Author: Steven

  • The Melungeons: A Mixed-Blood Strain of the Southern Appalachians Geographical Review Volume 41, Number 2 (April, 1951) pages 256-271 Edward T. Price, Professor Emeritus of Geography University of Oregon In the native vocabulary of East Tennessee and adjacent parts of neighboring states the word “Melungeon” is widely used. To some people it is only a…

  • The Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions of the Word Race Ethnicities Volume 10, Number 1 (March 2010) pages 127-140 DOI: 10.1177/1468796809354529 Michael Banton, Emeritus Professor of Sociology Univeristy of Bristol The word race has been used both to classify humans and to account for differences between those assigned to the resulting classes or taxa. The two…

  • A belief in Eugenics was widespread in the early half of the last centenary and amongst its prominent believers were George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler. This iniquitous social philosophy supposed that Northern Europeans were superior in civilization to such races as Indians. Anglo Indians who were of mixed blood were considered, even…

  • Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic University Press of Florida 2009-07-05 176 pages 6 x 9 Cloth: ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3374-7, ISBN 10: 0-8130-3374-8 Paper: ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3675-5, ISBN 10: 0-8130-3675-5 Kimberly Eison Simmons, Associate Professor Anthropology & African American Studies University of South Carolina In Latin America and the Caribbean,…

  • In this article, I draw on the experiences of students who participated in the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Program in Spanish Language and Caribbean Studies, in Santiago, Dominican Republic, from 2000 to 2004, to situate the seemingly conflicting racial projects of the Dominican Republic and the United States.

  • As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity University of California Press January 1998 282 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780520210738 edited by William S. Penn, Professor of Creative Writing Michigan State University The thirteen contributors to As We Are Now invite readers to explore with them the untamed territory of race and mixblood identity…

  • Black, White, Light, and Bright: A Narrative of Creole Color Past Narratives/Narratives Past Graduate Conference Stanford University, Stanford, California 2001-02-16 through 2001-02-18 20 pages Christopher N. Matthews, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hofstra University Much of the world of life is made real through the symbolic application of color, shade, hue, and other features of visual…

  • The Ethics of Mixed Race Studies The University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee May 2009 215 pages Publication Number: AAT 3363443 ISBN: 9781109229738 Justin Ponder A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English The Ethics of Mixed Race Studies argues that Mixed Race Studies can challenge racial…

  • Natasha Trethewey talk Theater Coffman Memorial Union University of Minnesota 300 Washington Avenue SE Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 2011-04-27, 19:30-21:00 CDT (Local Time) Cost: Free Natasha Trethewey, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing Emory University Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey talks about her family’s experience on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and how it…

  • In general, the absence of options for multiethnic or multiracial individuals reveals part of the problem in using race as a risk assessment tool: it neglects to account for the extent of genetic variation that underlies the concept of race. Thus, not only does it disregard a number of people who do not fit neatly…