Day: April 28, 2012

  • Social Construction of Ethnicity Versus Personal Experience: The Case of Afro-Amerasians Journal of Comparative Family Studies Volume 29, Issue 2 (Summer 1998) pages 255-267 Teresa Kay Williams Michael C. Thornton, Professor of Afro-American Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison The article focuses on the existence of ethnic group differences in the U.S. and how the subgroup…

  • Just Finished Reading: Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South Random Thoughts on History: My musings on American, African American, Southern, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Public History topics and books. 2012-04-17 Tim Talbott Frankfort, Kentucky The practice of slavery created many complications. Not the least of these were the children produced by relationships…

  • The Winton Triangle The State of Things WUNC 91.5 North Carolina Public Radio 2011-06-17 Frank Stasio, Host Susan Davis, Senior Producer Marvin Jones, Historian Chowan Discovery Group More Americans marked at least two boxes for “race” on the 2010 Census than ever before. The country may not be increasingly multiracial but it certainly is increasingly…