Tag: William and Mary Quarterly

  • The Pleasures of Taxonomy: Casta Paintings, Classification, and Colonialism The William and Mary Quarterly Volume 73, Number 3, July 2016, 3rd series pages 427-466 Rebecca Earle, Professor School of Comparative American Studies University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom A new model for thinking about the socioracial categories depicted in casta paintings (remarkable eighteenth-century Spanish American…

  • “The Christened Mulatresses”: Euro-African Families in a Slave-Trading Town The William and Mary Quarterly Volume 70, Number 2, April 2013 pages 371-398 DOI: 10.5309/willmaryquar.70.2.0371 Pernille Ipsen, Assistant Professor Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Department of History University of Wisconsin, Madison “MULATRESSE Lene”—or Lene Kühberg, as she is also called in the Danish sources—grew up…

  • Kodiak Kreol: Communities of Empire in Early Russian America [Patricia Cleary Review] William and Mary Quarterly Third Series, Volume 69, Number 3, July 2012 pages 665-667 DOI: 10.5309/willmaryquar.69.3.0665 Kodiak Kreol: Communities of Empire in Early Russian America. By Gwenn A. Miller. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2010. 242 pages. Patricia Cleary, Professor of History California…

  • American Chiaroscuro: The Status and Definition of Mulattoes in the British Colonies The William and Mary Quarterly Third Series, Volume 19, Number 2 (April, 1962) pages 183-200 Winthrop D. Jordan (1931-2007) The word mulatto is not frequently used in the United States. Americans generally reserve it for biological contexts, because for social purposes a mulatto…

  • The Monticello Mystery-Case Continued William and Mary Quarterly Volume LVIII, Number 4 (October 2001) Reviews of Books Alexander O. Boulton, Professor of History Stevenson University (formerly Villa Julie College) The Jefferson-Hemings Myth: An American Travesty. Edited by Eyler Robert Coates, Sr. (Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, 2001. Pp. 207.) A President in the Family:…

  • Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina (Review) William and Mary Quarterly Volume LX, Number 1 (January 2003) Reviews of Books Richard Godbeer, Professor of History University of Miami Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina. By Kirsten Fischer. (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 265.)…