Tag: Sally Hemings

  • “The Illogic of American Racial Categories” Jefferson’s Blood: Thomas Jefferson, his slave & mistress Sally Hemings, their descendants, and the mysterious power of race. Frontline Public Broadcasting Service 2000 Paul R. Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara Excerpted from the chapter “The Illogic of American Racial Categories” in Racially Mixed People in…

  • Ties to Thomas Jefferson Unravel Family Mystery The Root 2014-01-26 Gayle Jessup White A woman seeks answers to decades-old questions about whether her family is related to the descendants of Thomas Jefferson. ore than 40 years ago, I learned of my family’s ancestral ties to Thomas Jefferson. It was a blood connection impossible to prove,…

  • Cousins, Across the Color Line The New York Times 2014-01-22 Tess Taylor EL CERRITO, Calif. — I learned about her through the comments section of an article in Publisher’s Weekly. I had recently published a book of poems crafted out of family stories, and it had been written up, along with a brief interview. In…

  • Of Racism and Remembrance Common-Place A Common Place, an Uncommon Voice Volume 1, Number 4, July 2001 Aaron Garrett, Associate Professor of Philosophy Boston University Is interest in the racism of past and hallowed philosophers and statesmen the obsession of a politically correct society gone amok? Or is it an acknowledgement of the ways in…

  • Laws and cultural norms militated against interracial sex in Virginia before the Civil War, and yet it was ubiquitous in cities, towns, and plantation communities throughout the state. In “Notorious in the Neighborhood,” Joshua Rothman examines the full spectrum of interracial sexual relationships under slavery—from Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the intertwined interracial families of…

  • Imagining Jefferson and Hemings in Paris TransAtlantica: American Studies Journal 1 | 2011 : Senses of the South / Référendums populaires 10 pages, 20 paragraphs Suzanne W. Jones, Professor of English University of Richmond In Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics, cultural critic bell hooks argues that “no one seems to know how to tell…

  • Jefferson’s Women The Humanist: A Magazine of Critical Inquiry and Social Concern March/April 2012 Cleo Fellers Kocol Thomas Jefferson was a private man who kept his personal life to himself, and yet today 18,000 of his letters exist in the public forum. In them, this farmer, architect, inventor, philosopher, politician, attorney, and “man of letters”—learned…

  • The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family [Review] The Journal of American History Volume 98, Issue 1 (2011) Pages 154-155 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jar004 Brenda E. Stevenson, Professor of History University of California, Los Angeles The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. By Annette Gordon-Reed. (New York: Norton, 2008. 802 pp. Cloth, ISBN 978-0-393-06477-3. Paper, ISBN 978-0-393-33776-1.)…

  • Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy University of Virginia Press 1998 305 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8139-1833-4 Annette Gordon-Reed, Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History; Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of History Harvard University When Annette Gordon-Reed’s groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas…

  • Passing for Black: Sermon Unitarian Church of Norfolk Norfolk, Virginia 2010-08-29 Dr. Walter Skip Earl OPENING WORDS Forty-seven years ago yesterday, on August 28, 1963, before a huge crowd of African and other Americans gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said: In a sense, we’ve come to our nation’s…