Month: April 2013

  • Gouldtown traces it’s history back 250 years, began with an interracial marriage

  • My favorite trivia question in baseball is, “Which Italian American player for the Brooklyn Dodgers once hit 40 home runs in a season?” Nobody ever gets it right, because the answer is Roy Campanella, who was as Italian as he was black. He had an Italian father and a black mother, but he’s always classified…

  • In Pursuit of Freedom: Slave Law and Emancipation in Louisville and Jefferson County, Kentucky The Filson Club History Quarterly July 2002 pages 287-325 J. Blaine Hudson (1950-2013), Professor of Pan-African Studies University of Louisville The lives of both free and enslaved African-Americans were constrained to varying degrees by the powerful and paradoxical role of race…

  • The African American Experience in Antebellum Cabell County, Virginia/West Virginia, 1810-1865 Ohio Valley History Filson Historical Society Volume 11, Number 3, Fall 2011 pages 3-23 Cicero M. Fain III, Assistant Professor of History College of Southern Maryland Located on the Ohio River in western Virginia, adjacent to southeastern Ohio and eastern Kentucky, antebellum Cabell County…

  • Bewildered in Boston HiLobrow 2011-11-12 Joshua Glenn, Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief Fanny Howe isn’t part of the local literary canon. But her seven novels about interracial love and utopian dreaming offer a rich social history of Boston in the 1960s and ’70s. [This essay first appeared in The Boston Globe’s IDEAS section, on March 7, 2004.]…

  • In “Chocolate and Corn Flour,” Laura A. Lewis explores the history and contemporary culture of San Nicolás, focusing on the ways in which local inhabitants experience and understand race, blackness, and indigeneity, as well as on the cultural values that outsiders place on the community and its residents.

  • The Barber of Natchez National Park Service Natchez: National Historical Park, Mississippi 2012-07-19 Timothy Van Cleave, Park Ranger Natchez National Historical Park The Life of William Johnson Known as the “barber” of Natchez, William Johnson began his life as a slave. His freedom at age eleven followed that of his mother Amy and his sister…

  • Mixing Race: The Kong Sing Brothers and Australian Sport Australian Historical Studies Volume 39, Issue 3 (2008) pages 338-355 DOI: 10.1080/10314610802263323 Gary Osmond, Lecturer School of Human Movement Studies University of Queensland Marie-Louise McDermott Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia Little research exists on the participation of Chinese in Australian sport in the colonial or…

  • Race Is a Four-Letter Word National Film Board of Canada 2006 00:55:21 Sobaz Benjamin Speaking biologically, ‘race’ is a spectral concept. Black, brown, red, white, and yellow, considered purely as skin colours, merit no more significance than a tattoo. The ‘skin your’re in’ is about as meaningful as ectoplasm. Scientists remind us that not only…

  • The Colour of Beauty National Film Board of Canada 2010 00:16:50 Elizabeth St. Philip Renee Thompson is trying to make it as a top fashion model in New York. She’s got the looks, the walk and the drive. But she’s a black model in a world where white women represent the standard of beauty. Agencies…