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  • Ocular Anthropomorphisms: Eugenics and Primatology at the Threshold of the “Almost Human”

    Ocular Anthropomorphisms: Eugenics and Primatology at the Threshold of the “Almost Human” Social Text Volume 30, Number 3 112 pages 97-121 DOI: 10.1215/01642472-1597350 Megan H. Glick, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania From the moment Charles Darwin proposed Africa as the site of human origins, scientists and…

  • The Race to Progress: Census Taking and Nation Making in Brazil (1870–1920)

    The Race to Progress: Census Taking and Nation Making in Brazil (1870–1920) Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 89, Number 3 (2009) pages 435-470 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-2009-002 Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison From the mid-nineteenth century, central statistics agencies contributed to nation-state building through their dual mission of producing statistical description and…

  • The Importance of Mestizos and Mulatos as Bilingual Intermediaries in Sixteenth-Century New Spain

    The Importance of Mestizos and Mulatos as Bilingual Intermediaries in Sixteenth-Century New Spain Ethnohistory Volume 59, Number 4 (2012) pages 713-738 DOI: 10.1215/00141801-1642725 Robert C. Schwaller, Assistant Professor of History University of Kansas One of the most interesting aspects of sixteenth-century Mexico is the predominance of native languages, Nahuatl in particular, among all members of…

  • Roles of a Lifetime | Halle Berry

    Roles of a Lifetime | Halle Berry The New York Times Magazine 2012-10-20 Joyce Maynard It’s 10 in the morning, and already Halle Berry is being chased, though a better word for what’s going on might be “hunted.” Considering this, the Oscar-winning actress — one of the stars of the film “Cloud Atlas” — makes…

  • Biracial identity: trying to fit in

    Biracial identity: trying to fit in The Daily Tar Heel University of North Carolina 2012-10-22 Averi Harper, Columnist You’re Hispanic, right? No? Well, are you Middle Eastern? No? Then what are you? Oh, that’s so interesting! The above is just a sample of the prodding questions that sometimes come with biracial or multiracial identity. Biracial…

  • Glenn Robinson—Dedicated to Erasing Hate & Mixing Cultures

    Glenn Robinson—Dedicated to Erasing Hate & Mixing Cultures Mixed Race Radio Wednesday, 2012-10-24, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT, 17:00 BST) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Glenn Robinson, Creator/Owner Community Village Activist Glenn Robinson is an Irish, German, Dutch, English & Austrian American married to a Spanish & Indigenous Mexican American. They have two children and encourage…

  • Letter, W. A. Plecker to A. T. Shields. 9 May 1925. Typescript.

    Letter, W. A. Plecker to A. T. Shields. 9 May 1925. Typescript. Commonwealth of Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics Richmond, Virginia 1925-05-09 Source: Rockbridge County (Va.) Clerk’s Correspondence [Walter A. Plecker to A.T. Shields], 1912-1943. Local Government Records Collection, Rockbridge County Court Records. The Library of Virginia. 10-0477-003. In a letter to A.T. Shields, Walter…

  • The Choice

    The Choice The New Yorker 2012-10-22 The Editors The morning was cold and the sky was bright. Aretha Franklin wore a large and interesting hat. Yo-Yo Ma urged his frozen fingers to play the cello, and the Reverend Joseph E. Lowery, a civil-rights comrade of Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s, read a benediction that began with…

  • Remarkable Particulars: David Gamut and the Alchemy of Race in The Last of the Mohicans

    Remarkable Particulars: David Gamut and the Alchemy of Race in The Last of the Mohicans ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance Volume 58, Number 1, 2012 (No. 226 O.S.) pages 36-70 DOI: 10.1353/esq.2012.0010 Deidre Dallas Hall University of North Carolina, Greensboro David Gamut, the hapless psalmodist traveling with Major Heyward and his charges in…

  • From Paranoid to Reparative: Narratives of Cultural Identification in the Social Sciences

    From Paranoid to Reparative: Narratives of Cultural Identification in the Social Sciences Journal of Narrative Theory Volume 42, Number 2, Summer 2012 pages 193-211 DOI: 10.1353/jnt.2012.0007 Ashley Barnwell, Ashworth Lecturer in Sociology School of Social and Political Sciences University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia This article tries to draw out the complexity with which…