Category: Media Archive

  • Gender and the manumission of slaves in colonial Brazil: The prospects for freedom in Sabará, Minas Gerais, 1710–1809 Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies Volume 18, Issue 2, 1997 pages 1-29 DOI: 10.1080/01440399708575208 Kathleen J. Higgins On 9 December 1735 Manoel da Costa Braga declared before the notary of Sabará, Minas…

  • Manumission in nineteenth-century Virginia Cliometrica: A Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History Volume 5, Issue 2 (June 2011) pages 145-164 DOI: 10.1007/s11698-010-0056-x Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina Using previously unexploited data, this paper explores the ages at which slaves were manumitted. OLS estimates reveal that mixed-race slaves, slaves in…

  • Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay University of North Carolina Press October 2010 256 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 14 illus., 9 tables, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3417-6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-7158-4 George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor of History University of Pittsburgh 2011 Arthur P. Whitaker Prize, Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American…

  • Finding Grace: Two Sisters and the Search for Meaning Beyond the Color Line Simon & Schuster July 2007 296 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 0743200543; ISBN-13: 9780743200547 Shirlee Taylor Haizlip In her widely acclaimed, bestselling memoir, The Sweeter the Juice, Shirlee Taylor Haizlip asked us to redefine our concepts of race and family by examining her biracial…

  • This is the first book to place the self-fashioning of mixed-race individuals in the context of a Black Atlantic. Drawing on a wide range of sources and a diverse cast of characters – from the diaries, letters, novels and plays of femme fatales in Congo and the United States to the advertisements, dissertations, oral histories…

  • Social Construction of Ethnicity Versus Personal Experience: The Case of Afro-Amerasians Journal of Comparative Family Studies Volume 29, Issue 2 (Summer 1998) pages 255-267 Teresa Kay Williams Michael C. Thornton, Professor of Afro-American Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison The article focuses on the existence of ethnic group differences in the U.S. and how the subgroup…

  • Just Finished Reading: Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South Random Thoughts on History: My musings on American, African American, Southern, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Public History topics and books. 2012-04-17 Tim Talbott Frankfort, Kentucky The practice of slavery created many complications. Not the least of these were the children produced by relationships…

  • The Winton Triangle The State of Things WUNC 91.5 North Carolina Public Radio 2011-06-17 Frank Stasio, Host Susan Davis, Senior Producer Marvin Jones, Historian Chowan Discovery Group More Americans marked at least two boxes for “race” on the 2010 Census than ever before. The country may not be increasingly multiracial but it certainly is increasingly…

  • Norbert Rillieux and a Revolution in Sugar Processing American Chemical Society National Historic Chemical Landmarks: Norbert Rillieux and a Revolution in Sugar Processing 2002 Judah Ginsberg Portrait of Norbert Rillieux (undated). Dedicated April 18, 2002 at Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana Norbert Rillieux: Chemist and Engineer The birth record on file in New Orleans…

  • Beyoncé, beauty and the all mighty dollar Insight News Minneapolis, Minnesota 2012-03-09 Irma McClaurin, Ph.D., Culture and Education Editor Just for the record, we are not in, nor has there ever been, a post-racial moment in America.  And so, we must dive deep into historical memory of this country to understand why all the fuss…