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  • Crossing the Color Line: Racial Migration and the One-Drop Rule, 1600–1860

    Crossing the Color Line: Racial Migration and the One-Drop Rule, 1600–1860 Minnesota Law Review Volume 91, Number 3 (February 2007) pages 592-656 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University “It ain’t no lie, it’s a natural fact, / You could have been colored without being so black…” —Sung by deck hands, Auburn, Alabama, 1915–161…

  • How Mixed-Race Politics Entered the United States: Lydia Maria Child’s ‘Appeal’

    How Mixed-Race Politics Entered the United States: Lydia Maria Child’s ‘Appeal’ ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance Volume 56, Number 1, 2010 (Nos. 218 O.S.) pages 71-104 DOI: 10.1353/esq.0.0043 Robert Fanuzzi, Assistant Chair and Associate Professor of English St. Johns University, Queens, New York For scholars of the colonial and early national United States,…

  • Jared Sexton: People of Color-Blindness: Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery

    Jared Sexton: People of Color-Blindness: Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery University of Northern Arizona Gardner Auditorium, W.A. Franke College of Business, NAU 2010-03-25, 17:30 to 19:00 CDT (Local Time) Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine   This lecture explores the significance of the…

  • The Masters and the Slaves: Plantation Relations and Mestizaje in American Imaginaries

    The Masters and the Slaves: Plantation Relations and Mestizaje in American Imaginaries Palgrave Macmillan January 2005 176 pages Size 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 1-4039-6708-3 Hardcover ISBN: 1-4039-6563-3 Edited by: Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Assistant Professor of Luso-Brazilian Literature University of California, San Diego The Masters and the Slaves theorizes the interface of plantation relations…

  • Slave Mothers and White Fathers: Defining Family and Status in Late Colonial Cuba

    Slave Mothers and White Fathers: Defining Family and Status in Late Colonial Cuba Slavery & Abolition Volume 31, Issue 1 (March 2010) pages 29-55 DOI: 10.1080/01440390903481647 Karen Y. Morrison, Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies University of Massachusetts, Amherst This paper outlines the mechanisms used to position the offspring of slave women and white men at…

  • “They Call It Marriage”: the Louisiana Interracial Family and the Making of American Legitimacy

    “They Call It Marriage”: the Louisiana Interracial Family and the Making of American Legitimacy Book Manuscript In Progress Diana Irene Williams, Assistant Professor of History, Law and Gender Studies University of Southern California Winner of the 2008 William Nelson Cromwell Dissertation Prize in Legal History. “They Call it Marriage” examines interracial marriage between black women…

  • Race marks: Miscegenation in nineteenth-century American fiction

    Race marks: Miscegenation in nineteenth-century American fiction University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1997 195 pages Kimberly Anne Hicks This dissertation examines the process of miscegenation in the work of four authors who occupy pivotal positions in American writing about race. It is concerned with a variety of fictional and non-fictional texts produced by William Wells Brown,…

  • White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812

    White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 University of North Carolina Press 1968-09-25 (Republished: September 1995) 671 pages 8.9 x 6 x 1.4 inches ISBN: 978-0-8078-4550-9 Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Winthrop D. Jordan (1931-2007) Winner of the 1968 Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American…

  • Shades of Gray: The Life and Times of a Free Family of Color in Antebellum Texas

    Shades of Gray: The Life and Times of a Free Family of Color in Antebellum Texas Jason A. Gillmer, Professor of Law Texas Wesleyan University School of Law 2009-08-13 64 pages The history of race and slavery is often told from the perspective of either the oppressors or the oppressed. This Article takes a different…

  • Fixing the Color Line: The Mulatto, Southern Courts, and Racial Identity

    Fixing the Color Line: The Mulatto, Southern Courts, and Racial Identity American Quarterly Volume 53, Number 3 (September 2001) pages 420-451 E-ISSN: 1080-6490 Print ISSN: 0003-0678 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2001.0033 Teresa Zackodnik, Professor of English University of Alberta, Canada In July 1857 Abby Guy sued for her freedom and that of her four children in an Arkansas…