Category: Anthropology

  • My point of departure begins with the social and political fact of being both a Black woman who is Jewish and a Jewish woman who is Black in order to undermine the presupposition of inherent cultural or racial differences that favors the vocabulary of mixed or hybrid identities over the conjunction [both.. and]. Instead of…

  • The Changing Racial and Ethnic Composition of the US Population: Emerging American Identities Population and Development Review Volume 35, Issue 1 (March 2009) pages 1-51 DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2009.00260.x Anthony Daniel Perez, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Charles Hirschman, Boeing International Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology and Center for Studies in…

  • Variablity in Race Hybrids American Anthropologist Volume 40, Issue 4 (October-December 1938) pages 680–697 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1938.40.4.02a00090 Wilson D. Wallis (1886-1970) In his revised edition of The Mind of Primitive Man [Read here], Professor [Franz] Boas warns against assuming “on the basis of a low variability that a type is pure, for we know that some mixed…

  • Biological and Social Consequences of Race-Crossing American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 9, Issue 2 (April/June 1926) pages 145–156 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330090212 W. E. Castle (1867-1962) Bussey Institution, Harvard University What constitute the essential differences between human races seems to be a question difficult for anthropologists to agree upon but from a biologist’s point of view…

  • Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico University of Oklahoma Press December 2010 400 pages 30 B&W Illus., 2 Maps 6.125″ x 9.25″ Hardcover ISBN: 9780806140537 Paperback ISBN: 9780806168920 Shirley Boteler Mock, Research Fellow Mesoamerican Archaeological Research Laboratory, University of Texas, Austin Explores a unique and eclectic culture rooted in African…

  • DNA tests probe the genomic ancestry of Brazilians Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research Volume 42, Number 10 (October 2009) pages 870-876 DOI: 10.1590/S0100-879X2009005000026 S .D. J. Pena GENE, Núcleo de Genética Médica, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil L. Bastos-Rodrigues Departamento…

  • Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity Duke University Press 2008 264 pages 5 photographs, 2 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4058-4 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4058-4 J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies Wesleyan University In the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act (HHCA) of 1921, the U.S. Congress defined “native Hawaiians” as those…

  • Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871–1921 (review) Canadian Journal of Law and Society Volume 25, Number 1, 2010 E-ISSN: 1911-0227 Print ISSN: 0829-3201 DOI: 10.1353/jls.0.0104 Eve Darian-Smith, Professor of Law and Society University of California, Santa Barbara Colonial Proximities is a scholarly, innovative, and illuminating exploration of law, race, and…

  • Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century W. W. Norton and Company April 2010 590 pages 6.2 × 9.3 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-93070-2 Hazel Rose Markus (Editor) Stanford University Paula M. L. Moya (Editor) Stanford University A collection of new essays, written by a team of interdisciplinary authors, that gives a comprehensive introduction to…

  • What’s the Use of Race? Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference The MIT Press May 2010 7 x 9, 296 pp., 7 illus. ISBN-10: 0-262-51424-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51424-8 Edited by Ian Whitmarsh, Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine University of California, San Francisco David S. Jones, Associate Professor of History and Culture…