Category: Media Archive

  • Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750–1860 Cambridge University Press September 2014 326 pages 25 b/w illus. 6 maps 7 tables 236 x 157 x 22 mm Hardback ISBN: 9781107052864 Paperback ISBN: 9781107674745 eBook ISBN: 9781139990660 Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Professor of History Ohio State University, Newark A case…

  • Results of the 2016 Election American Sociological Association Washington, D.C. 2016-06-07 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University, has been elected the 109th President of the American Sociological Association (ASA). Christopher Uggen, University of Minnesota, has been elected Vice President. Bonilla-Silva and Uggen will assume their respective offices in August 2017, following a year of service as President-elect…

  • Filling in Gaps in the Historical Record: Accuracy, Authenticity, and Closure in Ann Rinaldi’s Wolf by the Ears Children’s Literature Volume 44, 2016 pages 21-60 DOI: 10.1353/chl.2016.0018 Brian Dillon, Professor of English Montana State University-Billings Ann Rinaldi, Wolf by the Ears, (New York: Scholastic, 1993). This novel, narrated by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ daughter,…

  • Does Race Matter in Latin America? Foreign Affairs Volume 94, Number 2 (March/April 2015) Deborah J. Yashar, Professor of Politics and International Affairs Princeton University In 1992, the Nobel Committee awarded its Peace Prize to Rigoberta Menchú Tum, the daughter of poor Guatemalan peasants, for her work promoting indigenous rights. Her prize, momentous in its…

  • Mixed race author on the struggle of having to ‘pick a side’ The Voice 2016-06-05 Davina Hamilton, Entertainment Editor LIFETIME OF LOVE: Gus and sister Chi-chi with their parents Michael and Margaret Author Gus Nwanokwu on growing up with a Nigerian father and Irish mother in 1960s Britain THE PRESSURE to ‘pick a side’, the…

  • Black Shamrocks: Accommodation Available – No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2016-03-24 482 pages 15.2 x 2.8 x 22.9 cm Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1523490912 Gus Michael Nwanokwu While many academics and social scientists have examined the psychological and societal implications of growing up as a mixed-race person, few works exist that chronicle…

  • Black Man, White House: An Oral History of the Obama Administration William Morrow (an imprint of HarperCollins) 2016-06-07 352 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780062399793 Ebook ISBN: 9780062399816 6 in (w) x 9 in (h) x 1.09 in (d) D. L. Hughley From legendary comedian D.L. Hughley comes a bitingly funny send-up of the Obama years, as…

  • “Passing” meets “The House of Mirth: in this “utterly captivating” (Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of “The Kitchen House”) historical novel based on the true story of Anita Hemmings, the first black student to attend Vassar, who successfully passed as white—until she let herself grow too attached to the wrong person.

  • Impeachment, culture wars and the politics of identity in Brazil The Conversation 2016-05-26 Marshall Eakin, Professor of History Vanderbilt University Brazil is in the midst of its worst political crisis since the 1960s and possibly its most severe economic downturn in the last 100 years. The economy will not – and cannot – improve until…

  • A Strange Emblem for a (Not So) White Nation: La Morocha Argentina in the Latin American Racial Context, c. 1900–2015 Journal of Social History DOI: 10.1093/jsh/shw018 First published online: 2016-06-01 Ezequiel Adamovsky This article explores the origins of La morocha argentina as an unofficial national emblem, the personification of the quintessential Argentinean woman, from its…