Category: Media Archive

  • The recent discovery of Richard Greener’s papers could fill some of the gaps in his biography.

  • ‘Brown babies’ long search for family, identity Indianapolis Recorder 2011-11-23 Stephanie Siek (CNN) — Daniel Cardwell’s obsession consumed three decades of his life and $250,000 of his money, he estimates. His energy has been devoted to answering one basic question: “Who am I?” Cardwell was a “brown baby”—one of thousands of children born to African-American…

  • A Lesson from Philadelphia’s Little Film Festival that Could Colorlines: News for Action 2012-08-10 Akiba Solomon, Columnist, Gender Matters For a four-day event that began as a small assortment of screenings, there were plenty of major moments at Philadelphia’s inaugural BlackStar Film Festival last week. Curated in less than a year by producer and filmmaker…

  • Making The Application Valley Spirit Franklin County, Virginia 1867-10-02 page 1, column 8 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library Relates a ficticious story about a conversation between two white men, one Republican the other Democrat, in which the consequences of black suffrage are discussed. Several days ago a…

  • “Vulnerable” Populations—Medicine, Race, and Presumptions of Identity   Virtual Mentor: American Medical Association Journal of Ethics Volume 13, Number 2 (February 2011) pages 124-127 Karla F. C. Holloway, Ph.D., MLS, James B. Duke Professor of English and Professor of Law Duke University, Durham, North Carolina At the beginning of the twentieth century, renowned sociologist William…

  • When Family Trees Are Gnarled by Race The New York Times 2012-09-08 Brent Staples My paternal grandfather, Marshall Staples (1898-1969), was one of the millions of black Southerners who moved north in the Great Migration. Those of us in the family who were born Yankees in the years just after World War II were given…

  • Can Science Explain the Concept of Race? PsycCRITIQUES Volume 57, Release 16 (2012-04-18) Article 4 5 pages Lundy Braun, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Medical Science and Africana Studies Brown University Amed Logrono, Senior Human Biology Major Brown University A review of Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture…

  • Cameron reshuffle brings critic of legal aid cuts into ministry of justice The Guardian 2012-09-05 Owen Bowcott, Legal Affairs Correspondent New Conservative minister Helen Grant criticised coalition policy on Guardian website last year One of the new ministerial appointees to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has previously been highly critical of the government’s key policy…

  • Alexander Saxton, Historian and Novelist, Dies at 93 The New York Times 2012-09-01 Paul Vitello Alexander Saxton, who would go on to become a prominent historian of race in America, summed himself up in a blurb on the dust jacket of his first novel, “Grand Crossing,” published when he was 24. “At various times,” he…

  • Mulattos of St. Domingo General Advertiser Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Wednesday, 1792-03-14 (Number 455) Souce: Professor of History John Garrigus (University of Texas, Arlington) Are the motley breed of landholders, gentlemen adventurers, parsimonious merchants, factors, clerks, managers, and plantation-overseers from Europe. The progenitors of this yellow tribe were generally persons who came out from France and other…