Day: November 18, 2017

  • One in Twelve Mary Frances Berry 2014-12-25 Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History University of Pennsylvania When I read in the New Orleans Times Picayune that about 12 percent of Louisiana residents who identify themselves as white have at least 1 percent African ancestry, or one…

  • Review: Identity in Passing: RACE-ING and E-RACE-ING in American and African American History The Journal of African American History Volume 101, No. 3, Summer 2016 pages 344-355 DOI: 10.5323/jafriamerhist.101.3.0344 Thomas J. Davis, Professor of History Arizona State University, Tempe Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity. Waco, TX: Baylor…

  • “We Are Who We Say We Are” provides a detailed, nuanced account of shifting forms of racial identification within an extended familial network and constrained by law and social reality.