Category: Media Archive

  • By unflinchingly charting the intersections of public and personal history, “Thrall” explores the historical, cultural, and social forces—across time and space—that determine the roles consigned to a mixed-race daughter and her white father.

  • Native Guard: Poems Mariner Books an Imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2007-04-03 64 pages Trim Size: 5.50 x 8.25 Paperback ISBN-13/EAN: 9780618872657; ISBN-10: 0618872655 Natasha Trethewey, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing Emory University Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught…

  • Wheeler traces the emergence of skin color as a predominant marker of identity in British thought and juxtaposes the Enlightenment’s scientific speculation on the biology of race with accounts in travel literature, fiction, and other documents that remain grounded in different models of human variety.

  • Households and Neighborhoods Among Free People of Color in New Orleans: A View from the Census, 1850-1860 University of New Orleans 2010-05-14 58 pages Frank Joseph Lovato A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History…

  • People Can Claim One or More Races On Federal Forms The New York Times 1997-10-30 Steven A. Holmes The Clinton Administration today adopted new rules for listing racial and ethnic makeup on Federal forms, allowing people for the first time to identify themselves as members of more than one race. The change, which could affect…

  • Born a Half-Caste Aboriginal Studies Press 1990 (revised edition) 78 pages 210 x1 50mm, b/w illus Paperback ISBN: 9780855751609 Margaret (Marnie) Kennedy (1919–1985) Marnie Kennedy was born in 1919 ‘on the bank of Coppermine Creek’. Her story takes us from her birthplace in Western Queensland, to Palm Island where she grew up ‘under the Act’,…

  • Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal people and the Australian Nation Aboriginal Studies Press September 2011 288 pages 230 x 152mm; b/w Illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9780855757793 Russell McGregor, Associate Professor of History James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia McGregor offers a holistic interpretation of the complex relationship between Indigenous and settler Australians during the middle four decades of…

  • Banneker’s family tree still bears rich fruit The Baltimore Sun 2006-06-12 Gregory Kane And so Molly Welsh, an Englishwoman sentenced to indentured servitude in 17th-century Maryland, wed an African slave named Bannaka. And they begat four daughters, one of whom was named Mary. And Mary wed a slave named Robert, who took her last name,…

  • Romancing the Raj: Interracial Relations in Anglo-Indian Romance Novels History of Intellectual Culture Volume 4, Number 1 (2004) ISSN 1492-7810 Hsu-Ming Teo, Senior Lecturer and Head of Modern History Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia This article examines Anglo-Indian romance novels written by British women during the period of the Raj. It argues that these love stories…

  • Q&A: Professor examines those ‘outside the color lines’ in new book University of Wisconsin-Madison News 2012-10-20 Jenney Price The history of segregation in the United States is often seen in black and white. Leslie Bow, professor of English and Asian American studies, is interested in the experiences of communities that fell outside those color lines.…