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How Women's Studies Erased Black Women

The founders of Women’s Studies were overwhelmingly white, and focused on the experiences of white, heterosexual women.
by Erin Blakemore, V. P. Franklin via JSTOR Daily on February 11, 2017
George Washington with numbers pointing to proportions of his head for measurement.

George Washington: A Descendant of Odin?

Yvonne Seale on a bizarre and fanciful piece of genealogical scholarship and what it tells us about identity in late 19th-century America.
by Yvonne Seale via The Public Domain Review on February 8, 2017

The Captive Aliens Who Remain Our Shame

On the origins of racial exclusion in the society that would become the United States of America.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on January 19, 2017

A Tale of Racial Passing and the U.S.-Mexico Border

The border blurred the stark dividing line between white and black in America, something that Americans like William Ellis used to their advantage.
by Jonathan Blitzer via The New Yorker on July 20, 2016

A DNA Test Won’t Explain Elizabeth Warren’s Ancestry

You’re not 28 percent Finnish, either.
by Matt Miller via Slate on June 29, 2016
Kids and adults free dancing.

Camille A. Brown: A Visual History of Social Dance in 25 Moves

Why do we dance? African-American social dances started as a way for enslaved Africans to keep cultural traditions alive and retain a sense of inner freedom.
by Camille A. Brown via TED on June 1, 2016

On Memorial Day, Weaponizing the American Flag

As a young woman, civil rights pioneer Pauli Murray discovered that the flag could be used as a symbol of defiance.
by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via Scalawag on May 30, 2016
East L.A. shopkeeper and Christian Syrian immigrant Mansur Nahra (seated), serving as best man at the 1929 wedding of his employee, Isidoro.

Middle East Expert Finds Syrian Americans Comprise a Rich Multiplicity of Identities

On the vibrant history of LA’s thriving Syrian American community and its unexpected links with Latin America.
by Susan Bell via USC Dornsife on February 18, 2016

Who Was the Most Prolific Black Filmmaker of the Silent Film Era?

Who was the most prolific African American filmmaker of the silent film era? That’s a question that has us asking, “were there any?”
by Stephanie Weber via Atlas Obscura on February 16, 2016

Race and the American Creed

Recovering black radicalism.
by Aziz Rana via n+1 on December 7, 2015

Measuring Race and Ethnicity Across the Decades: 1790–2010

U.S. Census classifications through the centuries reflect broad changes in the way Americans understand race and ethnicity.
via United States Census Bureau on September 4, 2015
A Black man in a hoodie.

The Hoodie and the Hijab

Arabness, Blackness, and the figure of terror.
by Leah Mirakhor via Los Angeles Review of Books on June 6, 2015
Drawing of a woman standing with blurred people behind her and computer text boxes pointing to her face.

Cracking the Code

It's impossible for most black Americans to construct full family trees, but genetic testing can provide some clues.
by Jesmyn Ward via The New Yorker on May 14, 2015

What Was Gay?

In a more accepting world, homosexual men can leave their campy, cruising past, but the price of equality shouldn't be conformity.
by J. Bryan Lowder via Slate on May 12, 2015
Chart of the names given to generations at different times.

Your Generational Identity Is a Lie

You are not Gen X. You are not a Millennial. Unless you are a Baby Boomer, you are nothing.
by Philip Bump via Washington Post on April 1, 2015
A bearded man dressed as a lumberjack with an axe resting on his shoulder.

Lumbersexuality and Its Discontents

One hundred years ago, a crisis in urban masculinity created the lumberjack aesthetic. Now it's making a comeback.
by Willa Brown via The Atlantic on December 10, 2014
Portrait of W.E.B. Du Bois.

Who Was W.E.B. Du Bois?

A review of "Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity," by Kwame Anthony Appiah.
by Nicholas Lemann via New York Review of Books on September 24, 2014
Pearl Curran

Ghostwriter and Ghost: The Strange Case of Pearl Curran & Patience Worth

In early 20th-century St. Louis, Pearl Curran claimed to have conjured a long-dead New England Puritan named Patience Worth through a Ouija board.
by Ed Simon via The Public Domain Review on September 17, 2014
Iron Eyes Cody meets Jimmy Carter, who is wearing a Native American headdress

Among the Tribe of the Wannabes

A closer look at non-Native Americans that appropriate, fabricate, and invent Native identities for themselves.
by Russell Cobb via This Land Press on August 26, 2014
Jerri Cobb with a space capsule.

The Case for Female Astronauts: Reproducing Americans in the Final Frontier

Imagining a future that separates women from their biological identity seems so “drastic” as to be unimaginable—in 1962 and today.
by Lisa Ruth Rand via The Appendix on July 15, 2014

The Real Story of Linda Taylor, America’s Original Welfare Queen

In the 1970s, Ronald Reagan villainized a Chicago woman for bilking the government. Her other sins were far worse.
by Josh Levin via Slate on December 19, 2013

Black Beethoven and the Racial Politics of Music History

How the attempt to claim Beethoven as Black actually recycles racist tropes.
by Nicholas T. Rinehart via Transition on November 13, 2013

Food in America and American Foodways

Rachel Herrmann asks whether there’s such a thing as “American food.”
by Rachel B. Herrmann via The Junto on July 3, 2013
Painting representing the Great Migration: African Americans going through gates to Chicago, New York, and St. Louis.

The Changing Definition of African-American

How the great influx of people from Africa and the Caribbean since 1965 is challenging what it means to be African-American.
by Ira Berlin via Smithsonian on February 1, 2010

The Hispanic Challenge

The persistent inflow of Hispanic immigrants threatens to divide the US into two peoples, two cultures, and two languages.
by Samuel P. Huntington via Foreign Policy on October 28, 2009
Cover of "Making Whiteness," featuring a Black man in front of a billboard of larger-than-life white faces.
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Making Whiteness

How a historian's family history informed her professional quest to unpack the stories white Southerners told about themselves.
by In Black America via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on September 1, 1998
James Baldwin

The Making and Unmaking of James Baldwin

On the private and public lives of the author of “The Fire Next Time” and “Giovanni’s Room.”
by Hilton Als via The New Yorker on February 9, 1998

Lady Soul Singing it Like It Is

In 1968, Time Magazine searched for the elusive definition of "soul."
via TIME on June 28, 1968
James Baldwin

‘I Can’t Accept Western Values Because They Don’t Accept Me’

Revolution, the civil rights movement, and African-American identity.
by James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren via Literary Hub on April 27, 1964
Still from “The Rejected,” a 1961 documentary about homosexuals. Hal Call (at right), president of the Mattachine Society and Don Lucas, Mattachine’s executive secretary. Credit: San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive
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The Homosexual in Our Society

This 1958 interview is the earliest known radio recording to overtly discuss homosexuality.
by Blanche M. Baker, KPFA, Elsa Knight Thompson, Harold Leland Call, Leah Gailey via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on November 24, 1958
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