Category: Articles

  • Race as a social question in Brazil The Rice Institute Pamphlet Volume 27, Number 4 (October 1940) pages 218-241 Carlos M. Delgado de Carvalho (1884-1990) I. ETHNIC COMPOSITION OF THE BRAZILIAN POPULATION At first sight, it seems that race could be considered as the capital element of the biological aspect of society. Race is a…

  • Acclaimed author reveals secret Scottish roots in moving tribute Daily Record Glasgow, Scotland 2011-05-08 Maggie Barry Sunday Mail Writer Aminatta Forna has been called many things in her life but never Scottish—until today. The African author’s fearless books exposing betrayal and treachery in Sierra Leone have brought critical acclaim and awards. But only now has…

  • Between black and miscegenated population groups: sickle cell anemia and sickle cell trait in Brazil in the 1930s and 1940s História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos Volume 18, Number 2 (April/June 2011) 29 pages DOI: 10.1590/S0104-59702011000200007 Juliana Manzoni Cavalcanti, PhD candidate Graduate Program on History of the Sciences and Health Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Marcos Chor…

  • The Stain of White: Liaisons, Memories, and White Men as Relatives Men and Masculinities Volume 9, Number 2 (October 2006) pages 131-151 DOI: 10.1177/1097184X06287764 Janaki Abraham, Assistant Professor Women Studies Jawaharlal Neru University During British colonial rule some matrilineal Thiyya women in North Kerala, India, had liaisons with British men. While the response of the…

  • Review: Giller winner recounts struggles of mixed-race jazz musicians in prewar Europe Ottowa Citizen 2011-11-09 Julian Gunn Half-Blood Blues By Esi Edugyan, Thomas Allen, 2011. I remember waiting for a bus and listening to a literary podcast when I heard that Victoria, B.C. author Esi Edugyan’s second novel, Half-Blood Blues, had made the Man Booker…

  • “Free People of Color” in Old Virginia: The Morris Family of Gloucester County, a Case Study Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2011-11-10 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Back in 1977, when I was a junior in college, history became a personal venture for me when an African…

  • Playwright discusses biracialism The Dartmouth 2006-01-18 Ashley Zuzek, The Dartmouth Staff William S. Yellow Robe, Jr., author of the play “Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers,” discussed the psychology of racial duality during a Tuesday night discussion at the Hopkins Center and emphasized the need for Americans of mixed blood to identify with a single race…

  • White and mixed-race youths rank high in alcohol, substance abuse Los Angeles Times 2011-11-07 Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times/For the Booster Shots blog The first-ever survey of adolescent alcohol and drug abuse to recognize youths of mixed race or ethnicity has found that such kids hover closest to white adolescents in the rate at which…

  • Race, Reproduction and Family Romance in Moreau de Saint-Mery’s Description. ..de la partie francaise de l’isle Saint Domingue Eighteenth-Century Studies Volume 38, Number 2, Winter 2005 pages 227-246 DOI: 10.1353/ecs.2005.0008 Doris Lorraine Garraway, Associate Professor of French Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois This paper analyzes the colonial jurist and historian Moreau de Saint-Méry’s racial classification system…

  • Redrawing the Color Line: Gender and the Social Construction of Race in Pre-Revolutionary Haiti Journal of Caribbean History Volume 30, Numbers 1 & 2 (1996) pages 28-50 John D. Garrigus, Associate Professor of History University of Texas, Austin This article examines the social and political construction of race in French colonial Saint-Domingue. After 1763 white…