Category: Articles

  • Law and the Boundaries of Place and Race in Interracial Marriage: Interstate Comity, Racial Identity, and Miscegenation Laws in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, 1860s-1960s Akron Law Review Volume 32, Number 3 (1999) pages 557-575 Peter Wallenstein, Professor of History Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University In North Carolina in 1869, Wesley Hairston, a…

  • “Slave genes” myth must die Salon 2012-07-24 Amy Bass, Associate Professor of History The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York Michael Johnson links African-American sprinters to slavery, and revisits a particularly ugly pseudo-science In 1988, Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder (in)famously stated that the prowess of African-American football players could be traced to slavery,…

  • Effects of interracial crosses on cephalometric measurements American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 69, Issue 4 (April 1986) pages 465–472 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330690405 C. S. Chung Department of Public Health Sciences University of Hawaii, Manoa D. W. Runck Department of Public Health Sciences University of Hawaii, Manoa S. E. Bilben Department of Public Health Sciences University…

  • Group dominance perspectives contend that ideologies are central to the production and reproduction of racial oppression by their negative affect on attitudes toward antiracism initiatives. The Brazilian myth of racial democracy frequently is framed in this light, evoked as a racist ideology to explain an apparent lack of confrontation of racial inequality.

  • Fear of a Black President The Atlantic September 2012 Ta-Nehisi Coates As a candidate, Barack Obama said we needed to reckon with race and with America’s original sin, slavery. But as our first black president, he has avoided mention of race almost entirely. In having to be “twice as good” and “half as black,” Obama…

  • The cure for racism? More mixed blood Times-Standard Eureka, California 2012-08-23 Tim Martin McKinleyville, California I’ve always thought that most people, regardless of sex, color or faith, have a good heart. That’s why it saddened me to hear that radical hate groups and militias in America are growing in number. The demographic change reportedly has…

  • Whispering Grounds whispers thoughts of origins and nature Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph 2011-10-19 Amanda Halm Whispering Grounds, an exhibit of 13 charcoal drawings by artist Annie Lalande, is currently on display at the Bank National Financial Group Gallery, a space dedicated to visual arts in the Palais Montcalm. Incongruous lines and organic shapes sweep across paper to…

  • Dwanna L. Robertson: Indian Identity Still Controversial Indian Country Today Media Network 2012-08-21 Carol Berry If she’d planned to tackle some of the most contentious issues in Indian country, a Mvskoke (Creek) sociologist couldn’t have done a better job. Blood quantum, lineal descent, tribal membership, federal recognition, sovereignty—all came under the scrutiny of Dwanna L.…

  • Disentangling “Race” and Indigenous Status: The Role of Ethnicity Queen’s Law Journal Volume 33, Issue 2 (Spring 2008) pages 487 Sébastien Grammond, Dean and Associate Professor of Law University of Ottawa The notion of “race” is a social construction, discredited today by scientists as factually unsound. Individuals cannot be organized into discrete groups of people based solely…

  • John A. Macdonald wanted an ‘Aryan’ Canada The Ottawa Citizen 2012-08 Tim Stanley, Professor of History University of Ottawa In 1885, John A. Macdonald told the House of Commons that, if the Chinese were not excluded from Canada, “the Aryan character of the future of British America should be destroyed …” This was the precise…