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  • Bill John Baker named official winner in Cherokee chief election

    Bill John Baker named official winner in Cherokee chief election Tusla World 2011-10-13 Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton, World Correspondent TAHLEQUAH – Bill John Baker is now officially principal chief-elect of the Cherokee Nation. About 1:45 p.m. Wednesday, the Cherokee Nation Election Commission certified the results from the tribe’s special election. The certified results show Baker defeating former…

  • In Strangers’ Glances at Family, Tensions Linger

    In Strangers’ Glances at Family, Tensions Linger The New York Times 2011-10-13 Susan Saulny TOMS RIVER, N.J. — “How come she’s so white and you’re so dark?” The question tore through Heather Greenwood as she was about to check out at a store here one afternoon this summer. Her brown hands were pushing the shopping…

  • The Marginalization of Afro-Asians in East Asia: Globalization and the Creation of Subculture and Hybrid Identity

    The Marginalization of Afro-Asians in East Asia: Globalization and the Creation of Subculture and Hybrid Identity Global Tides: Pepperdine Journal of International Studies Volume 5 (2011) 15 pages Pepperdine University, Malibu, California Sierra Reicheneker This article explores the topic of children born of biracial couplings in East Asia. The offspring of such unique unions face…

  • Institutional Barriers, Marginality, and Adaptation Among the American-Japanese Mixed Bloods in Japan

    Institutional Barriers, Marginality, and Adaptation Among the American-Japanese Mixed Bloods in Japan The Journal of Asian Studies Volume 42, Number 3 (1983) pages 519-544 DOI: 10.2307/2055516 William R. Burkhardt, Assistant Professor of Sociology Ohio University Guided by the perspective of marginality theory, the author examines the problems that have faced the mixed-blood progeny of Japanese…

  • Savage Half-Breed, French Canadian or White US Citizen? Louis Riel and US Perceptions of Nation and Civilisation

    Savage Half-Breed, French Canadian or White US Citizen? Louis Riel and US Perceptions of Nation and Civilisation National Identities Volume 7, Issue 4, 2005 pages 369-388 DOI: 10.1080/14608940500334390 Lauren L. Basson, Assistant Professor of Politics and Government Ben-Gurion University, Israel Louis Riel was the late nineteenth-century leader of the Métis, an indigenous, North American people…

  • Defending Home and Hearth: Walter White Recalls the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot

    Defending Home and Hearth: Walter White Recalls the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot Web Source: History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web Walter White, A Man Called White 1948; reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1969 pages 5–12 Walter White (1893-1955) The riots that broke out between 1898 and 1906 were part of a pattern…

  • Walter White and Passing

    Walter White and Passing Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 2, Issue 1 (2005) pages 17-27 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X05050034 Kenneth R. Janken, Professor, African and Afro-American Studies University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Walter White, the blond, blue-eyed Atlantan, was a voluntary Negro, that is, an African American who appears to be White…

  • The Awareness of Walter White

    The Awareness of Walter White The Land Press Okiecentric 2011-05-05 Adrian Margaret Brune I grew up in Tulsa, but was raised knowing next to nothing about the Race Riot of 1921. Though I considered myself educated when I left for Northwestern University at the age of 18 in 1994, I had never taken a black…

  • Measuring Race and Ethnicity: Why and How?

    Measuring Race and Ethnicity: Why and How? The Journal of the American Medical Association Volume 292, Number 13 (2004) pages 1612-1614 DOI: 10.1001/jama.292.13.1612 Margaret A. Winker, MD, Deputy Editor and Online Editor Journal of the American Medical Association Race and enthnicity are constantly evolving concepts, deceptively easy to measure and used ubiquitously in the biomedical literature,…

  • The Negro as a Health Problem

    In the South, regardless of hair-splitting dictionary or legal definitions, it is customary to regard as negro any person who is known to have any negro blood in his veins; this despite the fact that the Supreme Court of Louisiana has lately handed down a decision restricting the term “negro” to those having a greater…