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Tag: The Journal of Negro History

  • Beginnings of Miscegenation of Whites and Blacks

    Beginnings of Miscegenation of Whites and Blacks The Journal of Negro History Volume 3, Number 4 (October 1918) pages 336-453 Carter G. Woodson, Founder Although science has uprooted the theory, a number of writers are loath to give up the contention that the white race is superior to others, as it is still hoped that…

  • To the whites, all Africans who were not of pure blood were gens de couleur…

    To the whites, all Africans who were not of pure blood were gens de couleur [people of color]. Among themselves, however, there were jealous and fiercely-guarded distinctions: “griffes, briques, mulattoes, quadroons, octoroons, each term meaning one degree’s further transfiguration toward the Caucasian standard of physical perfection.”1 Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “People of Color in Lousiana: Part I,”…

  • People of Color in Lousiana: Part I

    The title of a possible discussion of the Negro in Louisiana presents difficulties, for there is no such word as Negro permissible in speaking of this State. The history of the State is filled with attempts to define, sometimes at the point of the sword, oftenest in civil or criminal courts, the meaning of the…

  • Negro History, Part X: Miscegenation in America

    Negro History, Part X: Miscegenation in America Ebony Magazine October 1962 pages 94-104 (Digitized by Google) Lerone Bennett, Jr., Executive Editor The material in this chapter on miscegenation during the slavery period is based largely on James Hugo Johnston’s doctorial dissertation at the University of Chicago, Race Relations in Virginia and Miscegenation in the South,…