Tag: Brooklyn Historical Society

  • PHOTOS: 3rd Annual What Are You? Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Brooklyn Historical Society Fall 2013 Nayantara Sen, CBBG Project Associate All photos by Willie Davis for Brooklyn Historical Society, 2013 Steven Riley, Founder of MixedRaceStudies.org gives a few remarks before introducing one of the panels. A participant in the packed the house in Brooklyn Historical…

  • Science Fiction and Multiraciality: From Octavia Butler to Harry Potter Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Saturday, 2013-12-14, 14:00-17:00 EST (Local Time) How do science fiction narratives investigate questions about identity, racism, and fear? Join us for a fun, interactive presentation and dialogue about mixed-race identity in the Harry Potter franchise, the legacy of…

  • What’s Biology Got to Do with It? The Social Life of Genetics Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Saturday, 2013-11-16, 15:00-18:00 EST (Local Time) Part One of the reading series Quantifying Bloodlines What do we learn about ourselves through genetics and genealogy? How does DNA connect with what we know about our family’s ancestry…

  • 3rd Annual: What Are You? – A Discussion about Mixed Heritage Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Saturday, 2013-11-09, 14:00 EST (Local Time) From the Travyon Martin murder trial, to racist responses to the Cheerios commercial starring an interracial couple, recent media events illustrate that the U.S is definitely not post-racial. Join BHS in…

  • Reading Series: Quantifying Bloodlines Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Othmer Library Saturdays, 2013-11-16, 2013-12-07 and 2014-01-25; 15:00-18:00 EST (Local Time) Quantifying Bloodlines is a monthly reading group organized by anthropologist and oral historian Jennifer Scott.  Join others interested in exploring the relationship between biology and race, as we discuss three widely acclaimed books.…

  • What’s History Got to Do with It? Evolving Classifications of Race Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Othmer Library Saturday, 2014-01-25, 15:00-18:00 EST (Local Time) Part Three of the reading series Quantifying Bloodlines How did historical distinctions emerge, such as: mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, creole, 1/16th Native American…? What is the one-drop rule? Why do…

  • What’s Purity Got to Do with It? Searching Family History and Genealogy Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Othmer Library Saturday, 2013-12-07, 15:00-18:00 EST (Local Time) Part Two of the reading series Quantifying Bloodlines How do stories help us to understand the ways in which we dissect lineage? Bring in your own family tree,…

  • Photo of the Week: An Interracial Family in 1962 The Brooklyn Historical Society Blog The Brooklyn Historical Society 2013-06-05 Sady Sullivan, Director of Oral History The Bibuld Family, ca. 1962, V1989.22.14; Bob Adelman photographs of Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) demonstrations collection, V1989.002; Brooklyn Historical Society. This photograph from the Brooklyn Congress of Racial…

  • US Census: Rationalizing Race in US History Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Brooklyn Historical Society, Othmer Library Brooklyn, New York 2013-04-18, 19:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) View the full video of the event here. What boxes do you mark on the U.S. Census to describe your heritage? Prior to the year 2000, multiracial people could only check…

  • Reflections on Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Brooklyn Historical Society November 2012 Rita Kamani-Renedo Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend the second biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at DePaul University in Chicago. I was excited to return after having attended the inaugural conference in 2010. This time,…