Category: Media Archive

  • Reacting to the rising numbers of mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian-Black African) people in its New Spain colony, the eighteenth-century Bourbon government of Spain attempted to categorize and control its colonial subjects through increasing social regulation of their bodies and the spaces they inhabited.

  • In brilliant novelistic detail, award-winning historian John Bailey reconstructs the exotic sights, sounds, and smells of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, an “infernal motley crew” of cotton kings, decadent river workers, immigrants, and slaves. Miller’s dramatic trial offers an eye into the fascinating laws and customs surrounding slavery, immigration, and racial mixing.

  • Bridging: How Gloria Anzaldúa’s Life and Work Transformed Our Own University of Texas Press April 2011 292 pages 6 x 9 in., 6 b&w photos Edited by: AnaLouise Keating, Professor of Women’s Studies Texas Woman’s University Gloria González-López, Associate Professor of Sociology, and Faculty Associate Center for Mexican American Studies Center for Women’s and Gender…

  • Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon’s, and “Black Skin, White Masks” represents some of his most important work.

  • A Free Man of Color Grove/Atlantic, Inc. October 2011 112 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4566-6 John Guare John Guare’s new play is astonishing, raucous, and panoramic. A Free Man of Color is set in boisterous New Orleans prior to the historic Louisiana Purchase. Before law and order took hold and class,…

  • Acclaimed author reveals secret Scottish roots in moving tribute Daily Record Glasgow, Scotland 2011-05-08 Maggie Barry Sunday Mail Writer Aminatta Forna has been called many things in her life but never Scottish—until today. The African author’s fearless books exposing betrayal and treachery in Sierra Leone have brought critical acclaim and awards. But only now has…

  • The Memory of Love Grove/Atlantic, Inc. January 2011 464 pages Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-1965-0 Paperback ISBN 13: 978-0-8021-4568-0 Aminatta Forna Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book Finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction An Essence Book Club Pick From the award-winning author of The Devil That Danced on the Water and Ancestor Stones…

  • Between black and miscegenated population groups: sickle cell anemia and sickle cell trait in Brazil in the 1930s and 1940s História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos Volume 18, Number 2 (April/June 2011) 29 pages DOI: 10.1590/S0104-59702011000200007 Juliana Manzoni Cavalcanti, PhD candidate Graduate Program on History of the Sciences and Health Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Marcos Chor…

  • First Annual Convention Report: Black German Cultural Society NJ Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey German Historical Institute Washington, D.C. 2011-08-19 through 2011-08-21 14 pages By Priscilla Layne and S. Marina Jones The First Annual Black German Cultural Society, NJ Convention was an important opportunity for scholars, students, and individuals personally affected by Afrogerman…

  • The Stain of White: Liaisons, Memories, and White Men as Relatives Men and Masculinities Volume 9, Number 2 (October 2006) pages 131-151 DOI: 10.1177/1097184X06287764 Janaki Abraham, Assistant Professor Women Studies Jawaharlal Neru University During British colonial rule some matrilineal Thiyya women in North Kerala, India, had liaisons with British men. While the response of the…