Month: February 2010

  • The Monticello Mystery-Case Continued William and Mary Quarterly Volume LVIII, Number 4 (October 2001) Reviews of Books Alexander O. Boulton, Professor of History Stevenson University (formerly Villa Julie College) The Jefferson-Hemings Myth: An American Travesty. Edited by Eyler Robert Coates, Sr. (Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, 2001. Pp. 207.) A President in the Family:…

  • Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina (Review) William and Mary Quarterly Volume LX, Number 1 (January 2003) Reviews of Books Richard Godbeer, Professor of History University of Miami Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina. By Kirsten Fischer. (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 265.)…

  • I’m Color-blind But What Are You, Anyway? Electronic Journal of Sociology (2007) ISSN: 1198 3655 Kathleen Korgen, Professor of Sociology William Paterson University Eileen O’Brien, Assistant Professor of Sociology Christopher Newport University Using primary data from interviews conducted with 1) close black-white friends and 2) biracial Americans, we examine the relationship between the traditional fixation…

  • Multicultural/Multiracial Psychology: Mestizo Perspectives in Personality and Mental Health  Jason Aronson an imprint of Rowman Littelfield 1997 296 pages Cloth 0-7657-0073-5 / 978-0-7657-0073-5 Manuel Ramirez, III, Professor of Psychology University of Texas, Austin also Clinical Professor of Psychology University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas This book presents a cognitive styles framework that explores the…

  • Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South (Book Review) Civil War Book Review Louisiana State University Special Collections Kelly Kennington, 2009-2010 Law & Society Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Legal Studies University of Wisconsin Law School Jones, Bernie D. Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South, University of Georgia Press. 216 pages.…

  • Jean Toomer and Cane: “Mixed-Blood” Impossibilities Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory Volume 64, Number 4, Winter 2008 E-ISSN: 1558-9595, Print ISSN: 0004-1610 DOI: 10.1353/arq.0.0025 Gino Michael Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California Even though Jean Toomer was black and white, his fascination with miscegenation in…

  • Tiger Woods Is Not the End of History: or, Why Sex across the Color Line Won’t Save Us All The American Historical Review Volume 108, Number 5 December 2003 Henry Yu, Professor of History University of California, Los Angeles In December 1996, several months after Tiger Woods left Stanford University to become a professional golfer,…

  • Meet the New Faculty: Jennifer Brody Duke Today The Duke Community’s Daily News and Information Resource Duke University 2008-10-22 Andrea Fereshteh Exploring the intersection of race, gender and art Durham, North Carolina — From a very early age, Jennifer Brody was curious about the intersection of art, gender and race. She recalls a time as…

  • Fort Red Border Sarabande Books 2009-08-01 88 pages Trim: 9 x 6 Paper ISBN: 978-1-932511-74-1 Kiki Petrosino, Professor of Poetry University of Virginia Kiki Petrosino has audacity to spare. She devotes the entire first section of her debut collection of poems to a putative affair the speaker is conducting with an imaginary Robert Redford. In…

  • “Every year approximately 12,000 white-skinned Negroes disappear — people whose absence cannot be explained by death or emigration. Nearly every one of the 14 million discernible Negroes in the United States knows at least one member of his race who is ‘passing’ — the magic word which means that some Negroes can get by as…