Category: Anthropology

  • Blood groups of Whites, Negroes and Mulattoes from the State of Maranhão, Brazil American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 6, Issue 4 (December 1948) pages 423–428 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330060412 E. M. da Silva Department of Hematology Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Within the Brazilian “melting pot” the intensity and variation of the racial mixture…

  • Studies in Melanin Pigmentation of the Skin of Racial Crosses in Port Moresby Oceania Volume 33, Number. 4 (June, 1963) pages 287-292 R. J. Walsh New South Wales Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, Sydney, Australia A. V. G. Price Department of Public Health, Territory of Papua and New Guinea The colour of the skin in…

  • The Physical Form of Mississippi Negroes American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 16, Issue 2 (October/December 1931) pages 193–201 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330160213 Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963), Professor of Anthropology and African Studies Northwestern University Vivian K. Cameron Harriet Smith During the years 1923 to 1927, research was carried on in an attempt to investigate the physical…

  • Cast From Their Ancestral Home, Creoles Worry About Culture’s Future New York Times 2005-10-11 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent NATCHITOCHES PARISH, La., Oct. 9 – It is peaceful here on the Cane River, beyond the fluffy tops of high cotton and towering magnolia trees, but it is not home. For the New Orleans Creoles living in…

  • Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging Duke University Press November 2010 320 pages 15 photographs, 4 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4683-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4695-1 Eleana J. Kim, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Rochester Since the end of the Korean War, an estimated 200,000 children from South Korea have been adopted into…

  • Hybrids and History. The Role of Race and Ethnic Crossing in Individual and National Achievement The Quarterly Review of Biology Volume 26, Number 4 (December, 1951) pages 331-347 George D. Snell (1903-1996) Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine It is curious to reflect that almost the requisite three or four hundred years have…

  • ‘Such fine families’: photography and race in the work of Caroline Bond Day Visual Studies Volume 21, Issue 2 (October 2006) pages 106-132 DOI: 10.1080/14725860600944971 Heidi Ardizzone, Assistant Professor of American Studies University of Notre Dame This article examines a collection of family photographs published in an unusual 1932 anthropological study of ‘Negro-White families’. In…

  • Heredity of Skin Color in Negro-White Crosses Carnegie Institution of Washington 1913 106 pages Number 188, Paper Number 20 of the Station for experimental evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, New York Charles B. Davenport (1866-1944), Director Eugenics Record Office, Carnegie Department of Genetics, and Biological Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor, New York Table of Contents A.…

  • African Ancestry of the White American Population The Ohio Journal of Science Volume 58, Number 3 (May 1958) pages 155-160 Robert P. Stuckert Departments of Sociology and Anthropology Ohio State University, Columbus Defining a racial group generally poses a problem to social scientists. A definition of a race has yet to be proposed that is…

  • Trends in Mate Selection in a Tri-Racial Isolate Social Forces Volume 37, Number 3 (March 1959) pages 215-221 Thomas J. Harte Catholic University of America Read before the twenty-first annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society in Asheville, North Carolina, April 11, 1958. The “Brandywine” population of Southern Maryland is a tri-racial hybrid group which…