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  • Interracial Intimacies: An Examination of Powerful Men and Their Relationships across the Color Line

    Unique among books on interracial relationships, this book examines the lives of high profile men who have produced public discourses on race and interracial relationships and who themselves, often contradictory to their rhetoric, were or continue to be involved in love relationships across the color line.

  • My Bondage and My Freedom

    My Bondage and My Freedom Yale University Press 2014 (originally published in 1855 by Miller, Orton & Mulligan) 432 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 9780300190595 Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) Introduction and Notes by David W. Blight Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition…

  • Men do not love those who remind them of their sins—unless they have a mind to repent—and the mulatto child’s face is a standing accusation against him who is master and father to the child.

    Men do not love those who remind them of their sins—unless they have a mind to repent—and the mulatto child’s face is a standing accusation against him who is master and father to the child. What is still worse, perhaps, such a child is a constant offense to the wife.

  • The Future of the Colored Race

    The Future of the Colored Race North American Review Boston, Massachusetts Number 142 (May 1886) pages 437-440 Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) It is quite impossible, at this early date, to say with any decided emphasis what the future of the colored people will be. Speculations of that kind, thus far, have only reflected the mental bias…

  • PHIL 539: Critical Philosophy of Race

    PHIL 539: Critical Philosophy of Race Pennsylvania State University Summer 2012 The study of philosophical issues raised by racism and by the concept of race and other related concepts. This course provides an intensive examination of a major area of philosophical research: the philosophical examination of racism and of our thinking about race. It will…

  • Vision Turns to Division

    The election of Barack Obama has had surprisingly little impact on a nation fixated on race

  • Miscegenation

    Miscegenation Banner-Watchman, Athens, Georgia 1884-02-26 page 2, column 1 Source: Athens Historic Newspapers Archive (Digital Library of Georgia as part of Georgia HomePLACE) The New York World, in a recent article upon the marriage of Fred Douglass [to Helen Pits], has this to say upon the subject of miscegenation: “What offense does a lady commit…

  • The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives

    The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives Beacon Press 2012-08-21 288 pages 6″ x 9″ Cloth ISBN: 978-080706912-7 Devon W. Carbado, Professor of Law and African American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Donald Weise, Independent Scholar in African American history The first book about the runaway slave phenomenon written by fugitive slaves themselves.…

  • A Home Elsewhere: Reading African American Classics in the Age of Obama

    A Home Elsewhere: Reading African American Classics in the Age of Obama Harvard University Press May 2010 192 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches no illustrations Hardcover ISBN: 9780674050969 Robert B. Stepto, Professor of English, African American Studies, and American Studies Yale University In this series of interlocking essays, which had their start as lectures inspired…

  • Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity

    Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity Duke University Press 2012 400 pages 71 photographs Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5085-9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5067-5 Edited by: Maurice O. Wallace, Associate Professor of English and African & African American Studies Duke University Shawn Michelle Smith, Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies School of…