Day: June 19, 2011

  • Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past University of California Press November 2003 332 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780520240704 David R. Roediger, Babcock Professor of History University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign David R. Roediger’s powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a “still white” nation.…

  • The Hudson River School via Cincinnati Chronogram: Arts, Culture, Spirit Kingston, New York 2011-05-28 Sparrow “History can be blind,” observes Joseph D. Ketner II, curator of “Robert S. Duncanson: ‘the spiritual striving of the freedmen’s sons,’” an exhibition at the Thomas Cole National Historical Site in Catskill. Duncanson (1821-1872) was an African-American landscape painter, once…

  • It’s an interesting historical moment to be a white mother of a Black child, as another white mother’s Black child is running for president of the United States. Who’d have thought?