Modern and Postmodern Narratives of Race, Gender, and Identity
Modern and Postmodern Narratives of Race, Gender, and Identity

Author: Yoriko Ishida

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9781433108754

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The alleged affair between Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, and his slave Sally Hemings was proven as a fact by DNA analysis in 1998. While many historians continue to deny the affair, some have accepted the love affair between Jefferson and Hemings as fact, and many historical omissions regarding the affair have been revised since the 1998 DNA results. However, the identity and the dignity of the Hemings family, which were previously ignored in the official history, have been restored not only by science but also by literature. This book examines how African American writers have depicted the issues of race, gender, and identity for Sally Hemings and her descendants in modern and postmodern novels.

History of the de Graffenried Family from 1191 A. D. to 1925
History of the de Graffenried Family from 1191 A. D. to 1925

Author: Thomas Pritchett de Graffenried

Publisher:

Published: 1925

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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"Since 1191, Uolricus and Cuno de Gravinsried are the first mentioned of record, both by given and surname. The village of Grafenried, near Bern, is the first ancestral home of the family in Switzerland, and as early as the thirteenth century they were most numerous in that locality."--Page 18. Christopher (VI) deGraffenried was the first of the family to settle permanently in America. He married Barbara Tempest (née Needham) in 1714 at Charleston, South Carolina. They settled permanently in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Christopher died in 1742. Descendants lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Kansas and elsewhere.