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  • African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America

    African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America Southern Spaces An interdisciplinary journal about regions, places, and cultures of the U.S. South and their global connections 2004-03-17 Carole Merritt, Director The Herndon Home, Atlanta, Georgia The development of the African American community in Atlanta is a fruitful subject…

  • Race Problems in America

    Race Problems in America Science Magazine Volume 29, Number 752 (1909-05-28) pages 839-849 DOI: 10.1126/science.29.752.839 Franz Boas The development of the American nation through amalgamation of diverse European nationalities and the ever-increasing heterogeneity of the component elements of four people have called attention to the anthropological and biological problems involved in this process. I propose…

  • Letter to the Editor: Alleged Extinction of Mulatto

    Letter to the Editor: Alleged Extinction of Mulatto Science Magazine Volume 20, Number 517 (1892-12-30) page 375 DOI: 10.1126/science.ns-20.517.375 A few months since an article appeared in a medical journal affirming that the pure mulatto colonies of southern Ohio were dying out after the fourth generation. Can any reader point me to the article in…

  • Methods of Racial Analysis

    Methods of Racial Analysis Science Magazine Volume 63, Number 1621 (1926-01-22) pages 75-81 DOI: 10.1126/science.63.1621.75 E. A. Hooton Significance of the Term “Race” The term “race” as applied to man is commonly employed with no accurate and well-defined meaning. One often sees references to the “white race,” the “Jewish race,” the “Latin race,” the “Irish…

  • Multicultural ‘obsession’ drives new Parliamentary Poet Laureate

    Drag our Leaf Icon above to your taskbar to bookmark TGAM in Internet Explorer 9. Show me how Please don’t show me this again Remind me later Multicultural ‘obsession’ drives new Parliamentary Poet Laureate The Globe and Mail Toronto, Canada 2011-12-21 Jane Taber, Senior Political Writer Fred Wah is a little more familiar with the…

  • A White Woman From Kansas

    A White Woman From Kansas The New York Times 2011-06-02 Roger Cohen LONDON—For a long time Barack Obama’s mother was little more than the “white woman from Wichita” mentioned in an early Los Angeles Times profile of the future president. She was the pale Kansan silhouette against whom Obama drew the vivid Kenyan figure of…

  • Obama’s story resonates in racially diverse Brazil

    Obama’s story resonates in racially diverse Brazil Washington Post 2011-03-18 Juan Forero, Staff Writer RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil is a big gumbo of ethnicities, its people proud of their diversity and confident their country is among the most tolerant of nations. But this country—a leading center of black culture—has never had a black president.…

  • My Experience on the Indian-Negro Color Line

    My Experience on the Indian-Negro Color Line Indian Country Today 2011-12-27 Julianne Jennings Arizona State University Growing-up on the Indian-Negro color line (I am the daughter of a European mother and a black and Indian father), I lived with mixed signals and coded information by the dominant culture. It had determined that white European culture…

  • Between Cultural Lines

    Between Cultural Lines Collide Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California Student Magazine 2011-12-07 Chelsey Barmore, Staff Writer For some, finding their identities as biracial or multiracial individuals can bring forth challenges. Someone born with blended ethnicities may experience the frequent question of, “What are you?” Mistaken for one race and not recognized for the other may…

  • Speak, So I Might See You! Afro-German Literature

    In recent decades Germany has struggled with the reality of being a multicultural society. The influx of political and economic refugees from Asia and Africa as well as growing friction between resident aliens euphemistically termed “Gastarbeiter” (guest workers) and the German population have created a political atmosphere conducive to neofascist and nationalistic elements expounding xenophobic…