Category: Media Archive

  • Multiracial populations of U.S. cities CNN April 2011 The number of people who say they belong to at least two races increased by 32% between 2000 and 2010, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Search the table below to see how the population has changed in cities and towns [3,876] with more than 10,000 people.…

  • Problems with Plaçage: Historical Imagination and Femmes de couleurs libres in Colonial and Antebellum New Orleans Bridges: A Journal of Student Research Coastal Carolina University Issue 3 (Winter 2009) Philip Whalen, Associate Professor of History Coastal Carolina University This essay compares two approaches to understanding the condition of free women of color who struggled to…

  • When Social Inequality Maps to Demographic Diversity, What Then for Liberal Democracies? Social Research: An International Quarterly Volume 77, Number 1 (Spring 2010) pages 1-20 ISBN: 978-1-933481-20-3 Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs Columbia University in the City of New York If social inequality results from discriminatory behaviors or policies based on membership in a race…

  • In Their Own Words with Michele Elam The Human Experience: inside the humanities at Stanford University 2011-04-15 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Stanford University  In this installment of “In Their Own Words” English professor Michele Elam discusses her latest research, which…

  • True Blood: The Vampire as a Multiracial Critique on Post-Race Ideology Journal of Dracula Studies Number 12 (2010) 19 pages Nicole Myoshi Rabin, Instructor of Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies Emerson College, Boston. Massachusetts In the Western consciousness there has been a long tradition of the associations between race and evil.  According to Celia R.…

  • Mixed race women speak out [Review] rabble.ca 2011-02-14 May Lui Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out by Adebe De Rango-Adem and Andrea Thompson, eds.(Inanna Publications, 2010) In the past 20 years Canada has seen a few mixed race anthologies that reflect both the time, place and language that we use to talk about being…

  • Review of Kessler, John S.; Ball, Donald B., North From the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio H-Net Reviews June 2002 Penny Messinger, Assistant Professor of History Daemen College, Amherst, New York John S. Kessler, Donald B. Ball. North From the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon…

  • North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio Mercer University Press 2001 220 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780865547032 John S. Kessler Donald B. Ball The newest book in Mercer University Press’ new series The Melungeons: History, Culture, Ethnicity, and Literature is North from the Mountains: A Folk History of…

  • Miscegenation Blues: Voices of Mixed Race Women is a stunning and long awaited collection of some of the most poignant writing by more than forty women of mixed racial heritage.

  • Creolization of the Atlantic World: The Portuguese and the Kongolese Portuguese Studies Volume 27, Number 1 (2011-03-01) pages 56-69 Francisco Bethencourt, Professor of History King’s College, London In the 1930s, Gilberto Freyre’s praise of mixed-race people in Brazil challenged the idea of white supremacy, contributing to the building of a new Brazilian identity. In the…