Day: September 14, 2010

  • Righteous Fathers, Vulnerable Old Men and Degraded Creatures: Southern Justices on Miscegenation in the Antebellum Will Contest Tulsa Law Review Volume 40 (2005) pages 699- Bernie D. Jones, Associate Professor of Law Suffolk University Although scholars have long addressed the role of legislators and local elites in policing the color line between black and white,…

  • What’s in a Name? Mixed-Race Families and Resistance to Racial Codification in Eighteenth-Century France French Historical Studies Volume 33, Number 3 (2010) Pages 357-385 DOI: 10.1215/00161071-2010-002 Jennifer L. Palmer, Collegiate Assistant Professor of History University of Chicago The Saint-Domingue planter Aimé-Benjamin Fleuriau did not simply leave colonialism behind when he returned to his hometown La…

  • It’s a wonderful, mixed-up world The Daily Telegraph 2009-11-01 Aarathi Prasad There are now more mixed-race children than ever before—and that is something for us all to celebate, says the scientist Aarathi Prasad Just two weeks ago in Louisiana, an American Justice of the Peace made international news for refusing to issue marriage licences to…

  • Variability and Racial Mixture The American Naturalist Volume 61, Number 672 (Jan. – Feb., 1927) paages 68-81 Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963), Professor of Anthropology and African Studies Northwestern University [Read a biographical memoir by Joseph C. Greenberg here.] [From Northwestern University: In 1948, Herskovits founded the Program of African Studies (PAS) at Northwestern, the first…