Tag: North Carolina

  • The “One Drop Rule” revisited: Mary Ann McQueen of Montgomery County, North Carolina Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2010-12-21 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Many people, perhaps most, think of “race” as an objective reality. Historically, however, racial categorization has been unstable, contradictory, and arbitrary. Consider the…

  • “What Are You?”: Exploring Racial Categorization in “Nowhere Else on Earth” The Southern Literary Journal Volume 39, Number 1 (Fall, 2006) pages 33-53 Erica Abrams Locklear, Assistant Professor of Literature & Language University of North Carolina, Asheville In his introduction to the 1985 collection of essays entitled “Race,” Writing, and Difference, Henry Louis Gates rightfully…

  • Factors in the Microevolution of a Triracial Isolate American Journal of Human Genetics Volume 18, Number 1 (January 1966) pages 26-38 W. S. Pollitzer Department of Anatomy University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill R. M. Menegaz-Bock Genetics Training Committe University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill J. C. Herion Department of Medicine University of North Carolina,…

  • The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies [Review by Paul D. Escott] H-Net Reviews May, 2010 3 pages Paul D. Escott, Reynolds Professor of History Wake Forest University “Few histories,” writes Victoria Bynum, “are buried faster or deeper than those of political and social dissenters” (p. 148). The Long Shadow…

  • The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies University of North Carolina Press April 2010 240 pp. 6.125 x 9.25, 9 illus. 1 map, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3381-0 Large Print ISBN: 978-0-8078-7909-2 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos In The Long Shadow of the…

  • Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina (Review) William and Mary Quarterly Volume LX, Number 1 (January 2003) Reviews of Books Richard Godbeer, Professor of History University of Miami Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina. By Kirsten Fischer. (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 265.)…

  • With more than 50,000 enrolled members, North Carolina’s Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malinda Maynor Lowery, a Lumbee herself, describes how, between Reconstruction and the 1950s, the Lumbee crafted and maintained a distinct identity in an era defined by racial segregation in the South and paternalistic policies…

  • Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina Cornell University Press 2001 288 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 2 maps, 13 halftones, 1 line drawing Paper ISBN: 978-0-8014-8679-1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8014-3822-6 Kirsten Fischer, Associate Professor of History University of Minnesota Over the course of the eighteenth century, race came to seem as…

  • George Henry White: An Even Chance in the Race of Life Louisiana State University Press 2001 471 Trim: 6 x 9 cloth ISBN: 978-0-8071-2586-1 Benjamin R. Justesen Although he was one of the most important African American political leaders during the last decade of the nineteenth century, George Henry White has been one of the…

  • “Of Portuguese Origin”: Litigating Identity and Citizenship among the “Little Races” in Nineteenth-Century America Law and History Review 2007 Volume 25, Number 3 Ariela J. Gross, John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History University of Southern California The history of race in the nineteenth-century United States is often told as a…