Category: History

  • ‘War Brides of Japan’ To Take Focus in New Documentary NBC News 2016-08-10 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Journalist and filmmaker Yayoi Lena Winfrey is looking for more Japanese “war brides” to interview as she completes the filming for her feature-length documentary film, “War Brides of Japan.” With many of these women in their mid-80s, Winfrey said…

  • Skin Color Still Plays Big Role In Ethnically Diverse Brazil All Things Considered National Public Radio 2013-09-19 Audie Cornish, Host Melissa Block visits a historic section of Rio de Janeiro that pays homage to Afro-Brazilian history and the many slaves that came ashore there. She talks with Brazilian filmmaker Joel Zito Araujo about what it…

  • Race And Radicalism In Puerto Rico: An Interview With Carlos Alamo-Pastrana African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2016-08-02 Devyn Spence Benson, Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies Louisiana State University This month I interviewed Dr. Carlos Alamo-Pastrana about his new book, Seams of Empire: Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico and…

  • Puerto Rico’s colonial relationship with the United States and its history of intermixture of native, African, and Spanish inhabitants has prompted inconsistent narratives about race and power in the colonial territory.

  • Eyes Wide Cut: The American Origins of Korea’s Plastic Surgery Craze The Wilson Quarterly Fall 2015 Laura Kurek South Korea’s obsession with cosmetic surgery can be traced back to an American doctor, raising uneasy questions about beauty standards. At sixteen stories high, the doctor’s office looms over the neon-colored metropolis. Within the high-rise, consultation offices,…

  • Like a human tsunami, World War II brought two million American servicemen to the South Pacific where they left a human legacy of some thousands of children. “Mothers’ Darlings of the South Pacific” traces the intimate relationships that existed in the wartime South Pacific between U.S. servicemen and Indigenous women, and considers the fate of…

  • Half-Caste Actresses in Colonial Brazilian Opera Houses Latin American Theatre Review Volume 45, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 57-71 DOI: 10.1353/ltr.2012.0016 Rosana Marreco Brescia Universidade Nova de Lisboa Operatic and theatrical historians in both Brazil and Portugal frequently mention that around the last quarter of the 18th century, Queen Maria I forbade women to perform…

  • On Race and Medicine: Insider Perspectives ed. by Richard Garcia (review) American Studies Volume 55, Number 1, 2016 pages 163-164 DOI: 10.1353/ams.2016.0057 David Colón-Cabrera ON RACE AND MEDICINE: Insider Perspectives. Edited by Richard Garcia. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 2015. The fields of anthropology and sociology, in addition to health sciences, have problematized the topic…

  • The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America’s First Black Dynasty HarperCollins 2006-06-27 512 pages 5.313 in (w) x 8 in (h) x 0.821 in (d) Hardcover ISBN: 978-0060184124 Paperback ISBN: 9780060985134 eBook ISBN: 9780061873911 Lawrence Otis Graham Blanche Kelso Bruce was born a slave in 1841, yet, remarkably, amassed a real-estate fortune…

  • Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period.