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  • The Hybrid in Hawaii as a Marginal Man

    The Hybrid in Hawaii as a Marginal Man American Journal of Sociology Volume 39, Number 4 (January 1934) pages 459-468 William C. Smith William Jewell College Several factors conspire to make the hybrid in Hawaii occupy a position markedly different from that of the mixed-blood in other areas. The relative absence of race prejudice on the…

  • Beyond Liverpool, 1957: Travel, diaspora, and migration in Jamal Mahjoub’s The Drift Latitudes

    Beyond Liverpool, 1957: Travel, diaspora, and migration in Jamal Mahjoub’s The Drift Latitudes The Journal of Commonwealth Literature Volume 46, Number 3 (September 2011) pages 493-511 DOI: 10.1177/0021989411409813 Jopi Nyman, Professor University of Eastern Finland, Finland This essay discusses the novel The Drift Latitudes (2006) by the Anglo-Sudanese author Jamal Mahjoub. By telling the stories…

  • The Drift Latitudes

    The Drift Latitudes Chatto & Windus 2006-02-02 320 pages ISBN-13: 978-0701178222 Jamal Mahjoub Liverpool, 1958, and German refugee and inventor Ernst Frager is in search of a sense of belonging. What he finds is an unusual nightclub on the Merseyside docks, and Miranda: hat-check girl, aspiring jazz singer and daughter of West Indian immigrants. Their…

  • German science and black racism—roots of the Nazi Holocaust

    German science and black racism—roots of the Nazi Holocaust The FASEB Journal (The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) Volume 22, Number 2 (2008) pages 332-337 DOI: 10.1096/fj.08-0202ufm François Haas, Associate Professor Department of Rehabilitation Medicine New York University The Nazi’s cornerstone precept of “racial hygiene” gave birth to their policy…

  • Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-first Century

    Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-first Century School for Advanced Research Press 2011 280 pages 1 map, 3 tables, 6 appendices, notes, references, index 7 x 10 Circe Dawn Sturm, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Texas, Austin In Becoming Indian, author Circe Sturm examines Cherokee identity politics and the phenomenon…

  • Experiences and Processes Affecting Racial Identity Development: Preliminary Results From the Biracial Sibling Project

    Experiences and Processes Affecting Racial Identity Development: Preliminary Results From the Biracial Sibling Project Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology (formerly Cultural Diversity and Mental Health) Volume 4, Issue 3, August 1998 Pages 237-247 DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.4.3.237 Maria P. P. Root, Ph.D. Examined what drives the process of racial identity development in general for persons of…

  • Lone mothers of mixed racial and ethnic children in Britain: Comparing experiences of social attitudes and support in the 1960s and 2000s

    Lone mothers of mixed racial and ethnic children in Britain: Comparing experiences of social attitudes and support in the 1960s and 2000s Women’s Studies International Forum Volume 34, Issue 6, November-December 2011 Pages 530-538 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2011.06.007 Rosalind Edwards, Professor of Sociology University of Southampton Chamion Cabellero, Senior Research Fellow Social Capital Research Group London South…

  • Blood Politics: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma

    Circe Sturm takes a bold and original approach to one of the most highly charged and important issues in the United States today: race and national identity. Focusing on the Oklahoma Cherokee, she examines how Cherokee identity is socially and politically constructed, and how that process is embedded in ideas of blood, color, and race.

  • Miscegenation in South Africa

    Miscegenation in South Africa Cahiers d’études africaines Volume 1, Number 4 (1960) pages 68-84 DOI: 10.3406/cea.1960.3680 Pierre L. Van Den Berghe University of Natal A number of related factors make the Union of South Africa an ideal object of investigation in the field of miscegenation. The exceptionally virulent brand of racism that has developed in…

  • Beyond poverty: the Negro and the Mulatto in Brazil

    Beyond poverty: the Negro and the Mulatto in Brazil Journal de la Société des Américanistes Volume 58 (1969) pages 121-137 DOI: 10.3406/jsa.1969.2100 Florestan Fernandes This paper was first presented, in a condensed version, at the seminars on “Minorities in Latin America and the United States”, (The College of the Finger Lakes, Corning, New York, December…