Category: Articles

  • Professor Alcira Dueñas: Illuminating the Andes: Indigenous and Mestizo Intellectuals in Colonial Peru ¿Qué Pasa, OSU? Ohio State University Autumn 2009 Michael J. Alarid A citizen of Colombia, Professor Alcira Dueñas is a historian who conducts research on the cultural and intellectual history of Amerindians and other subordinated groups of the Peruvian Andes during the…

  • “So what are you…?”: Life as a Mixed-Blood in Academia The American Indian Quarterly Volume 27, Numbers 1 & 2 (Winter/Spring 2003) pages 369-372 E-ISSN: 1534-1828 Print ISSN: 0095-182X DOI: 10.1353/aiq.2004.0038 Julie Pelletier, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and Director of the Aboriginal Governance Program University of Winnepeg My mentor, Loudell Snow, and I were…

  • Intelligence of Negroes of Mixed Blood in Canada The Journal of Negro Education Volume 10, Number 4 (October, 1941) pages 650-652 H. A. Tanser Miscegenation, as between the White and Negro races, presents an interesting field for study. Herskovits, Hooton, Peterson and Lanier, and others have attempted to investigate such so-called racial differences as those…

  • Color, Race, and Genomic Ancestry in Brazil: Dialogues between Anthropology and Genetics Current Anthropology Volume 50, Number 6 (2009) pages 787-819 DOI: 10.1086/644532 Ricardo Ventura Santos, Professor of Biological Anthropology and Public Health Oswaldo Cruz Foundation also Associate professor of Anthropology National Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Peter H. Fry, Professor Federal University of Rio…

  • The Political Ontology of Race Polity 2011-10-17 DOI: 10.1057/pol.2011.15 Michael Rabinder James, Associate Professor of Political Science Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania   Race theory is dominated by two camps. Eliminativists rely on a biological ontology, which contends that the concept of race must be biologically grounded, in order to repudiate the very term, on grounds…

  • Escape into Whiteness The New York Review of Books 2011-11-24 Brent Staples Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. 415 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9781594202827. Tickets to the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial were a hot item in the spring of…

  • Playing in the dark/ playing in the light: Coloured identity in the novels of Zoë Wicomb Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa Volume 20, Issue 1, 2008 pages 1-15 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2008.9678286 J. U. Jacobs, Senior Professor of English and Fellow University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Zoë Wicomb’s three fictional works—You Can’t Get Lost…

  • Brazil: Census “Reveals” Majority of Population is Black or Mixed Race Global Voices 2011-11-29 Written by: Paula Góes Translated by: Maisie Fitzpatrick [All links lead to Portuguese language pages except when otherwise noted.] For the first time in Brazilian history, the national census has shown that the majority of the population, 50.7% of a total…

  • Racial, Religious, and Civic Creole Identity in Colonial Spanish America The Journal of American History Volume 17, Issue 3 (Fall 2005) pages 420-437 DOI: 10.1093/alh/aji024 Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History University of Texas, Austin Patrocinio de la Virgen de Guadalupe sobre el Reino de Nueva España (“Auspices of Our Lady of Guadalupe…

  • Post-Raciality or a Re-Imagining of Whiteness: an Interview with Clarence E. Walker Platform: Journal of Media and Communication Volume 3, Issue 1, Media and “Race” (April 2011) pages 26-34 ISSN: 1836-5132 Sandy Watson, University of Melbourne, Australia Clarence Walker is recognised as one of the leading historians of American race relations, and is noted for…