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  • Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)

    Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) University of Toronto Press June 2000 354 pages Paper ISBN: 9780802080240 Cloth ISBN: 9780802041623 Veronica Strong-Boag, Professor of Women’s History University of British Columbia Carole Gerson, Professor of English Royal Society of Canada at Simon Fraser University Winner of the Raymond Klibansky…

  • SOC 240 – People of Mixed Descent

    SOC 240 – People of Mixed Descent University of San Francisco 2011-2012 This course examines the experiences of mixed race populations (mulattos, mestizos, mixed blood Native Americans, and Eurasians) in comparative perspective. Using these experiences, as well as sociological theories (assimilation, third culture, marginality, and multiculturalism), we study how race is a social and political…

  • Virginia Bastardy Laws: A Burdensome Heritage

    Virginia Bastardy Laws: A Burdensome Heritage William and Mary Law Review Volume 9, Issue 2 (1967) Article 8 pages 402-429 Dominik Lasok, Professor of Law University of Exeter The theory that British settlers brought with them as much of the common Law of England as was appropriate to their circumstances in the New World, propounded by…

  • Making sense of ‘mixture’: states and the classification of ‘mixed’ people

    Making sense of ‘mixture’: states and the classification of ‘mixed’ people Ethnic and Racial Studies Avaiable online: 2012-02-01 9 pages DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.648650 Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent, United Kingdom Diversity and the growth of ‘mixed’ people In many Western multi-ethnic societies, and increasingly in non-Western societies, ‘super-diversity’ has emerged as a major…

  • The Founder Effect and Deleterious Genes

    The Founder Effect and Deleterious Genes American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 30, Issue 1 (January 1969) pages 55-60 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330300107 Frank B. Livingstone (1928-2005), Professor Emeritus of Biological Anthropology University of Michigan During the rapid growth of a population from a few founders, a single deleterious gene in a founder can attain an appreciable…

  • Tough lessons in CTC’s play about community destruction

    Tough lessons in CTC’s play about community destruction MPR News Minnesota Public Radio 2012-03-15 Nikki Tundel, Reporter St. Paul, Minn. — A century-old story of discrimination is the basis for a world premiere production opening Friday in Minneapolis. “Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy” is the Children’s Theatre Company’s adaption of the real-life events of…

  • The Republican primaries: Miscegenation and the South

    The Republican primaries: Miscegenation and the South The Economist 2012-03-13 OVER the weekend the Democratic-affiliated polling organisation Public Policy Polling (PPP) came out with a survey showing that 21% of likely Republican voters in Alabama, and 29% of likely Republican voters in Mississippi, think interracial marriage should be illegal. (It also found about half think…

  • Just Between Sisters: Gender, Race, Class, Sexuality, and Relationships of Mixed-Race Women and Girls (AMS) (HRJ) (GEN) (HUM) HUMN 7302

    Just Between Sisters: Gender, Race, Class, Sexuality, and Relationships of Mixed-Race Women and Girls (AMS) (HRJ) (GEN) (HUM) HUMN 7302 Southern Methodist University Fall 2012 Evelyn L. Parker, Associate Professor of Practical Theology In 1967 the US Supreme Court ruled state miscegenation laws unconstitutional. Instituted in 1691, the state laws sought to prevent sexual mixing…

  • Mix-d: Museum

    Mix-d: Museum Mix-d:™ 2012-02-27 Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow London South Bank University Peter Aspinall, Reader in Population Health at the Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent, UK The overall aim of the project is to explore the potential of translating knowledge through technology. Working together with Mix-d, the team will draw on…

  • Studs Terkel’s study of race in the US: 20 years on

    Studs Terkel’s study of race in the US: 20 years on The Guardian 2012-03-13 Gary Younge What have we learned in the two decades since the oral historian Studs Terkel published his classic book Race? In the introduction to a new edition, Gary Younge weighs up what has changed – and what hasn’t Cultures do…