Day: February 13, 2011

  • Room For Debate: The ‘Two or More Races’ Dilemma The New York Times 2011-02-13 In Room for Debate, The New York Times invites knowledgeable outside contributors to discuss news events and other timely issues. Introduction An article in a Times series on the growing mixed-race population in the United States describes a debate over new…

  • Race, Sex and the Trials of a Young Explorer The New York Times 2011-02-13 Richard Conniff In 1859, Paul Du Chaillu, a young explorer of French origin and adopted American nationality, wandered out of the jungle after a four-year expedition in Gabon.  He brought with him complete specimens of 20 gorillas, an animal almost unknown…

  • Neither Black nor White: The Saga of an American Family The New World Africa Press 2006-03-03 252 pages 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ISBN-10: 0976876124; ISBN-13: 978-0976876120 Joseph E. Holloway, Professor of Pan African Studies California State University, Northridge Historical novel, which traces the history of the Hadnot family from Gloucester, England in 1585…

  • Hollywood’s Whiteout The New York Times 2011-02-11 Manohla Dargis A. O. Scott CRAMMED into this year’s field of 10 best picture Oscar nominees are British aristocrats, Volvo-driving Los Angeles lesbians, a flock of swans, a gaggle of Harvard computer geeks, clans of Massachusetts fighters and Missouri meth dealers, as well as 19th-century bounty hunters, dream…

  • Noting that free people of color never fully escaped the degrading effects of race-based slavery, David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine offer fourteen essays that explore women’s experiences of race, gender, and class in the slaveholding societies of the United States, the Caribbean, and South America.

  • Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas University of Illinois Press 2004 344 pages 6 x 9.25 in.  Illustrations: 25 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-02939-4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07194-2 Edited by David Barry Gaspar, Professor of History Duke University Darlene Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and History Northwestern University Black…

  • Determining the (In)Determinable: Race in Brazil and the United States Michigan Journal of Race & Law Volume 14, Issue 2 (Spring 2009) pages 143-195 D. Wendy Greene, Assistant Professor of Law Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama Recently, the Brazilian states of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Mato Grasso du Sol have implemented…

  • Racial Purity and Interracial Sex in the Law of Colonial and Antebellum Virginia Georgetown Law Review Volume 77, Number 6 (August 1989) pages 1967-2029 A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Judge (1928-1998) United States Court of Appeals (3rd Circuit) Barbara K. Kopytoff, Professor of Law (1938-1999) University of Pennsylvania I. Introduction There is probably no better place…