Category: Articles

  • African and American: The Contact of Negro and Indian Science Magazine Volume 17, Number 419 (1891-02-13) pages 85-90 DOI: 10.1126/science.ns-17.419.85 The history of the negro on the continent of America has been studied from various points of view, but id every instance with regard alone to his contact with the white race. It must be,…

  • Conversation Of The Week XXII: Mixed-Race Students and The College Experience USARiseUp 2011-04-18 Amy O’Loughlin In January, The New York Times published “Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above,” a provocative and widely circulated article about college students of mixed racial and ethnic backgrounds, as well as the rise in population…

  • Racing ahead, going nowhere Very Fine Commentary 2011-04-17 Yoong Ren Yan, Editor Are we running around in circles with our policies on race? Racism is bad. What more is there to say?” It may not have been the case just 50 years ago in the time of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, but in…

  • Tale of a ‘Seditionist’–The Lawrence Dennis Story AntiWar.com 2000-04-29 Justin Raimondo War infects and weakens our republican form of government, spreads social and political diseases throughout the body politic—but is, as Randolph Bourne put it, “the health of the State.” The State, in wartime, is glorified and empowered: the militarization of society means that all…

  • Racial/Ethnic Categories: Do They Matter? Poverty & Race November/December 1994 Lawrence Wright Chester Hartman, Director of Research Poverty & Race Research Action Council Last fall, the House Subcommittee on Census, Statistics and Postal Personnel, chaired by Rep. Thomas Sawyer (D-OH), held a series of hearings on modification of the existing racial categories used by the…

  • Mixing it up: Multiracialism redefines Asian American identity San Francisco Chronicle 2011-02-11 Jeff Yang, Special to SF Gate How the mainstreaming of multiracialism is forcing a more fluid definition of Asian American identity   Like many immigrants, my parents see identity as a bucket. My mother and father had come to America carefully bearing a…

  • For black Americans, multi-racialism is not new The Daily Voice 2008-12-17 Sitafa Harden Clearly President-elect Barack Obama, the son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, is multi-racial. The only question is what’s so new about that? In a recent article, AP race and ethnicity writer Jesse Washington explored the issue of…

  • HLA class I variation controlled for genetic admixture in the Gila River Indian Community of Arizona: A model for the Paleo-Indians Human Immunology Volume 33, Issue 1 (January 1992) Pages 39–46 DOI: 10.1016/0198-8859(92)90050-W Robert C. Williams Histocompatibility Laboratory, Blood Systems, Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University Joan E. McAuley Histocompatibility Laboratory, Blood…

  • Rethinking Race History: The Role of the Albino in the Frence Enlightenment Life Sciences History and Theory Volume 48, Issue 3 (October 2009) pages 151–179 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2303.2009.00502.x Andrew Curran, Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures Wesleyan University The scholarly quest to recover the construction of racial difference in the Enlightenment-era life sciences generally overlooks a…

  • Anthropology at the Washington Meeting for 1911 Science Magazine Volume 35, Number 904 (1912-04-26) pages 665-676 DOI: 10.1126/science.35.904.665 George Grant MacCurdy (1863-1947), Assistant Professor of Archæology Yale University The annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association was held in the United States National Museum, Washington, D. C., December 27-30, 1911, in affiliation with Section H of…