Tag: John Powell

  • By the start of the 20th century, the University of Virginia had become a center of an emerging new strain of racism – eugenics – that would create and perpetuate myths created under the guise of scientific research, but ultimately was intended to demonstrate white racial superiority.

  • Good riddance to RU’s Powell Hall The Roanoke Times Roanoke, Virginia 2010-09-21 Christina Nuckols, Editorial Page Editor One can, if optimistically predisposed to believe in the inherent honesty and good-natured character of people, accept the story of why Radford University’s arts and music building still bore the name of John Powell until last week. One…

  • Lectures delivered by John Powell under the auspices of the lectureship in Music The Rice Institute Pamphlet Volume 10, Number 3 (July 1923) pages 107-163 Lectures delivered by John Powell Palace Theatre of Houston 1923-04-05 through 1923-04-06 John Powell Table of Contents I. Music and the Individual (20 pages) II. Music and the Nation (38…

  • If the present ratio were to remain permanent, the inevitable product of the melting pot would be approximately an octoroon. It should not be necessary to stress the significance of this point. We know that under Mendelian law the African strain is hereditarily predominant. In other words, one drop of negro (sic) blood makes the…

  • John Powell: His Racial and Cultural Ideologies Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology Online Volume 5, Issue 1 (2006) 14 pages David Z. Kushner, Professor Emeritus of Musicology/Music History University of Florida The opening of the first movement of the Symphony in A Major “Virginia Symphony” (Allegro non troppo ma con brio). QuickTime-format, WindowsMedia-format Following John…

  • The campaign for racial purity and the erosion of paternalism in Virginia, 1922-1930: “nominally white, biologically mixed, and legally Negro”. The Journal of Southern History Volume 68, Number 1 (February 2002) pages 65-106 J. Douglas Smith In September 1922 John Powell, a Richmond native and world-renowned pianist and composer, and Earnest Sevier Cox, a self-proclaimed…

  • Miscegenation, Eugenics, and Racism: Historical Footnotes to Loving v. Virginia University of California, Davis Law Review Volume 21, Number 2 (1988) pages 421-452 Paul A. Lombardo, Bobby Lee Cook Professor of Law Georgia State University This Essay explores private correspondence contained in a restricted manuscript collection along with contemporary news accounts and government documents to…