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  • Genetic Counseling: For children of mixed racial ancestry

    Genetic Counseling: For children of mixed racial ancestry Biodemography and Social Biology Volume 8, Issue 3, 1961 pages 157-163 DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1961.9987478 Sheldon C. Reed, Director Dight Institute for Human Genetics University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Esther B. Nordlie Dight Institute for Human Genetics University of Minnesota, Minneapolis INTRODUCTION The editors of this journal have been interested…

  • Supremacy by Law: The One Man One Woman Marriage Requirement and Antimiscegenation Law

    Supremacy by Law: The One Man One Woman Marriage Requirement and Antimiscegenation Law Journal of Bisexuality Volume 7, Issue 3-4, 2008 pages 145-169 DOI: 10.1080/15299710802170771 Jacqueline Battalora, Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice Saint Xavier University, Orland Park, Illinois This article is concerned with epistemology and the assertion of supremacy. Focusing on the resources…

  • Training for assimilation: Cecil cook and the ‘half‐caste’ apprentice regulations

    Training for assimilation: Cecil cook and the ‘half‐caste’ apprentice regulations Melbourne Studies in Education (Currently known as Critical Studies in Education) Volume 29, Issue 1 (1987) pages 128-141 DOI: 10.1080/17508488709556226 Tony Austin Darwin Institute of Technology One of the most significant consequences of the colonisation of Aboriginal Australia was a fast growing population of people…

  • A Review of “Mixed Race Hollywood”

    A Review of “Mixed Race Hollywood” Quarterly Review of Film and Video Volume 28, Issue 5 (2011) pages 428-433 DOI: 10.1080/10509200902820589 Delia Konzett, Associate Professor of English University of New Hampshire Mixed Race Hollywood, edited by Mary Beltrán and Camilla Fojas. New York: New York University Press, 2008 The problem of the 20th century, W.…

  • The colour line and the colour scale in the twentieth century

    The colour line and the colour scale in the twentieth century Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Issue 7, 2012 pages 1109-1131 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.605902 Michael Banton, Emeritus Professor of Sociology University of Bristol Some more recent evidence supports Du Bois’ prediction that the twentieth century would prove the century of the colour line. It indicates…

  • Black and white twins

    Black and white twins The Guardian 2011-09-23 Joanna Moorhead James and Daniel are twins. What sets them apart is that one is white and one is black—and the differences don’t end there, as Joanna Moorhead discovers The two teenage boys sitting on the sofa opposite are different in almost every way. On the left is…

  • Germany’s ‘Brown Babies’: The Difficult Identities of Post-War Black Children of GIs

    For many of the now-adult children of white German women and African-American GIs, adopted by families in the United States after World War II, the search for the truth has been difficult. Online communities are helping.

  • The “Common Sense” of Race

    The “Common Sense” of Race Southern California Law Review Volume 83, Number 3 (March 2010) pages 441-452 Neil Gotanda, Professor of Law Western State University College of Law, Fullerton California In What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America, Ariela J. Gross provides a compelling and nuanced account of race in…

  • Colourism and African-American Wealth: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century South

    Colourism and African-American Wealth: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century South Journal of Population Economics Volume 20, Number 3 (July 2007) pages 599-620 DOI: 10.1007/s00148-006-0111-x Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina Christopher S. Ruebeck, Associate Professor of Economics Lafayette University, Easton, Pennsylvania Black is not always black. Subtle distinctions in skin tone translate…

  • Acting White or Acting Black: Mixed-Race Adolescents’ Identity and Behavior

    Acting White or Acting Black: Mixed-Race Adolescents’ Identity and Behavior The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy Volume 9, Issue 1 (2009) 44 pages DOI: 10.2202/1935-1682.1688 Christopher S. Ruebeck, Associate Professor of Economics Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania Susan L. Averett, Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania Howard N. Bodenhorn, Professor…