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Tri-Racial Enculturation: Red, White, And Black In The South, Rhett S. Jones
Tri-Racial Enculturation: Red, White, And Black In The South, Rhett S. Jones
Trotter Review
In an essay published in The Western Journal of Black Studies (1977) I pointed out that while for many years the study of relations between blacks and Native Americans had been neglected by historians and other scholars, recent studies had acknowledged that red folk and black often influenced one another. What I did not point out was that, for the United States. studies of tri-racial contact were almost nonexistent. Things were quite different in studies of Latin America where the realities of social and sexual contact among all three races were reflected not only in works by historians but in …
Black New England: Building On The Work Of Lorenzo Johnston Greene, Rhett S. Jones
Black New England: Building On The Work Of Lorenzo Johnston Greene, Rhett S. Jones
Trotter Review
With the death this spring of Dr. Lorenzo J. Greene, Professor Emeritus of History at Lincoln University (Missouri), historians of blacks in New England have lost one of their pioneers, a man who continued to support the scholarly study of Afro-Americans in the region throughout his life. Dr. Greene, who was 89 at his death, was best known as the author of The Negro in Colonial New England, 1620-1776 (1942). Benjamin Quarles wrote of the book, “To it we are indebted for three things, if not more—for filling a gap in the literature of American colonial history, for portraying a …