Category: Slavery

  • Tribal Rights vs. Racial Justice: Was the Cherokee Nation’s expulsion of black Freedmen an act of tribal sovereignty or of racial discrimination? The New York Times Room for Debate 2011-09-15 Kevin Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Matthew L. M. Fletcher, Professor of Law Michigan State University Cara Cowan-Watts, Acting Speaker Cherokee Nation Tribal…

  • Family Histories of ‘Passing’ from Black to White Documented in Book Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2011-09-06 Katti Gray In the summer of 1993, as American-born Daniel Sharfstein registered Blacks to cast their first ballot in race-riven South Africa, he volunteered alongside a South African woman, who professed to be as authentically African as any…

  • Tent of Miracles: Myth of racial democracy Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media Number 21 (November 1979) pages 20-22 Joan R. Dassin Tent of Miracles (Tenda dos Milagres), says its director Nelson Pereira dos Santos, is a clear direct film that confronts a human question—that of racial discrimination—with great frankness and humor. Completed in…

  • For the first time, all the proslavery—but also pro-black—writings of Zephaniah Kingsley (1765-1843) appear together in one volume. Kingsley was a slave trader and the owner of a large plantation near Jacksonville in what was then Spanish East Florida. He married one of his slaves and had children with several others.

  • The mulatta text and the muted voice in “Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon”: Revising the genre of the slave narrative Marquette University August 1995 202 pages Rebecca Anne Ferguson A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Marquette University, Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English From…

  • Race in Brazil: Out of Eden The Economist 2003-07-03 Brazil used to think it could be colour-blind. Alas, no longer JOANA, an actress and student, is white, or at least that is what her birth certificate says. She has a white father, a mixed-race mother and skin the colour of cappuccino. But she considers herself…

  • Q&A with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. About Black Experience in Latin America Black in Latin America Public Broadcasting Service April 2011 Gates discusses his new project in this interview from the PBS site. First, could you talk a little bit about this project? I conceived of this as a trilogy of documentary series that…

  • The Place of Miscegenation Laws within Historical Scholarship about Slavery The Literary Lawyer: A Forum for the Legal and Literary Communities 2011-05-17 Allen Porter Mendenhall The following post appeared at The Literary Table. Miscegenation laws, also known as anti-miscegenation laws, increasingly have attracted the attention of scholars of slavery over the last half-century. Scholarship on…

  • Embodying race: gender, sex, and the sciences of difference, 1830-1934 Rutgers University, New Brunswick May 2008 356 pages Melissa Norelle Stein, Postdoctoral Fellow Center for Race and Ethnicity Rutgers University A Dissertation submitted to the Graduate School-New Brunswick Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of…

  • Persistent Borderland: Freedom and Citizenship in Territorial Florida Texas A&M University August 2007 295 pages Philip Matthew Smith A Dissertation by Philip Matthew Smith Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in History Florida’s Spanish borderland was the result…