Philosophical Culture

Is Genealogy Racist?

“Is genealogy racist?" I typed into the search engine. I had just received results from an ancestry DNA test. No surprises there --- 99.9% northwestern European genetic heritage. I immediately…

Diane KenastonApril 1, 2019

Slavery & Its Legacies

“Transcolonial kinship narratives seek to transform exploitative and dehumanizing social relations that characterized the European invasion of the Americas, and Eurocentric understandings of history, knowledge, power, citizenship, and humanity.” (Reyes-Santos,…

Alaí Reyes-SantosJanuary 19, 2017

Slavery & Its Legacies

No Account For It

While drafting the post Half-white Slaves of Aristocratic Masters at my blog, I acknowledged that Edward Ball, in his text, The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black Family in…

Roger David HardestyJune 19, 2016

Slavery & Its Legacies

It’s NOT All Greek to Me

Anthony Anaxagorou, a surprisingly erudite, young scholar, 'schools us' in a broader appreciation of what shapes belief structures we circulate blithely as cultural currency. Watch what he has to say on the evolution…

Roger David HardestyOctober 1, 2014

Philosophical Culture

Is Genealogy Racist?

Our Caribbean Kin

No Account For It

It’s NOT All Greek to Me