Category: Articles

  • Mentality of Racial Hybrids American Journal of Sociology Volume 36, Number 4 (January 1931) pages 534-551 DOI: 10.1086/215474 Robert E. Park (1864-1944), Professor of Sociology University of Chicago Racial hybrids are one of the natural and inevitable results of migration and the consequent mingling of divergent racial stocks.  The motives bringing peoples of divergent races…

  • Race and Marriage American Journal of Sociology Volume 15, Number 4 (January 1910) pages 433-453 DOI: 10.1086/211800 Ulysses G. Weatherly (1865-1940), Associate Professor of History, Economics and Sociology Indiana University The aversion exhibited by most animals to pairing with individuals of another species has been attributed by Westermarck to the selective power of hereditary instinct.  those…

  • The Problem of the Marginal Man American Journal of Sociology Volume 41, Number 1 (July 1935) Pages 1-12 DOI: 10.1086/217001 Everett V. Stonequist (1901-1979), Professor of Sociology Skidmore College The marginal man arises in a bi-cultural or multi-cultural situation.  The natural desire of the mixed-blood is to advance toward the group occupying the higher status.  He…

  • In mixed-race couples, fathers profoundly influence their children’s racial identifications Research@Rice 2006-09-15 In mixed-race couples, fathers profoundly influence their children’s racial identifications. Interracial marriage increased seven-fold from 1970 to 2000, and how the children of these marriages view their racial identity has a lot to do with their father’s race and the number of father-child…

  • The Veils of the Law: Race and Sexuality in Nella Larsen’s Passing College Literature Volume 22, Number 3 (October 1995) Race and Politics: The Experience of African-American Literature pages 50-67 Corinne E. Blackmer, Associate Professor of English Southern Connecticut State University When Nella Larsen, then a prominent young writer of the Harlem Renaissance, published her…

  • Running Through the Trenches: Or, an Introduction to the Undead Culture Wars and Dead Serious Identity Politics Journal of Communication Inquiry Volume 34, Number 3 (July 2010) pages 210-253 Catherine R. Squires, Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity and Equality University of Minnesota The events of the 2008 election continue to spark prognostications that we live…

  • The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies [Book Review] Civil War Book Review Summer 2010 Michael Perman, Professor of History and Research Professor of Humanities University of Illinois, Chicago Family and Dissent in the South during and after the Civil War Bynum, Victoria E. The Long Shadow of the Civil…

  • Social Construction and the Concept of Race Philosophy of Science Volume 72, Number 5 (December 2005) pages 1208-1219 DOI: 10.1086/508966 Edouard Machery, Associate Professor of History and Philosophy of Science University of Pittsburgh Luc Faucher, Professor of Philosophy Université du Québec, Montréal There has been little serious work to integrate the constructionist approach and the…

  • Aren’t they just black kids? Biracial children in the child welfare system Child & Family Social Work Volume 15, Issue 4 (November 2010) pages 441-45 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2010.00690.x Rachel A. Fusco, Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Pittsburgh Mary E. Rauktis, Research Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Pittsburgh Julie S. McCrae, Research Scientist…

  • Classes You May Have Missed: On Modern Brazilian Literature Pitt Magazine January, 1995 Bobby J. Chamberlain, Associate Professor of Brazilian Culture and Literature University of Pittsburgh Brazilian culture has always been considered a fusion of three different races: the Europeans (specifically Portuguese), the Indians, and the Africans who were taken to Brazil as slaves. But…