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Day: January 29, 2012

  • Unfixing Race: Class, Power, and Identity in an Interracial Family

    Unfixing Race: Class, Power, and Identity in an Interracial Family The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Volume 102, Number 3 (July, 1994) pages 349-380 Thomas E. Buckley, S.J., Professor of American Religious History Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley Santa Clara University This article is also available as a chapter in Martha Hode’s (ed.) Sex,…

  • Gene Flow from White into Negro Populations in Brazil

    Gene Flow from White into Negro Populations in Brazil American Journal of Human Genetics Volume 9, Number 4 (December 1957) pages 299–309 P. H. Saldanha Department of General Biology University of Sao Paulo, Brazil GLASS AND Li (1953) have introduced a statistical model that allows calculations to be made, not only of the intermixture between…

  • For Obama, Estranged in a Strange Land, Aloha Had Its Limits

    For Obama, Estranged in a Strange Land, Aloha Had Its Limits The New York Times 2007-04-09 Lawrence Downes Reporters have been shuttling across the Pacific lately in search of the early chapters of Senator Barack Obama’s life story. Their guidebook is his memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” in which he describes his adolescence in Honolulu—where…

  • The Politics of Race

    The Politics of Race The New York Times 2008-11-04 The editorial writers Lawrence Downes and Brent Staples discuss how Senator Obama’s mixed-race identity has shaped his persona and his candidacy. View the video here (00:05:13).

  • The Interracial Family in Children’s Literature

    The Interracial Family in Children’s Literature The Reading Teacher Volume 31, Number 8 (May, 1978) pages 909-915 Margo Alexandre Long Books about interracial families have just recently begun to reflect America’s pluralistic society. A Discussion of the interracial family (a family unit in which members are of various racial backgrounds) in American children’s literature must…

  • Creoles of Color of the Gulf South

    Creoles of Color of the Gulf South University of Tennessee Press 1996 208 pages Paper ISBN: 0-87049-917-3 Edited by: James H. Dormon, Alumni Distinguished Professor of history and American Studies University of Southwestern Louisiana Consisting of eight original essays by noted scholars, this volume examines the history and culture of a unique population—those peoples in…

  • Why Race Isn’t as ‘Black’ and ‘White’ as We Think

    Why Race Isn’t as ‘Black’ and ‘White’ as We Think The New York Times 2005-10-31 Brent Staples People have occasionally asked me how a black person came by a “white” name like Brent Staples. One letter writer ridiculed it as “an anchorman’s name” and accused me of making it up. For the record, it’s a…

  • Miscegenation and the Free Negro in Antebellum “Anglo” Alabama: A Reexamination of Southern Race Relations

    Miscegenation and the Free Negro in Antebellum “Anglo” Alabama: A Reexamination of Southern Race Relations The Journal of American History Volume 68, Number 1 (June 1981) pages 16-34 Gary B. Mills (1944-2002), Associate Professor of History University of Alabama, Gadsden More than a quarter-century ago, the southern historian Frank L. Owsley predicted: “If the history…