Tag: Gary Nash

  • In the third year of his presidency, Thomas Jefferson pleaded “to let our settlements and theirs [Indians] meet and blend together, to intermix, and become one people.” Six years later, just before returning to Monticello, Jefferson promised a group of western Indian chiefs, “you will unite yourselves with us,… and we shall all be Americans;…

  • We Need to Learn More About Our Colorful Past The New York Times 2004-07-31 Maurice A. Barboza, Founder Black Patriots Foundation Gary B. Nash, Professor Emeritus of History University of California, Los Angeles Back in 1925, American society tended not to advise young white males about the consequences of intimacy with the black maid. Even…

  • The Hidden History of Mestizo America The Journal of American History Volume 82, Number 3 (December, 1995) pages 941-964 5 illustrations Gary B. Nash, Professor Emeritus of History University of California, Los Angeles This essay was delivered as the presidential address at the national meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Washington, March 31,…

  • Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Review: Spickard] American Studies Volume 50, No. 1/2: Spring/Summer 2009 pages 125-127 Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism. Jared Sexton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2008. One of the major developments in ethnic studies over…

  • …Between 1913 and 1948–the latter date the abrogation of California’s law prohibiting racial intermarriage–80 percent of the Asian Indian men in California married Hispanic women.  To this day, several thousand of the children and grandchildren of these Punjabi-Hispanic marriages, which involved vows between Muslims and Catholics or Hindus and Catholics, can be found in Imperial…

  • 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…