Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Anthropology
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A tale of two scholars: The Darwin debate at Harvard Harvard Gazette 2007-05-19 Louis Agassiz was a scientist with a blind spot—he rejected the theory of evolution Few people have left a more indelible imprint on Harvard than Louis Agassiz. An ambitious institution-builder and fundraiser as well as one of the most renowned scientists of…
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Afro-Mexico: Dancing between Myth and Reality University of Texas Press December 2010 183 pages 62 b&w illus, 14 color photos 7 x 10 in. Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-292-72324-5 Anita González, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Theatre Arts State University of New York, New Paltz Photographs by George O. Jackson and José Manuel Pellicer Foreword by…
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Will there ever be a rainbow Japan? CNN International CNN Go 2010-12-01 Tracy Slater Government statistics suggest multiculturalism is on the rise, but social organizations for mixed-race Japanese say ‘hafus’ still face challenges Japan, which closed its borders from 1639 to 1854 and later colonized its neighbors, has an uneasy history with foreigners, national identity,…
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The Coe Ridge Colony: A Racial Island Disappears American Anthropologist Volume 74, Issue 3 (June 1972) pages 710–719 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.3.02a00350 Lynwood Montell Western Kentucky University The ninety year history of a racial isolate in the Kentucky–Tennessee border is examined. Peopled by a mixed population of Whites, Blacks, and, occasionally, Indians, the community received notoriety as…
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The Physical Anthropology and Genetics of Marginal People of the Southeastern United States American Anthropologist Volume 74, Issue 3 (June 1972) pages 719–734 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.3.02a00360 William S. Pollitzer University of North Carolina Admixture of White, Negro, and Indian peoples of the Southeastern United States from colonial days on has led to some unique populations isolated…
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Race Mixture among Northeastern Brazilian Populations American Anthropologist Volume 64, Issue 4 (August 1962) pages 751–759 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1962.64.4.02a00050 P. H. Saldanha Laboratória de Genética Humana Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Northeastern Brazilian populations are extremely interesting for racial studies. These populations are derived from the intermixture of Negroes, Whites (Portuguese), and…
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The American Isolates American Anthropologist Volume 74, Issue 3 (June 1972) pages 693–694 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.3.02a00320 B. Eugene Griessman Auburn University More than 200 American isolates have been identified historically in at least eighteen of the eastern states of the United States. Their total population has been estimated at 75,000. Those who populate these communities commonly…
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On Mixed-Racial Isolates American Anthropologist Volume 76, Issue 2 (June 1974) pages 343–344 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1974.76.2.02a00190 G. Harry Stopp, Jr. Louisiana State University In recent articles on American isolates (American Anthropologist 74: 693-7 34) Beale, and Dane and Griessman predicted change for “mixed-racial” communities in the United States stemming from the recent civil rights legislation. They…
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An Overview of the Phenomenon of Mixed Racial Isolates in the United States American Anthropologist Volume 74, Issue 3 (June 1972) pages 704–710 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.3.02a00340 Calvin L. Beale Economic Research Service U.S. Department of Agriculture The subject of the paper is population groups of real or alleged tri-racial origin—Indian, White, and Negro. There is a…