Category: History

  • The Woman of Colour Broadview Press 2007-01-01 268 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781551111766 / 1551111764 Written by: Anonymous Edited by: Lyndon J. Dominique, Assistant Professor of English Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania The Woman of Colour is a unique literary account of a black heiress’ life immediately after the abolition of the British slave trade. Olivia Fairfield,…

  • Renee Romano explains how and why such marriages have gained acceptance, and what this tells us about race relations in contemporary America.

  • Interracialism, or marriage between members of different races, has formed, torn apart, defined and divided our nation since its earliest history. This collection explores the primary texts of interracialism as a means of addressing core issues in our racial identity.

  • Racial Thinking in the United States: Uncompleted Independence University of Notre Dame Press 2004 376 pages Cloth ISBN 10: 0-268-04103-2 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-268-04103-8 Paper ISBN 10: 0-268-04104-0 Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-268-04104-5 Edited by: Paul Spickard, Professor of 20th Century U.S. Social and Cultural History University of California, Santa Barbara G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of…

  • The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis (Book Review) Journal of Southern History Vol. 67 2001 Lloyd A. Hunter Franklin College of Indiana The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis. By Cyprian Clamorgan. Edited and with an introduction by Julie Winch. (Columbia, Mo., and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 1999. Pp. xiv, 122. $27.50, ISBN 0-8262-1236-0.)…

  • In 1858, Cyprian Clamorgan wrote a brief but immensely readable book entitled “The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis.” The grandson of a white voyageur and a mulatto woman, he was himself a member of the “colored aristocracy.” In a setting where the vast majority of African Americans were slaves, and where those who were free…

  • Blind Boone: Missouri’s Ragtime Pioneer University of Missouri Press 1998 136 pages 6 x 9. Biblio. Index. 25 illus. ISBN: 0-8262-1198-4 Jack A. Batterson Often overlooked by ragtime historians, John William “Blind” Boone had a remarkably successful and influential music career that endured for almost fifty years. Blind Boone: Missouri’s Ragtime Pioneer provides the first…

  • What does it mean to be a “mixed-blood,” and how has our understanding of this term changed over the last two centuries? What processes have shaped American thinking on racial blending?  Why has the figure of the mixed-blood, thought too offensive for polite conversation in the nineteenth century, become a major representative of twentieth-century native…

  • Racial Mixture and Affirmative Action: The Cases of Brazil and the United States The American Historical Review Volume 108, Number 5 December 2003 Thomas E. Skidmore, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of History Emeritus Brown University For me, as a historian of Brazil, North America’s “one-drop rule” has always seemed odd. No other society in…

  • The Mulatto Advantage: The Biological Consequences of Complexion in Rural Antebellum Virginia Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 33, Number 1 (Summer 2002) pp. 21-46 E-ISSN: 1530-9169; Print ISSN: 0022-1953 DOI: 10.1162/00221950260029002 Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics Clemson University Although historians have long noted that African-Americans of mixed-race in the antebellum Lower South were given economic…