Day: April 24, 2011

  • Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana’s Free People of Color Louisiana State University Press August 2000 344 pages Trim: 6 x 9 , Illustrations: 14 halftones Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2601-1 Edited by: Sybil Kein (born Consuela Marie Moore), Distinguished Professor of English Emerita University of Michigan The word Creole evokes a richness rivaled only by…

  • PBS series explores black culture in Latin America 2011-04-18 Jennifer Kay Associated Press MIAMI—On a street in a seaside city in Brazil, four men describe themselves to Henry Louis Gates Jr. as black. Flabbergasted, the Harvard scholar insists they compare their skin tones with his. In a jumble, their forearms form a mocha spectrum. Oh,…

  • Exploring the Popularization of the Mixed Race American The Human Experience: Inside the Humanities at Stanford University 2011-04-22 Stanford Scholar Investigates the “Mulatto Millennium” through Literature, Theatre, Art, & Pop Culture The United States has its first mixed race president, a man with a black African father and white American mother. Actress Halle Barry, golfer…

  • Long uncovers a connection between the geographical segregation of prostitution and the rising tide of racial segregation. She offers a compelling explanation of how New Orleans’s lucrative sex trade drew tourists from the Bible Belt and beyond even as a nationwide trend toward the commercialization of sex emerged.