Month: May 2012

  • Cultural Reconstruction: Nation, Race, and the Invention of the American Magazine, 1830-1915 University of Maryland 2003-12-19 504 pages Reynolds J. Scott-Childress, Assistant Professor of History New Paltz, State University of New York Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree…

  • BLACK, TRIGUEÑO, WHITE…? Shifting Racial Identification among Puerto Ricans Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 2, Issue 2 (2005) pages 267-285 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X05050186 Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Research Associate Center for Puerto Rican Studies Hunter College, City University of New York The use of U.S.-oriented racial categories in the 2000 decennial census conducted by…

  • Brian Bantum Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (Founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode 254: Brian Bantum When: Wednesday, 2012-05-02, 21:00Z (17:00 EDT, 14:00 PDT) Brian Bantum, Associate Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific…

  • A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655–1844 University of The West Indies Press 2006 400 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-976-640-178-8 Author: Lucille Mathurin Mair (1925-2009) Edited by: Hilary McD. Beckles, Principal University of The West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados Verene A. Shepherd, University Director Centre for Gender & Dev Std-RC: Centre Research/Teaching…

  • A bumper crop of works on influential early 20th century American racists, fascists and eugenicists has been hitting the bookshelves in 2009. Two of the most interesting are on Madison Grant (1865-1937), perhaps the most important conservationist of his time and so pernicious a racist and anti-Semite that he helped inspire Hitler’s policies, and Lawrence…

  • Brazil’s top court backs racial quotas in universities The Australian 2012-05-01 BRAZIL’s Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that racial quotas used in universities are constitutional and are meant to redress inequalities stemming from centuries of slavery. The ruling issued by the 10-member court concerned the case of the University of Brasilia which in 2004 set…

  • “Which box am I?”: Towards a Culturally Grounded, Contextually Meaningful Method of Racial and Ethnic Categorization in Puerto Rico Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey August 2009 59 pages Isar P. Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Research Associate Center for Puerto Rican Studies Hunter College,…

  • The lessons of slavery: Discourses of slavery, mestizaje, and blanqueamiento in an elementary school in Puerto Rico American Ethnologist Volume 35 Number 1 (February 2008) pages 115-135 DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00009.x Isar P. Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Mariolga Reyes Cruz Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Mariluz Franco-Ortiz…

  • “A Class of People Neither Freemen nor Slaves”: From Spanish to American Race Relations in Florida, 1821-1861 Journal of Social History Volume 26, Number 3 (Spring, 1993) pages 587-609 Daniel L. Schafer, Professor of History emeritus University of North Florida This essay examines the status of free blacks in Florida, focusing on the transition from…

  • Frau Doktor Nancy Stafford of Georgia: From Slave to Physician The African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter March 2009 ISSN: 1933-8651 95 pages Mary R. Bullard Tracy Moxhay Castle Chapter 1 In 1850 a cotton planter named Robert Stafford fathered a daughter (later named Cornelia) by a woman named “Juda.” Three years later Juda bore him a…