Category: Articles

  • Letter to the Editor: Multi-ethnic clubs benefit community Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2010-10-18 Thomas Lopez, Alumnus University of California, Berkeley What’s in a name? Answering that question can be difficult for some multiracial students. So often throughout history, names have been given for us, many of them pejorative, that it becomes difficult…

  • Nella Larsen and the Veil of Race American Literary History Volume 9, Number 2 (Summer, 1997) pages 329-349 George Hutchinson People see what they want to see, and then they’ll claim you.  Not claim you, but label you. Because it’s not really about claiming you.  The white people don’t want you around.  You’re not really…

  • The Influence of Bob Marley’s Absent, White Father The Dread Library Essays from the University of Vermont Class, Rhetoric of Reggae Music 2002-04-30 Scott Gurtman My fadda was a guy yunno, from England here, yunno?  Him was like…like you can read it yunno, it’s one o’dem slave stories: white guy get the black woman and…

  • Video From Angle Event Reopens Subject of Race New York Times 2010-10-19 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent Louie Gong, a 36-year-old Seattle resident who is a mix of American Indian, white and Chinese, is often mistaken for Latino. “Most people don’t look at me and say ‘Chinese,’ ” he said. “Then I tell them what my…

  • The Population Variance of the Proportion of Genetic Admixture in Human Intergroup Hybrids Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences December 1971 Volume 68, Number 12 pages 3168–3169 PMCID: PMC389614 T. Edward Reed, Professor of Zoology and Anthropology; Associate Professor of Paediatrics University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada For each individual in a human hybrid population…

  • Caucasian Genes in American Negroes Science (1969-08-22) Volume 165 pages 762-768 DOI: 10.1126/science.165.3895.762 T. Edward Reed, Professor of Zoology and Anthropology; Associate Professor of Paediatrics University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Measurement of non-African ancestry is difficult, but it is worthwhile for several genetic reasons. It is very difficult to describe the genetic history of a…

  • Intellectual Development of Children from Interracial Matings Science (1970-12-18) Volume 170, Number 3964 pages 1329-1331 DOI: 10.1126/science.170.3964.1329 Lee Willerman Perinatal Research Branch National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health Alfred F. Naylor Perinatal Research Branch National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health Ntinos C. Myrianthopoulos Perinatal Research…

  • The Sociological Relevance of the Concept of Half-Caste in British Society Phylon (1960-) Volume 36, Number 3 (3rd Quarter, 1975) pages 309-320 G. Llewellyn Watson, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Prince Edward Island Great Britain has a long tradition of social class distinctions and relations. Indeed, the early British railways of the nineteenth century…

  • Danielle Evans, an author straddling racial divides Washington Post 2010-10-07 DeNeen L. Brown, Staff Writer It is the tale of a biracial girl who is sent by her mother one summer to visit her white grandmother. But the grandmother immediately disapproves of her daughter’s child with the brown skin and long, curly hair. “If I…

  • The social ambiguity of race and ethnicity Campus Times Serving the University of Rochester since 1873 2010-09-30 Victoria Massie One of the reasons why I fell in love with anthropology is because I realized that race isn’t an inherent part of who we are. Through careful socialization, via standardized tests and my parents, I had…