Category: Articles

  • Blackness in Germany Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies Volume 1, Number 1 (2007) Tomi Adeaga Universität Siegen, Deutschland This paper analyses the situation of the Black population in Germany. It revises its historical origins, well back in history, although it focuses more on the experience of the younger generation, particularly people of mixed parentage who…

  • Race mixture Eugenics Review Volume 25, Number 3 (October 1933) pages 161–166. K. B. Aikman Abridged from a paper read before the Eugenics Society on June 20th, 1933. The immense advances in the last hundred years in the medical sciences and their application have greatly reduced death-rates, not only in civilized countries, but in savage…

  • Political issues involving the right of so-called ‘superior’ races to preserve privileges denied to other races on account of their so-called ‘inferiority’ are tending to darken counsel in the study of racial biology. Another form of political effort is a desire to demonstrate separateness of physical type, so that a subject race may claim autonomy.…

  • (Paper read at the ninth meeting, 1930, at he the International Federation of Eugenic Organizations.)

  • Hierarchies of whiteness in the geographies of empire: Thomas Thistlewood and the Barrets of Jamaica New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids Volume 80, Numbers 1&2 (2006) pages 5-43 DOI: 10.1163/13822373-90002486 Cecilla A. Green, Associate Professor, Sociology Maxwell School of Syracuse University Shows how a racial solidarity between whites in colonial Jamaica during slavery…

  • Social Status, Race, and the Timing of Marriage in Cuba’s First Constitutional Era, 1902-1940 Journal of Family History Volume 36, Number 1 (December 2010) pages 52-71 DOI: 10.1177/0363199010389546 Enid Lynette Logan, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis This article examines the practice of marriage among whites, mestizos, blacks, Cubans, and Spaniards during the…

  • Half-Caste [Book Review] The Eugenics Review Volume 29, Number 2 (July 1937) pages 141-142 Reviewed by Michael Fielding Dover, Cedric. Half-Caste. London, 1937. Secker & Warburg. Pp. 324. Price 1os. 6d. This book is dedicated to a member of the Council of the Eugenics Society. So if we are a bad lot, as bad as…

  • Reggae superstar Bob Marley suffered due to his mixed-race background

  • The Mulatto Millennium: Rethinking blackness in a multiracial world Utne Reader September/October 1998 Danzy Senna, from the book Half and Half Strange to wake up and realize you’re in style. That’s what happened to me just the other morning. It was the first day of the new millennium, and I woke to find that mulattos…

  • Steelers and Ward nominated for Positive Peace Awards Pittsburgh Steelers News 2010-12-06 Celebrate Positive announced today that the Pittsburgh Steelers and wide receiver Hines Ward have been nominated for the inaugural  2010 United Nations NGO Positive Peace Awards in the Professional Sports Team and Professional Athlete categories. This award, viewed as a 21st century peace…