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  • Nationalism, Racism and Propaganda in Early Weimar Germany: Contradictions in the Campaign against the ‘Black Horror on the Rhine’

    Nationalism, Racism and Propaganda in Early Weimar Germany: Contradictions in the Campaign against the ‘Black Horror on the Rhine’ German History Volume 30, Issue 1 (March, 2012) pages 45-74 DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghr124 Julia Roos, Associate Professor of History Indiana University, Bloomington During the early 1920s, an average of 25,000 colonial soldiers from North Africa, Senegal and…

  • Use of Blood Groups in Human Classification

    Use of Blood Groups in Human Classification Science Magazine Volume 112, Number 2903 (1950-08-18) pages 187-196 DOI: 10.1126/science.112.2903.187 William C. Boyd Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts —Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him! Plato, The Republic In recent…

  • A Critical Discussion of the “Mulatto Hypothesis”

    A Critical Discussion of the “Mulatto Hypothesis” The Journal of Negro Education Volume 3, Number 3, The Physical and Mental Abilities of the American Negro (July, 1934) pages 389-402 Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963) The Two “Mulatto Hypotheses” What is the “mulatto hypothesis?” The phrase may be used to indicate a point of view concerning the…

  • American Chiaroscuro: The Status and Definition of Mulattoes in the British Colonies

    American Chiaroscuro: The Status and Definition of Mulattoes in the British Colonies The William and Mary Quarterly Third Series, Volume 19, Number 2 (April, 1962) pages 183-200 Winthrop D. Jordan (1931-2007) The word mulatto is not frequently used in the United States. Americans generally reserve it for biological contexts, because for social purposes a mulatto…

  • Race mixture: a social or a biological problem?

    Race mixture: a social or a biological problem? The Eugenics Review Volume 41, Number 2 (July 1949) pages 81-85 A. Dickinson The ideas of the layman on race are curiously distorted. Race is commonly identified with a given language or culture, with a group living in a common habitat or possessing a single characteristic feature…

  • Reconstructing Race: A Discourse-Theoretical Approach to a Normative Politics of Identity

    Reconstructing Race: A Discourse-Theoretical Approach to a Normative Politics of Identity The Philosophical Forum Volume 43, Issue 1 (Spring 2012) pages 27–49 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9191.2011.00409.x Andrew J. Pierce Loyola University, Chicago The claim that race is “socially constructed” has become something of a platitude in social science and philosophy. At a minimum, such a claim means to…

  • Studies in Race Crossing: IV. Crosses of Chinese, Amerindians and Negroes, and their Bearing on Racial Relationships

    Studies in Race Crossing: IV. Crosses of Chinese, Amerindians and Negroes, and their Bearing on Racial Relationships Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Anthropologie Volume 47, Number 3 (March 1956) pages 233-315 R. Ruggles Gates Department of Anthropology Harvard University With 36 figures on plates 24—32 and 7 figures and 41 tables in the text This paper…

  • Two Minds, One Heart

    Two Minds, One Heart SAS Fronties: Research and Scholarship in the School of Arts & Sciences University of Pennsylvania February 2011 Blake Cole Undergraduate Kaneesha Parsard delves into the storied history of indentured Indian labor in the Caribbean. “Growing up I never thought much about it, except for the fact that in addition to curry…

  • The color of Black: Professor explores racial identity in college students

    The color of Black: Professor explores racial identity in college students Scope: Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education Stanford University 2011-10-10 Barbara McKenna There are lots of different ways to be Black and to have a strong Black identity,” says Camille Charles. But, she adds, research and social definitions of Black identity don’t generally…

  • Author Hill speaks on race, place, and identity at ‘City of Words’ series

    Author Hill speaks on race, place, and identity at ‘City of Words’ series University of Toronto, Scharborough 2012-02-06 Kurt Kleiner Writer Lawrence Hill has always felt attachment to people, not places. Nevertheless, the place he grew up – Don Mills in the early 1960s – shaped him as a person and as a writer.  …