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  • Images of Latin American mestizaje and the politics of comparison

    Images of Latin American mestizaje and the politics of comparison Bulletin of Latin American Research Volume 23, Number 3 (2004) pp. 355–366 DOI: 10.1111/j.0261-3050.2004.00113.x Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester In a presidential address to the Organization of American Historians, Gary Nash (1995) reveals ‘the hidden history of mestizo America’ (by which…

  • Love’s Revolution: Interracial Marriage

    “Love’s Revolution” traces the social changes that account for the growth of intermarriage as well as the lingering prejudices and false beliefs that oppress racially mixed families.

  • Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance

    Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance The University of Chicago Press 2001 232 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 9780226536637 Rachel F. Moran, Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law University of California, Los Angeles As late as the 1960s, states could legally punish minorities who either had sex with or married persons…

  • Love and Race Caught in the Public Eye

    Love and Race Caught in the Public Eye ND Newswire University of Notre Dame 2001-05-31 Heidi Ardizzone, Assistant Professor of American Studies University of Notre Dame Earl Lewis, Provost Emory University Lovers seek to create a place that they can inhabit together against the obstacles of the world. Marriage promises that they will live in…

  • Sex, Segregation, and the Sacred after Brown

    This article explores how religion served as a vessel for one particular language crucial to racial segregation in the South: the language of miscegenation. It was through sex that racial segregation in the South moved from being a local social practice to a part of the divine plan for the world. It was thus through…

  • Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

    The debate over the affair between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings rarely rises above the question of “Did they or didn’t they?” But lost in the argument over the existence of such a relationship are equally urgent questions about a history that is more complex, both sexually and culturally, than most of us realize.

  • Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery

    Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery Northeastern University Press University Press of New England 1997 160 pages EAN: 978-1-55553-307-6 Louisa May Alcott Edited by Sarah Elbert, Professor Emerita of History The State University of New York, Binghamton The passionate supporter of abolition and women’s rights speaks out on the most controversial issues of…

  • Aisha Khan Lecture – New York University Professor Aisha Khan Speaks on Multiculturalism

    Aisha Khan Lecture – New York University Professor Aisha Khan Speaks on Multiculturalism St. Augustine News – STAN University of the West Indies July-September 2006 Page 24 Alake Pilgrim [Article copied in full for readability.  To read in original print layout version (with photographs), click here.] On the surface of things, Professor Aisha Khan, lecturer…

  • ‘But most of all mi love me browning’: The Emergence in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Jamaica of the Mulatto Woman as the Desired

    ‘But most of all mi love me browning’: The Emergence in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Jamaica of the Mulatto Woman as the Desired Feminist Review(on-Line) Volume 65, Issue 1 June 2000 pages 22 – 48 DOI: 10.1080/014177800406921 Patricia Mohammed, Head and Lecturer Centre for Gender and Development Studies, Mona Unit University of the West Indies, Kingston,…

  • “The Ineffaceable Curse of Cain”: Racial Marking and Embodiment in Pinky

    “The Ineffaceable Curse of Cain”: Racial Marking and Embodiment in Pinky Camera Obscura 43 (Volume 15, Number 1), 2000 pp. 94-121 Elspeth Kydd Look at my fingers, are not the nails of a bluish tinge . . . that is the ineffaceable curse of Cain . . . Dion Boucicault, The Octoroon, or Life in…