Category: Book/Video Reviews

  • The Cosmic Race by José Vasconcelos: “La Raza Cósmica” and Issues of Racial Diversity and Purity suite101.com 2010-01-26 Melanie Zoltan, Adjunct Professor of History Bay Path College In “The Cosmic Race” (“La Raza Cósmica” in Spanish), José Vasconcelos argues that racial diversity and interbreeding will produce one superior race. Is it code for purity? While…

  • What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America (Review) Law and Politics Book Review American Political Science Association 2009-03-23 pp. 218-220 Mark Kessler, Chair of the Department of History & Government and Professor of Government Texas Woman’s Univeristy What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America. By Peggy…

  • Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader (Review) Law and Politics Book Review American Political Science Association Volume 13,  Number 4 (April 2003) Barbara L. Graham, Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri, St. Louis Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader. By Kevin R. Johnson (Editor). (New York and London: New York…

  • White Enough to Be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation (Review) Law and Politics Book Review American Political Science Association Vol. 18 No.9 (2008-09-15) pp. 788-791 Daniel Lipson, Professor of Political Science State University of New York, New Paltz White Enough to Be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and…

  • The Monticello Mystery-Case Continued William and Mary Quarterly Volume LVIII, Number 4 (October 2001) Reviews of Books Alexander O. Boulton, Professor of History Stevenson University (formerly Villa Julie College) The Jefferson-Hemings Myth: An American Travesty. Edited by Eyler Robert Coates, Sr. (Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, 2001. Pp. 207.) A President in the Family:…

  • Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina (Review) William and Mary Quarterly Volume LX, Number 1 (January 2003) Reviews of Books Richard Godbeer, Professor of History University of Miami Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina. By Kirsten Fischer. (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 265.)…

  • Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South (Book Review) Civil War Book Review Louisiana State University Special Collections Kelly Kennington, 2009-2010 Law & Society Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Legal Studies University of Wisconsin Law School Jones, Bernie D. Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South, University of Georgia Press. 216 pages.…

  • Review: “Black Gal Swing”: Color, Class, and Category in Globalized Culture [Review of works by Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, Arthur K. Spears, and Rainier Spencer] American Anthropologist Volume 103, Issue 1 (March 2001) pages 208-211 DOI: 10.1525/aa.2001.103.1.208 Fred J. Hay, Professor and Librarian of the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection Library Appalachian State University Scattered Belongings: Cultural Paradoxes…

  • Mixed Race Hollywood (review) [Emily D. Edwards] Journal of Film and Video Volume 61, Number 4 (Winter 2009) E-ISSN: 1934-6018 Print ISSN: 0742-4671 DOI: 10.1353/jfv.0.0051 Emily D. Edwards, Professor of Broadcasting and Cinema University of North Carolina, Greensboro Mixed Race Hollywood is a collection of essays that could not be timelier. As popular media, journalists,…

  • Review Essay: Racial Relations and Racism in Brazil Culture & Psychology Volume 13, Number 4 (December 2007) pages 461-473 DOI: 10.1177/1354067X07082805 Marcus Eugênio Oliveira Lima Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brazil Telles, Edward Eric, Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil. Princeton, NJ/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. 324 pp. ISBN 978–0–691–12792–7 (pbk)…