Month: January 2011

  • New NAACP Leader Looks Ahead National Public Radio Tell Me More 2008-05-20 Michel Martin, Host Benjamin Jealous is the new president of the NAACP. Jealous, a former news executive and lifelong human rights activist, discusses his new post and the ever-changing role of the NAACP in the civil rights movement. MICHEL MARTIN, host: I’m Michel…

  • He’s Black, Get Over It The American Prospect 2008-12-05 Adam Serwer We may not have chosen to be a hybrid people, anymore than we chose to come here in the first place, but that’s what we are now. And it’s a beautiful thing. In a provocatively titled op-ed for The Washington Post last Sunday, Marie…

  • He’s Not Black The Washington Post 2008-11-30   Marie Arana He is also half white. Unless the one-drop rule still applies, our president-elect is not black. We call him that—he calls himself that—because we use dated language and logic. After more than 300 years and much difficult history, we hew to the old racist rule:…

  • Mapping the liminal identities of mulattas in African, African American, and Caribbean literatures Pennsylvania State University December 2006 285 pages AAT: 3343682 ISBN: 9780549992738 Khadidiatou Gueye Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy December 2006 In twentieth-century African, African American, and Caribbean literatures, mixed-blood women are often misread…

  • Crossing borders, erasing boundaries: Interethnic marriages in Tucson, 1854-1930 University of Arizona 392 pages Publication Number: AAT 3398995 ISBN: 9781109735864 Salvador Acosta A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Department of History In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate College The University of Arizona This…

  • The Enigma Of Jefferson: Mind and Body In Conflict The New York Times 1998-11-07 Dinitia Smith For contemporary historians, Thomas Jefferson has always been an enigma, and the new DNA evidence that he fathered at least one child by his young slave Sally Hemings simply deep ens the mystery of the man. On the one…

  • The “Melting Pot” A Myth The Journal of Heridity Volume 8, Number 3 (March 1917) pages 99-105 Study of Members of Oldest American Families Shows that the Type is Still Very Diverse—No Amalgamation Going on to Produce a Strictly American Sub-Type—Characteristics of the Old American Stock America as “The Melting Pot” of peoples is a…

  • Untragic Mulatto: Charles Chesnutt and the Discourse of Whiteness American Literary History Volume 8, Number 3 (Fall 1996) pages 426-448 DOI: 10.1093/alh/8.3.426 Stephen P. Knadler Among Charles Chesnutt’s earliest political essays is a little studied piece that he wrote for the New York Independent entitled “What Is a White Man?” (1889). At a time when…

  • Dougla, Half-doogla, Travesao, and the Limits of Hybridity Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 7, Issues 1 & 2 (Fall 2009) 30 paragraphs ISSN 1547-7150 Jennifer Rahim, Senior Lecturer in English University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Discourses on Caribbean culture and identity have been, if anything, prolific and energetic in their manufacture and circulation…

  • The Mulatto Problem The Journal of Heredity Volume 16, Number 8 (August 1925) pages 281-286 Ernest Dodge Washington, D. C. The numerous races and subraces of mankind could hardly have maintained their distinct existence to so late a date in history save for the geographical barrier generally found between different stocks. The only other bulwarks against…