Month: October 2012

  • Remarkable Particulars: David Gamut and the Alchemy of Race in The Last of the Mohicans ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance Volume 58, Number 1, 2012 (No. 226 O.S.) pages 36-70 DOI: 10.1353/esq.2012.0010 Deidre Dallas Hall University of North Carolina, Greensboro David Gamut, the hapless psalmodist traveling with Major Heyward and his charges in…

  • From Paranoid to Reparative: Narratives of Cultural Identification in the Social Sciences Journal of Narrative Theory Volume 42, Number 2, Summer 2012 pages 193-211 DOI: 10.1353/jnt.2012.0007 Ashley Barnwell, Ashworth Lecturer in Sociology School of Social and Political Sciences University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia This article tries to draw out the complexity with which…

  • “Maneuvers of Silence and the Task of ‘New Negro’ Womanhood” Journal of Narrative Theory Volume 42, Number 1, Spring 2012 pages 46-68 DOI: 10.1353/jnt.2012.0006 Emily M. Hinnov, Assistant Dean of Curriculum & Lecturer of English Granite State College, Concord, New Hampshire Yes, she has arrived. Like her white sister, she is the product of profound…

  • The Crime of Being Married Life Magazine 1966-03-18 pages 85- Source: Library of Virginia Photographs by Grey Villet A Virginia couple fights to overturn an old law against miscegenation She is Negro, he is white, and they are married. This puts them in a kind of legal purgatory in their home state of Virginia, which…

  • Drawn in Bloodlines: Blood, Pollution, Identity, and Vampires in Japanese Society University of Texas, Austin May 2012 117 pages Benjamin Paul Miller Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts This thesis is an examination…

  • The New Virginia Law To Preserve Racial Integrity Virginia Health Bulletin Virginia Department of Health Volume XVI, Extra Number 2 (March 1924) pages 1-4 Source: Pamphlet: Rockbridge County Clerk’s Correspondence, 1912–1943. Local Government Records Collection. The Library of Virginia, (Racial Integrity Act Documents) 12-1245-005 W. A. Plecker, M. D. State Registrar of Vital Statistics, Richmond,…

  • In 1898, journalist Louis J. Beck offered the reading public what he saw as a valuable case study in “heredity and racial traits and tendencies.” This case study was none other than the infamous “half-breed” criminal George Washington Appo (1856–1930), whose name was virtually a household word for New Yorkers of the time.

  • When President Obama greets African-Americans who broke barriers, he almost invariably uses the same line.

  • Reaping the Whirlwind The New York Times Opinionator: Exculive Online Commentary From The Times 2012-10-17 Linda Greenhouse, Senior Research Scholar in Law, Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence, and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law Yale University On reading the transcript and listening to the audio of last week’s Supreme Court argument in the University of Texas affirmative action…

  • ‘Master’ Jefferson: Defender Of Liberty, Then Slavery Fresh Air from WHYY National Public Radio 2012-10-18 Maureen Corrigan, Book Critic His public words have inspired millions, but for scholars, his private words and deeds generate confusion, discomfort, apologetic excuses. When the young Thomas Jefferson wrote, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are…