Category: Slavery

  • 128 RACE MIXTURE POLTCS University of California, Irvine School of Humanities Winter Quarter 2016 Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies This course explores the politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the United States from the antebellum period to the post-civil rights era, paying specific attention to…

  • “Most Fitting Companions”: Making Mixed-Race Bodies Visible in Antebellum Public Spaces Theatre Survey Volume 56, Issue 2, May 2015 pages 138-165 DOI: 10.1017/S0040557415000046 Lisa Merrill, Professor of Speech Communication, Rhetoric, Performance Studies Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York In the years leading up to the U.S. Civil War, free and fugitive persons of color were aware…

  • Slavery’s Hidden History: An interview with historian Eric Foner American Libraries 2015-10-27 George M. Eberhart, Editor Eric Foner—Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, author of Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad (W. W. Norton, 2015), Columbia University professor, and author of more than 20 history texts—spoke to American Libraries about his latest book and…

  • Race Relations In Brazil Odyssey 2015-10-12 Evan Mextorf Is racial democracy real? If one was to ask a member of the Brazilian government if racism exists within the country, they would more than likely say no. They might say “Brazil is a racial democracy. Sure, there are social factors such as gender and class that…

  • La melaza que llora: How to Keep the Term Afro-Latino from Losing Its Power Latino Rebels 2015-10-16 Jason Nichols, Lecturer in African American Studies University of Maryland Me quiere hacer pensar/ que soy parte de una trilogía racial/ donde todo el mundo es igual/ sin trato especial/ se perdonar/ eres tú que no sabe disculpar/…

  • Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study Macmillan Ninth Edition 2014 732 pages Paper Text ISBN-10: 1-4292-4217-5; ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-4217-2 Paula S. Rothenberg, Senior Fellow; The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Professor Emerita; William Patterson University of New Jersey Like no other text, this best-selling anthology effectively introduces students to…

  • America’s forgotten migration – the journeys of a million African-Americans from the tobacco South to the cotton South

  • In 1858 François-Auguste Biard, a well-known sixty-year-old French artist, arrived in Brazil to explore and depict its jungles and the people who lived there. What did he see and how did he see it? In this book historian Ana Lucia Araujo examines Biard’s Brazil with special attention to what she calls his “tropical romanticism”: a…

  • Historian Broadens Narrative of Slavery in the Americas Fordham News: The Latest From Fordham University 2015-10-16 Patrick Verel Photograph by Patrick Verel In the United States, the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Underground Railroad loom so large in the understandings of slavery that most Americans can almost be excused for thinking it’s a…

  • [PODCAST] In Konversation: Unpacking the myth of the “racial democracy” in Brazil – Part 1 briankamanzi 2015-10-04 Brian Kamanzi, Host Cape Town, South Africa Marcelo Rosa, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil In Konversation: Unpacking the myth of the “racial democracy” in Brazil – Part 1 by Inkonversation on Mixcloud Konversation meets…