Tag: North Carolina

  • A 400 Year Old History of Tri-Racial People: In Real Life Mixed Race Radio 2013-01-16, 17:00Z (12:00 EST) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director Chowan Discovery Group Marvin T. Jones is the Executive Director of the Chowan Discovery Group (CDG).  The mission of the CDG is to research, document, preserve and present…

  • Afro-Mexicans and Winston-Salem Photo Gallery Winston-Salem Journal Winston-Salem, North Carolina November 2007 Ted Richardson, Photographer Irma Gonzales Alvarado prays before a shrine to the Virgin of Guadalupe at her Winston-Salem home. She invited several neighbors to her home on the last night of La Cuarentena, a 40-night observance of the Virgin leading up to Dec.…

  • Blacks may be second class, but they can’t make them leave: Mexican racial formation and immigrant status in Winston-Salem Latino Studies Volume 10, Issue 1 (Spring/Summer 2012) pages 60-80 DOI: 10.1057/lst.2012.7 Jennifer A. Jones, SBS Diversity Post Doctoral Fellow Ohio State University, Columbus In this article, I investigate how race is produced by looking at…

  • Biracial identity: trying to fit in The Daily Tar Heel University of North Carolina 2012-10-22 Averi Harper, Columnist You’re Hispanic, right? No? Well, are you Middle Eastern? No? Then what are you? Oh, that’s so interesting! The above is just a sample of the prodding questions that sometimes come with biracial or multiracial identity. Biracial…

  • Three Winton Triangle Presentations at Greensboro conference. Chowan Discovery Group 2012-10-15 Marvin T. Jones The Chowan Discovery presentations about the Winton Triangle, its Civil War history and Chowan Discovery historical markers attracted many enthusiastic attendees at the annual conference of the Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society (AAGHS) in Greensboro. Included in the audiences were history…

  • Law and the Boundaries of Place and Race in Interracial Marriage: Interstate Comity, Racial Identity, and Miscegenation Laws in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, 1860s-1960s Akron Law Review Volume 32, Number 3 (1999) pages 557-575 Peter Wallenstein, Professor of History Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University In North Carolina in 1869, Wesley Hairston, a…

  • Beyond Black and White: Color and Mortality in Post Reconstruction Era North Carolina Explorations in Economic History Published online: 2012-07-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2012.06.002 Tiffany L. Green, Postdoctoral Fellow Health Disparities Research Scholars Training Program Center for Demography and Ecology University of Wisconsin, Madison Tod G. Hamilton, Research Fellow Department of Society, Human Development, and Health School…

  • Honoring Robert Lee Vann The State of Things WUNC 91.5, North Carolina Public Radio 2012-07-10 Frank Stasio, Host Sarah Edwards, Co-Host Guests Marvin Jones Chowan Discovery Group Cash Michaels, Editor, Chief Reporter/Photographer and Columnist The Carolinian North Carolina native Robert Lee Vann was a pioneer of journalism during his lifetime. He served as editor of…

  • Amy Locklear Hertel to Head American Indian Center at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Indian Country Today 2012-04-29 Tanya Lee Amy Locklear Hertel, newly-selected director of the American Indian Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was admonished by her grandmother to pursue her education. “Grandmother told me to get…

  • How Scuffletown Became Indian Country: Political Change and Transformations in Indian identity in Robeson County, North Carolina, 1865-1956 University of Washington 2008 267 pages Publication Number: AAT 3328369 ISBN: 9780549817246 Anna Bailey A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy According to census reports, there were no…