Category: Anthropology

  • Vikings Possibly Carried Native American to Europe Discovery News 2010-11-17 Medieval texts suggest the Vikings arrived in the New World more than 1,000 years ago. THE GIST DNA analysis reveals that four families in Iceland possess genes typically found in Native Americans or East Asians. Genealogical evidence revealed that these families shared a distant ancestor…

  • Miscegenation Anthropological Review Volume 2, Number 5 (May, 1864) pages 116-121 During the last two months there have come reports to Europe of the remarkable form of insanity which is just now affecting the people of Federal America.  We should not have thought it worth while to take any notice of the publication of the…

  • Pinturas de Casta: Mexican Caste Paintings, a Foucauldian Reading New Readings School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University Volume 10 (July 2009) page 1-17 Nasheli Jiménez del Val Cardiff University This article looks at the genre of casta painting developed in colonial Mexico during the eighteenth century. The genre consists of a series of paintings representing…

  • The People of Frilot Cove: A Study of Racial Hybrids The American Journal of Sociology Volume 57, Number 2 (September 1951) pages 145-149 J. Hardy Jones, Jr. Vernon J. Parenton Frilot Cove is a color-conscious, semi-isolated rural community of 302 persons with an ante bellum cultural background, who, though they approximate Nordic and Mediterranean types, are…

  • Gene admixture in human populations: Models and predictions American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 29, Issue Supplement S7 (1986) pages 1–43 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330290502 Ranajit Chakraborty, Robert A. Kehoe Professor and Director of Center for Genome Information University of Cincinnati Brief accounts of methods for estimating proportions of admixture in populations and individuals of hybrid origin…

  • Trends in the Naming of Tri-Racial Mixed-Blood Groups in the Eastern United States American Speech Volume 22, Number 2 (April, 1947) pages 81-87 A. R. Dunlap University of Delaware C. A. Weslager University of Delaware In the eastern part of the United States, particularly in the southern and middle-Atlantic portions, are a number of populations…

  • Constructing Whiteness: Regulating Aboriginal identity University of Toronto 2009 93 pages Publication Number: AAT MR59722 ISBN: 9780494597224 Rebecca Boock A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts Graduate Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education Ontario Institute for Studies in Education University of Toronto Curricula in classrooms…

  • Video from 2010 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at DePaul now available on iTunes U If you missed the Nov 5-6, 2010 “Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies” conference or any of the keynote talks or the welcoming address, you can now download the videos via Apple’s iTunes U. Here is a link to the…

  • Ethnic, Multi-Ethnic, and Nationalist Identity in Belize: Voices of Belizean Children Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education Volume 3, Number 1 (Spring 2001) Theme: International Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity Sarah Woodbury Haug This paper discusses ethnicity and nationalism in children in the rural community of Punta Gorda, Belize. Ethnicity and nationalism are important aspects of…

  • Ethnicity and Ethnically “Mixed” Identity in Belize: A Study of Primary School-Age Children Anthropology & Education Quarterly Volume 29, Issue 1 (March 1998) pages 44–67 DOI: 10.1525/aeq.1998.29.1.44 Sarah Woodbury Haug This article focuses on the ehtnic identity of children in Belize. Belizean nationalism, as taught in the primary schools, is both pan-ethnic and multiethnic. However,…