Category: Anthropology

  • Sex and Race, Volume I: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands: The Old World J. A. Rogers (1880-1966) Helga Rogers 1941 (Ninth Edition, 1967) 302 pages ISBN-13: 978-0960229406; ISBN 10: 096022940X Table of Contents I. RACE TODAY II. WHICH IS THE OLDEST RACE? III. THE MIXING OF BLACK AND WHITE IN THE ANCIENT…

  • Race Reconciled Re-Debunks Race – Anthropology 1.6 Living Anthropologically: Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility 2013-02-27 Jason Antrosio, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York In May 2009, the American Journal of Physical Anthropology published Race Reconciled, a special issue with cutting-edge work by biological anthropologists. These researchers have read the critique of Richard…

  • About Biracials Learning About African-American Culture or B.L.A.A.C. Biracials Learning About African-American Culture or B.L.A.A.C. 2013-06-18 Zebulon Miletsky, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University of New York The idea for this blog came from several discussions with students and young people who come from mixed-race backgrounds, especially so-called “white and black”…

  • Empathetic eye Agência FAPESP: News Agency of the Sao Paulo Research Foundation 2011-06-08 Fábio de Castro Agência FAPESP – In 1865, an expedition led by Swiss natural scientist Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) of Harvard University travelled around Brazil for 15 months to study the country. Among the voluntary collectors that participated in the expedition was a…

  • Masculinity and whiteness in the construction of the Brazilian Republic Agência FAPESP: News Agency of the São Paulo Research Foundation 2013-06-12 José Tadeu Arantes Sexual discipline and whitening of the population were the guidelines of the conservative modernization promoted by the elite, affirms study Agência FAPESP – Masculinity and whiteness were the ideals of the…

  • Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe Duke University Press 2012 256 pages 118 photographs, 10 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5074-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5056-9 Tina M. Campt, Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Africana Studies Program Barnard College In Image Matters, Tina M. Campt traces the emergence of…

  • Types of Mankind: or, Ethnological Researches, Based Upon the Ancient Monuments, Paintings, Sculptures, and Crania or Races and Upon their Natural, Geographical, Philological and Biblical History [Second Edition] Lippincott, Grambo & Co. 1854 738 pages J. C. Nott, M.D. Mobile, Alabama Geo. R. Gliddon, Egyptologist Former U.S. Consul to Egypt CONTENTS FRONTISPIECE — Portrait or…

  • imagining hybrid cities The State 2013-07-25 Tiana Reid I started this series on crossing and mixing by considering temporality and its hold on how we imagine hybridity. The recent discourse centered on the unshakable ‘browning’ or ‘beiging’ of mostly urban populations in the decades to come offers itself up through the prevailing ‘hybrid futures’ narrative.…

  • White-Race Problems: White Hispanic, White Black, Geraldo Rivera Living Anthropologically: Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility 2013-07-25 Jason Antrosio, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York A strange meme circulates, apparently fueled by Geraldo Rivera’s White Hispanic, Yellow Journalism. It goes like this: George Zimmerman is not really white, he’s Hispanic, and so the…

  • Trayvon Martin, Race and Anthropology Anthropology News American Anthropological Association 2013-07-19 Leith Mullings, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology City University of New York (and President of the American Anthropological Association) On February 26, 2012, 28-year-old George Zimmerman shot and killed an unarmed 17-year-old African American teenager who, after buying Skittles and iced tea at the local…