Category: Articles

  • This is Not a Biography: Pauline Johnson and the Process of National Identity Canadian Poetry Volume 48 (Spring/Summer 2001) Shelley Hulan, Associate Professor of English University of Waterloo, Canada Carole Gerson and Veronica Strong-Boag. Paddling Her Own Canoe: the Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson–Tekahionwake. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2000. 331 pp. Anyone…

  • 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 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 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 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 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…

  • 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 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…

  • Mexico’s black history is often ignored Los Angeles Times 2008-04-13 John L. Mitchell, Times Staff Writer In Mexico, the story of the country’s black population has been largely ignored in favor of an ideology that declares that all Mexicans are “mixed race.” But it’s the mixture of indigenous and European heritage that most Mexicans embrace;…

  • Being mixed: Who claims a biracial identity? Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 18, Number 1 (January 2012) pages 91-96 DOI: 10.1037/a0026845 Sarah S. M. Townsend, Visiting Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations and Postdoctoral Fellow Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Stephanie A. Fryberg, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Faculty in American…