Day: November 14, 2009

  • Demystifying the “Tragic Mulatta”: the Biracial Woman as Spectacle Stanford Black Arts Quarterly Stanford University 2.3 (Summer/Spring 1997) Pages 12-14 Stafanie Dunning, Associate Professor and Director of Literature Program Miami University, Ohio “You know redbone girls got a problem.” —Cassandra Wilson, Blue Light ‘Til Dawn “Indigenous like corn, like corn the mestiza is a product…

  • The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy Carolina Academic Press January 2010 ISBN: 978-0-89089-085-1 Hardback Robert F. Turner, Associate Director at the Center for National Security Law University of Virginia School of Law In 2000, the newly formed Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society asked a group of more than a dozen senior scholars from across the country to carefully examine…