Category: Articles

  • The Anglo-Indian Community American Journal of Sociology Volume 40, Number 2 (September, 1934) pages 165-179 Elmer L. Hedin Halcyon, California Of the several half-caste croups in Asia, the largest and most self-conscious is the Anglo-Indian Community. It numbers perhaps two hundred thousand persons who maintain themselves precariously on the outskirts of British-Indian officialdom, employed for…

  • Slaves and Masters: The Louisiana Metoyers National Genealogical Society Quarterly (current source: Historic Pathways) Volume 70, Number 3 (September 1982) pages 163-189 Elizabeth Shown Mills Gary B. Mills (1944-2002) The pursuit of genealogical research by Afro-Americans is a fairly-recent innovation in the American social experience. From an academic standpoint, today’s generation of black family historians…

  • Student reflection on the Luther Lecture Impetus Luther College at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Fall 2011 Jenna Tickell Senator Lillian Eva Dyck was the 36th Annual Luther Lecturer.  Senator Dyck presented her personal story in relation to the issues of racism and sexism in Canada.  She began with power-point statistics and ended with…

  • Color Differentiation in the American Systems of Slavery The Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 3, Number 3 (Winter, 1973) pages 509-541 Donald L. Horowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science Duke University In the comparative study of race relations, the evolution of group identity constitutes a central process. Although group boundaries tend…

  •  Her “Nig”: Returning the Gaze of Nella Larsen’s “Passing” Modern Language Studies Volume 32, Number 2 (Autumn, 2002) pages 109-138 Lori Harrison-Kahan, Full-time Adjunct Faculty in English Boston College In a scene from Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel, Passing, a white man, John Bellew, enters his Chicago hotel room to find his wife, Clare, taking tea…

  • Study: Multiracial groups and social position, segregation in America The JHU Gazette Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland 2011-12-19 Amy Lunday, Homewood The American social hierarchy places people of mixed-race ancestry below whites but above blacks, while additional social stratifications along color lines are simultaneously taking place within the nation’s multiracial groups, according to a Johns…

  • Islands and autochthons: Coloureds, space and belonging in Rhodesia and Zimbabwe (Part 1) Journal of Social Archaeology Volume 4, Number 3 (October 2004) pages 405-426 DOI: 10.1177/1469605304046423 Julia Katherine Seirlis Department of Anthropology University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa This article, the first in a two-part series, examines the ramifications of the complex relationships between race…

  • Power, Perception, and Interracial Sex: Former Slaves Recall a Multiracial South The Journal of Southern History Volume 71, Number 3 (August, 2005) pages 559-588 Fay A. Yarbrough, Associate Professor of History University of Oklahoma My father’s name wuz Robert Stewart. He wuz a white man. My mother wuz named Ann. She wuz part Indian. Her…

  • The Hybrid and the Social Process Phylon (1940-1956) Volume 6, Number 4 (4th Quarter, 1945) pages 327-336 Jitsuichi Masuoka An intermixture of blood is an invariable outcome of human migration, contact, and association. To this statement there seems to be no historical exception. Races and peoples, however much they may be physically and culturally dissimilar,…

  • A Pedigree Study of Amerindian Crosses in Canada The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Volume 58, (July – December, 1928) pages 511-532 R. Ruggles Gates Department of Anthropology Harvard University This paper is an attempt to apply genetical methods to the study of inter-racial crossing. In the anthropological studies…