Category: Articles

  • From Invisible Man to “New People”: The Recent Discovery of American Mulattoes Phylon (1960-) Volume 46, Number 2 (2nd Quarter, 1985) pages 106-122 Patricia Morton It might well seem obvious what the following persons have in common: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Walter White, Horace Mann Bond, Julian Bond, Martin Luther King, Jr.,…

  • Latinos are “Mixed,” Too News Taco: The Latino Daily 2011-07-14 Chantilly Patiño, blogger Bicultural Mom Most times, Americans don’t think of Latinos as being mixed or multicultural, but in reality Latinos are leaders of multiculturalism and mixed families.  Start off with the fact that most Latinos come from a combination of European and Native ancestry,…

  • Mixed Race Season BBC Press Office BBC Two Summer & Autumn 2011 Diverse, stimulating and rewarding television on BBC Two 2011-06-22 Mixed-race Britain is put under the spotlight this autumn in a collection of revealing new programmes. With a mix of drama and documentaries, the season provides a window into the varied lives of mixed-race…

  • Mixed Messages: Barack Obama and Post-Racial Politics Spectator (Journal of the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematics Arts) Volume 30, Number 2 (Fall 2010) pages 9-17 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University The election of President Barack Hussein Obama marks an important milestone in United States racial politics. Many cultural critics and opinion leaders…

  • The historical politics of the New Zealand half-caste MAI Review Issue 3 (2008) Article 7 ISSN 1177-5904 11 pages Gina M. Colvin-McCluskey The archives of settler journalism provides us with a rich resource for engaging with some of the ‘raced’ discourses in circulation at the commencement of Britain’s colonial project in Āotearoa/New Zealand. From these…

  • Although anti-miscegenation laws generally have been analyzed as racial legislation, they also can tell us a great deal about intimacy. These provisions have certainly been used to define and entrench racial difference, but they are also a means to set the boundaries of sexual decency and marital propriety. Here, I will use the comparative experience…

  • School Hygiene and Eugenics: The Role of Physical Education in Regeneration “The Brazilian Race” Revista HISTEDBR On-Line Number 35 (September 2009) pages 19-28 ISSN: 1676-2584 Karl M. Lorenz, Associate Professor, Director Teacher Certification Programs Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut From 1870 to 1930, physicians, writers, anthropologists and educators discussed the relationship between education and the…

  • “My Daughter Married a Negro”: Interracial Relationships in the United States as Portrayed in Popular Media, 1950-1975 Journal of Undergraduate Research University of Wisconsin, La Crosse Volume VIII (2005) 13 pages Melissa Magnuson-Cannady Between 1948 and 1967, thirty states either repealed their anti-miscegenation laws or the states’ laws themselves were struck down as unconstitutional by…

  • Intermarriage and racial amalgamation in the United States Biodemography and Social Biology Volume 14, Issue 2 (1967) pages 112-120 DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1967.9987710 David M. Heer, Professor Emeritus of Sociology University of Southern California Within the last few years tremendous popular interest has been aroused in the subject of Negro-white intermarriage. Fifteen years ago Negro protest leaders…

  • Craniometric Study of the Cape Coloured Population Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa Volume 33, Issue 1 (1951) pages 29-51 DOI: 10.1080/00359195109519876 J. A. Keena Department of Anatomy University of Cape Town (With Plate XI and three Text-figures.) (Read November 16, 1949.) The Cape Coloured people inhabit Cape Town, the Cape Peninsula and…