Tag: Reviews in American History

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

  • The Pain of Passing Reviews in American History Volume 44, Number 2, June 2016 pages 264-269 DOI: 10.1353/rah.2016.0028 Renee Romano, Professor of History, Africana Studies, and Comparative American Studies Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio Allyson Hobbs. A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. 382 pp. Figures,…

  • Marriage, Melanin, and American Racialism Reviews in American History Volume 41, Number 2, June 2013 pages 282-291 DOI: 10.1353/rah.2013.0048 Heidi Ardizzone, Assistant Professor of American Studies St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri Adele Logan Alexander, Parallel Worlds: The Remarkable Gibbs-Hunts and the Enduring (In)significance of Melanin. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010. 375 pages. Photographs,…

  • Jean Toomer and the History of Passing Reviews in American History Volume 41, Number 1, March 2013 pages 113-121 DOI: 10.1353/rah.2013.0016 Matthew Pratt Guterl, Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies Brown University Jean Toomer. Cane. With a new afterword by Rudolph B. Byrd, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: W. W. Norton, 2011.…