The T'Aint of Taint: Memory and the Denial of Mixed Race in the U.S.

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Noble Maillard
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Race ◽  
The U.S

Epilogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 215-226
Author(s):  
Jasmine Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
White Supremacy ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Images ◽  
Female Figure ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
The U.S

The epilogue reflects on how popular media images of the U.S. mulatta and Brazilian mulata evoke anxieties about blackness in a hemispheric context. Connecting the analysis of the media texts of the 2000s with contemporary political and cultural moments, the epilogue shows how the racial gendered logics of the mixed-race female figure aligns with renewed wave of nationalism, white supremacy, and misogyny in a trans-American context. The epilogue calls for greater black solidarities across the Americas.

scholarly journals “A Black Sister to Massachusetts”: Latin America and the Fugitive Democratic Ethos of Frederick Douglass

2015 ◽  
Vol 109 (4) ◽  
pp. 690-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
JULIET HOOKER
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
The United States ◽  
Frederick Douglass ◽  
Comparative Political Theory ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The U.S

The aim of this article is to read Frederick Douglass as a theorist of democracy. It explores the hemispheric dimensions of Douglass' political thought, especially in relation to multiracial democracy. Douglass is generally viewed as an African-American thinker primarily concerned with U.S. politics, and the transnational scope of his ideas is rarely acknowledged. Instead, this article traces the connections between Douglass’ Caribbean interventions and his arguments about racial politics in the United States. It argues that Douglass not only found exemplars of black self-government and multiracial democracy in the Caribbean and Central America, he also sought to incorporate black and mixed-race Latin Americans in order to reshape the contours of the U.S. polity and challenge white supremacy. Viewed though a hemispheric lens Douglass is revealed as a radically democratic thinker whose ideas can be utilized to sketch a fugitive democratic ethos that contains important resources for contemporary democratic theory and comparative political theory.

Transpacific Adoption

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susie Woo
Keyword(s):  
Korean War ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
The United States ◽  
Korean Children ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Korean Adoptees ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
American Memory ◽  
The U.S

As one of America’s forgotten wars, the Korean War remains in the shadows of American memory. This chapter recounts one of the profound social and cultural outcomes of the war--Korean transnational adoptions. It traces the work of U.S. missionaries that established initial points of contact between average Americans and Korean children-in-need during and after the war, sentimental and material connections that set the stage for transnational adoptions. In the 1950s, missionary appeals to rescue Korean children and mixed-race GI babies incited Americans to push for the legal adoption of children from Korea, pressure that ultimately led both the U.S. and South Korean governments to establish permanent adoption legislation. To date, over 100,000 Korean adoptees have entered the United States. This essay investigates the origins of Korean transnational adoptions and the racial legacies left in its wake on both sides of the Pacific.

“Most Fitting Companions”: Making Mixed-Race Bodies Visible in Antebellum Public Spaces

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-165
Author(s):  
Lisa Merrill
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Crystal Palace ◽  
Social Scripts ◽  
Class Privilege ◽  
The U.S

In the years leading up to the U.S. Civil War, free and fugitive persons of color were aware of the need to frame how they were seen in their everyday lives as part of an arsenal of rhetorical strategies to attract audiences to the abolitionist cause. In this article, I examine three spatial contexts that nineteenth-century mixed-race persons navigated for abolitionist ends in which their hybrid bodies were featured as an aspect of their public performances. These locations—Britain's imperially sponsored Crystal Palace, a Brooklyn church pulpit, and the dramatic reader's lectern—were not merely static places but were spaces animated and made meaningful by the interactions performed therein. Each framed a particular ocular and locational politics and strategically imbued some degree of social class privilege on the hybrid persons following its social scripts. But in so doing, each setting also reinforced colorism and contributed to notions of the supremacy of “whiteness” even while it furthered an antislavery agenda.

Historical Introduction

1977 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 2-5
Author(s):  
R. D. Heidenreich
Keyword(s):  
Electron Emission ◽  
Secondary Electron ◽  
Secondary Electron Emission ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Secondary Emission ◽  
Wave Nature ◽  
Nobel Prize In Physics ◽  
Primary Electrons ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Mutual Agreement

This program has been organized by the EMSA to commensurate the 50th anniversary of the experimental verification of the wave nature of the electron. Davisson and Germer in the U.S. and Thomson and Reid in Britian accomplished this at about the same time. Their findings were published in Nature in 1927 by mutual agreement since their independent efforts had led to the same conclusion at about the same time. In 1937 Davisson and Thomson shared the Nobel Prize in physics for demonstrating the wave nature of the electron deduced in 1924 by Louis de Broglie.The Davisson experiments (1921-1927) were concerned with the angular distribution of secondary electron emission from nickel surfaces produced by 150 volt primary electrons. The motivation was the effect of secondary emission on the characteristics of vacuum tubes but significant deviations from the results expected for a corpuscular electron led to a diffraction interpretation suggested by Elasser in 1925.

Variations in Surface Textures of Quartz Sand using Electron Microscopy

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 494-495
Author(s):  
Eugene J. Amaral
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Glass Industry ◽  
Glass Slide ◽  
Distilled Water ◽  
Early Paleozoic ◽  
Secondary Effects ◽  
Surface Textures ◽  
High Silica ◽  
Sand Deposit ◽  
The U.S

Examination of sand grain surfaces from early Paleozoic sandstones by electron microscopy reveals a variety of secondary effects caused by rock-forming processes after final deposition of the sand. Detailed studies were conducted on both coarse (≥0.71mm) and fine (=0.25mm) fractions of St. Peter Sandstone, a widespread sand deposit underlying much of the U.S. Central Interior and used in the glass industry because of its remarkably high silica purity.The very friable sandstone was disaggregated and sieved to obtain the two size fractions, and then cleaned by boiling in HCl to remove any iron impurities and rinsed in distilled water. The sand grains were then partially embedded by sprinkling them onto a glass slide coated with a thin tacky layer of latex. Direct platinum shadowed carbon replicas were made of the exposed sand grain surfaces, and were separated by dissolution of the silica in HF acid.

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