the terms…

  • This article explores how religion served as a vessel for one particular language crucial to racial segregation in the South: the language of miscegenation. It was through sex that racial segregation in the South moved from being a local social practice to a part of the divine plan for the world. It was thus through…

  • The Age of Jim Crow W. W. Norton & Company October 2008 434 pages 5.4 × 8.2 in Paperback ISBN 978-0-393-92758-0 Jane Dailey, Associate Professor of American History University of Chicago America’s racial history has been marked by both hard-won progress and sudden reversals of fortune. In The Age of Jim Crow, Jane Dailey introduces…