Category: History

  • How do you become “white” in America? The Correspondent September 2016 Sarah Kendzior, Flyover Country Correspondent An immigrant family looks out over the New York skyline as they arrive in the U.S. from Germany aboard the S.S. Nieuw Amsterdam. Photo by Getty Trump has retweeted white supremacist groups and has the backing of the Ku…

  • The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola Rutgers University Press November 2016 200 pages 9 photographs, 2 figures, 2 maps, 8 tables 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-8448-5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-8447-8 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-8450-8 epub ISBN: 978-0-8135-8449-2 Milagros Ricourt, Associate Professor of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies…

  • The reality of being black in today’s Britain The Guardian 2016-10-29 David Olusoga David Olusoga at El Mina, a Portuguese-built fort in Ghana. ‘Many black British people, and their white and mixed-race family members, slipped into a siege mentality.’ Photograph: BBC David Olusoga grew up amid racism in Britain in the 70s and 80s. Now,…

  • The Life and Times of Pío Pico, Last Governor of Mexican California Lost LA KCET Burbank, California 2016-10-27 William D. Estrada, Curator of California and American History and Chair of the History Department Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Pío de Jesus Pico and his wife, María Ignacia Alvarado Pico, in 1852, with two…

  • The African American Museum chooses ‘Loving’ for its first film screening The Washington Post 2016-10-25 Helena Andrews-Dyer Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga, stars of “Loving,” attend the premiere of the film on Thursday in Beverly Hills. (Chris Pizzello/Invision via Associated Press) Just one month after opening its doors, the National Museum of African American History and Culture is…

  • How America Bought and Sold Racism, and Why It Still Matters Collectors Weekly 2015-11-10 Lisa Hix, Associated Editor Today, very few white Americans openly celebrate the horrors of black enslavement—most refuse to recognize the brutal nature of the institution or actively seek to distance themselves from it. “The modern American sees slavery as a regrettable period when…

  • TriPod Mythbusters: Quadroon Balls And Plaçage Tripod WWNO 89.9 FM New Orleans, Louisiana 2016-09-22 Laine Kaplan-Levenson, Host There is a common myth told about 19th-century New Orleans. It goes something like this: Imagine you’re in an elegant dance hall in New Orleans in the early 1800s. Looking around, you see a large group of white men and free…

  • Focus on world’s first black football star The Voice 2016-10-16 Poppy Brady Dr Tony Talburt decided that a book on Guyanese-born footballer Watson was seriously overdue, so he set about researching the background of this exceptional pioneer of the beautiful game HE WAS the world’s first black football superstar, but the name Andrew Watson is…

  • Creating the Ideal Mexican: 20th and 21st Century Racial and National Identity Discourses in Oaxaca University of Massachusetts, Amherst September 2015 235 pages Savannah N. Carroll Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy This investigation intends to uncover…

  • Remapping Race on the Human Genome: Commercial Exploits in a Racialized America Praeger October 2016 645 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4408-4992-3 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4408-4993-0 Edited by: Patricia Reid-Merritt, Distinguished Professor of Social Work and Africana Studies Stockton University, Galloway, New Jersey Is race simply an antiquated, pseudo-scientific abstraction developed to justify the dehumanization…