Category: Articles

  • Lansing has highest percentage of people who identify as multiple-race black Lansing State Journal 2011-11-18 Matthew Miller Gianni Risper has a black mother, a white biological father (as opposed to the father who raised him, his mother’s husband) and a way of describing himself that isn’t found on any Census form: Italian-Caribbean-American. “Race is becoming…

  • Mixed-race Koreans urge identity rethink The Korea Herald 2011-12-07 Kirsty Taylor Things have come a long way since the 1970s when mixed-race Koreans here were spat upon and beaten up for being different. The kids of that time, whose fathers were often foreign soldiers who first came here during the Korean War, used to find…

  • Dominican Republic Country Profile BBC News 2011-12-06 Once ruled by Spain, the Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, a former French colony. OVERVIEW… …The Dominican Republic is inhabited mostly by people of mixed European and African origins. Western influence is seen in the colonial buildings of the capital, Santo Domingo, as well…

  • The Measurement of Negro “Passing” American Journal of Sociology Volume 52, Number 1 (July, 1946) pages 18-22 John H. Burma Older and popular methods of estimating the number of Negroes who pass over into the white group are no longer to be credited. Considerable misconception exists concerning passing itself, which is more frequently temporary and…

  • Patterns of gene flow between Negroes and whites in the US Journal of Biosocial Science Volume 8, Issue 4 (1976) pages 309-333 DOI: 10.1017/S002193200001083X K. F. Dyer Department of Genetics University of Adelaide, South Australia A review of the pattern and magnitude of negro–white mating in the US is presented from the time of the…

  • Race—Social or Biological? International Socialist Review Volume 21, Number 1 (Winter 1960) pages 26-27 David Dreiser Caste, Class & Race, by Oliver Cromwell Cox  Monthly Review Press, New York. 1959. 600 pp. This penetrating and scholarly work originally appeared in 1948 and it is a well-deserved recognition of the author and a happy occasion for…

  • Crossing Lines: Praxis in Mixed Race/Space Studies: Proposal Deadline Crossing Lines: Praxis in Mixed Race/Space Studies 2012-03-16 throught 2012-03-17 University of California, Berkeley Co-Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender and Ethnic Studies Department Call for Proposals – Deadline: 2012-01-15 In traditional Ethnic Studies, mixed race scholarship has often been marginalized, misappropriated,…

  • Show me your CDIB: Blood Quantum and Indian Identity among Indian People of Oklahoma American Behavioral Scientist Volume 47, Number 3 (November 2003) pages 267-282 DOI: 10.1177/0002764203256187 James F. Hamill, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Discourse concerning the legitimacy of claims of Indian identity characterize much of the debate in Indian country…

  • Migration and Race Mixture from the Genetic Angle The Eugenics Review Volume 51, Number 2 (July 1959) pages 93-97 Sir Macfarlane Burnet, O.M., F.R.S., Director Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research This paper was prepared at the request of the Department of Immigration for discussion by delegates at the Australian Citizenship Convention. The…

  • Post-Racial America? Multiracial Identification and the Color Line in the 21st Century Nanzan Review of American Studies Volume 30 (2008) pages 13-31 Jennifer Lee, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine The United States is more racially diverse than at any point in history. Once a largely black-white society with a distinct color line…