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  • The Hybrid in Hawaii as a Marginal Man

    The Hybrid in Hawaii as a Marginal Man American Journal of Sociology Volume 39, Number 4 (January 1934) pages 459-468 William C. Smith William Jewell College Several factors conspire to make the hybrid in Hawaii occupy a position markedly different from that of the mixed-blood in other areas. The relative absence of race prejudice on the…

  • Beyond Liverpool, 1957: Travel, diaspora, and migration in Jamal Mahjoub’s The Drift Latitudes

    Beyond Liverpool, 1957: Travel, diaspora, and migration in Jamal Mahjoub’s The Drift Latitudes The Journal of Commonwealth Literature Volume 46, Number 3 (September 2011) pages 493-511 DOI: 10.1177/0021989411409813 Jopi Nyman, Professor University of Eastern Finland, Finland This essay discusses the novel The Drift Latitudes (2006) by the Anglo-Sudanese author Jamal Mahjoub. By telling the stories…

  • German science and black racism—roots of the Nazi Holocaust

    German science and black racism—roots of the Nazi Holocaust The FASEB Journal (The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) Volume 22, Number 2 (2008) pages 332-337 DOI: 10.1096/fj.08-0202ufm François Haas, Associate Professor Department of Rehabilitation Medicine New York University The Nazi’s cornerstone precept of “racial hygiene” gave birth to their policy…

  • Experiences and Processes Affecting Racial Identity Development: Preliminary Results From the Biracial Sibling Project

    Experiences and Processes Affecting Racial Identity Development: Preliminary Results From the Biracial Sibling Project Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology (formerly Cultural Diversity and Mental Health) Volume 4, Issue 3, August 1998 Pages 237-247 DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.4.3.237 Maria P. P. Root, Ph.D. Examined what drives the process of racial identity development in general for persons of…

  • Lone mothers of mixed racial and ethnic children in Britain: Comparing experiences of social attitudes and support in the 1960s and 2000s

    Lone mothers of mixed racial and ethnic children in Britain: Comparing experiences of social attitudes and support in the 1960s and 2000s Women’s Studies International Forum Volume 34, Issue 6, November-December 2011 Pages 530-538 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2011.06.007 Rosalind Edwards, Professor of Sociology University of Southampton Chamion Cabellero, Senior Research Fellow Social Capital Research Group London South…

  • Miscegenation in South Africa

    Miscegenation in South Africa Cahiers d’études africaines Volume 1, Number 4 (1960) pages 68-84 DOI: 10.3406/cea.1960.3680 Pierre L. Van Den Berghe University of Natal A number of related factors make the Union of South Africa an ideal object of investigation in the field of miscegenation. The exceptionally virulent brand of racism that has developed in…

  • Beyond poverty: the Negro and the Mulatto in Brazil

    Beyond poverty: the Negro and the Mulatto in Brazil Journal de la Société des Américanistes Volume 58 (1969) pages 121-137 DOI: 10.3406/jsa.1969.2100 Florestan Fernandes This paper was first presented, in a condensed version, at the seminars on “Minorities in Latin America and the United States”, (The College of the Finger Lakes, Corning, New York, December…

  • The Racially-Mixed People of the Ramapos: Undoing the Jackson White Legends

    The Racially-Mixed People of the Ramapos: Undoing the Jackson White Legends American Anthropologist Volume 74, Number 5 (October 1972) pages 1276-1285 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.5.02a00190 Daniel Collins North Carolina State University A review of the literature fails to validate the Jackson White legends which traditionally have accounted for the presence of a racially mixed collectivity in the…

  • The Biggest Lie About Race? That It’s Real

    The Biggest Lie About Race? That It’s Real The Root 2011-07-26 Jenée Desmond-Harris, Contributing Editor Dorothy Roberts says race is a social and political construct, and she won’t rest until we know it. There’s a reason we’ll never come to a consensus on the most accurate racial classifications for Barack Obama or Tiger Woods. There’s…

  • Blood Quantum Land Laws and the Race versus Political Identity Dilemma

    Blood Quantum Land Laws and the Race versus Political Identity Dilemma California Law Review Volume 96 (2008) pages 801-838 Rose Cuison Villazor, Associate Professor of Law Hofstra University Modern equal protection doctrine treats laws that make distinctions on the basis of indigeneity defined on blood quantum terms along a racial versus political paradigm. This dichotomy…