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  • Complexities of Complexion

    This is a book about the endeavor of racial classification in the service of racism.

  • Review: Matthew McConaughey Rebels Against Rebels in ‘Free State of Jones’

    Review: Matthew McConaughey Rebels Against Rebels in ‘Free State of Jones’ The New York Times 2016-06-23 A. O. Scott, Film Critic Matthew McConaughey, left, and Jacob Lofland in “Free State of Jones.” Credit Murray Close/STX Entertainment “Free State of Jones” begins on the battlefield, with a flurry of the kind of immersive combat action that…

  • Racial Theories in Context (Second Edition)

    Racial Theories in Context (Second Edition) Cognella 2013 224 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60927-056-8 Edited by: Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine This book presents a critical framework for understanding how and why race matters — past, present, and future. The readings trace the historical…

  • Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History (review)

    Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History (review) Journal of Social History Volume 33, Number 3, Spring 2000 pages 753-755 DOI: 10.1353/jsh.2000.0037 Joshua D. Rothman, Associate Professor of History University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History. Edited by Martha Hodes (New York and London: New York University…

  • Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations: Mixed-Heritage Families in Brooklyn

    Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations: Mixed-Heritage Families in Brooklyn Brooklyn Historical Society Brooklyn, New York April 2011 Project Description Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations (CBBG) is a public programming series and oral history project about mixed-heritage families, race, ethnicity, culture, and identity, infused with historical perspective. CBBG is currently in the planning phase (April 2011 – March…

  • A Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century (review)

    A Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century (review) Journal of American Folklore Volume 124, Number 491 (Winter 2011) pages 120-121 E-ISSN: 1535-1882 Print ISSN: 0021-8715 Sharon Downey Varner Department of English University of South Alabama Hodes, Martha. A Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love,…

  • The Mercurial Nature and Abiding Power of Race: A Transnational Family Story

    The Mercurial Nature and Abiding Power of Race: A Transnational Family Story The American Historical Review Volume 108, Number 1 (February 2003) pages 84-118 Martha Hodes, Professor of History New York University There are many ways to expose the mercurial nature of racial classification. Scholars of U.S. history might note, for example, that the category…

  • Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History

    Since pre-colonial days, America has been both torn apart and united by love, sex, and marriage across racial boundaries. Whether motivated by violent conquest, economics, lust, or love, such unions have disturbed some of America’s most sacred beliefs and prejudices.

  • The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century

    The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century W. W. Norton & Company September 2007 384 pages 5.5 × 8.3 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-33029-8 Martha Hodes, Professor of History New York University Finalist for the Lincoln Book Prize. Award-winning historian Martha Hodes brings us into the extraordinary…

  • White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South

    This book is the first to explore the history of a powerful category of illicit sex in America’s past: liaisons between Southern white women and black men.