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  • A Very Sad Occurrence

    A Very Sad Occurrence Staunton Vindicator 1869-08-27 page 3, Column 2 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library Summary: The paper prints an account of the killing of Jacob Scherer by John Stanley. Stanley had been co-habiting with a woman of mixed race. Scherer led a party to break…

  • The American Race

    The American Race Semi-Weekly Dispatch Franklin County, Virginia 1861-05-17 page 1, Column 3 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library Summary: Reasons that America’s population has increased by one-third in the past ten years because of the intermarriage in the United States of the races of Celts, Teutons, Anglo-Saxons,…

  • Doctor’s quest to engineer a “master race” in the early 1900s still hurting Virginia’s Indian tribes

    Doctor’s quest to engineer a “master race” in the early 1900s still hurting Virginia’s Indian tribes WTVR-CBS 6 TV Richmond, Virginia 2011-07-12 Mark Holmberg, Staff reporter RICHMOND— Richmond’s famous Hollywood Cemetery serves as the final resting place of presidents, statesmen and generals. Few have had the impact of Dr. Walter Plecker. His stormy legacy continues…

  • “Free People of Color” in Old Virginia: The Morris Family of Gloucester County, a Case Study

    “Free People of Color” in Old Virginia: The Morris Family of Gloucester County, a Case Study Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2011-11-10 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Back in 1977, when I was a junior in college, history became a personal venture for me when an African…

  • The Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia: The Drums of Life

    The Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia: The Drums of Life University of Alabama Press 2008 248 pages Quality Paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-5488-6 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8173-1615-0 E Book ISBN: 978-0-8173-8113-4    Rosemary Clark Whitlock, Monacan Indian and Independent Scholar The contemporary Monacan Nation had approximately 1,400 registered members in 2006, mostly living in and around Lynchburg, Virginia,…

  • Native, Aboriginal, Indigenous: Who Counts as Indian in Post Apartheid Virginia

    Native, Aboriginal, Indigenous: Who Counts as Indian in Post Apartheid Virginia Mid-Atlantic Conference on the Scholarship of Diversity, Conference Proceedings Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia April 2004 17 pages Jay Hansford C. Vest, Associate Professor of American Indian Studies University of North Carolina, Pembroke In 1948, sociologist William Gilbert wrote: “Indian blood still remains noticeable in…

  • The Black-and-White World of Walter Ashby Plecker

    The Black-and-White World of Walter Ashby Plecker The Virginian-Pilot 2004-08-18 Warren Fiske Lacy Branham Hearl closes her eyes and travels eight decades back to what began as a sweet childhood. There was family everywhere: her parents, five siblings, nine sets of adoring aunts and uncles and more cousins than she could count. They all lived…

  • White Supremacists from 1920s Still Thwarting Virginia Tribes

    White Supremacists from 1920s Still Thwarting Virginia Tribes Indian Country Today Media Network 2011-04-26 Tanya Lee Congress is once again considering legislation that would grant federal recognition to six of Virginia’s 11 state-recognized American Indian tribes—the Chickahominy, Chickahominy Eastern Division, Nansemond, Rappahannock and Upper Mattaponi tribes and the Monacan Indian Nation. Chief Gene Adkins of…

  • The pot that called the kettle white: Changing racial identities and U.S. social construction of race

    The pot that called the kettle white: Changing racial identities and U.S. social construction of race Identities Volume 5, Issue 3 (1998) Special Issue: Foundational Concepts: Gender, Race, and Locality pages 379-413 DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962622 Norberto Valdez, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies Colorado State University Janice Valdez Continuing Education Department Colorado State University Ethnic and racial…

  • Documentary Genocide: Families Surnames on Racial Hit List

    Documentary Genocide: Families Surnames on Racial Hit List Richmond Times-Dispatch 2000-03-05 Peter Hardin, Former Washington Correspondent   Long before the Indian woman gave birth to a baby boy, Virginia branded him with a race other than his own.   The young Monacan Indian mother delivered her son at Lynchburg General Hospital in 1971. Proud of…