Category: Anthropology

  • A Statistical Octoroon Los Angeles Herald Volume XXIX, Number 2 (1901-10-03) page 4, columns 6-7 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection The Average American Seven Parts White and One Part Colored The average adult American is a statistical octoroon, says Dr. Henry Gannett In Everybody’s Magazine. If the blood in the veins of all our of…

  • Internal migration and ethnic division: the case of Palmas, Brazil The Australian Journal of Anthropology Volume 22, Issue 2, August 2011 pages 203–219 DOI: 10.1111/j.1757-6547.2011.00134.x Mieke Schrooten Anthropology Department Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven Starting from the observation that Brazilian history has led to the development of a very distinct system of race relations, this paper focuses…

  • The longstanding attempt to legislate Indigenous-Asian relations out of existence continues to cast its shadow today. Cathy Freeman is identified as Australia’s most famous Indigenous sportswoman, but she is also of Chinese descent.

  • Notes on the Racial Contours of Visual Culture in São Paulo, Brazil Flow Volume 17 (2012-12-18) Reighan Gillam, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan In this three part series of essays I will consider some of the aspects of race and visuality in Brazil. This article will lay out…

  • Mixed Relations: Asian-Aboriginal Contact in North Australia University of Western Australia Publishing March 2006 384 pages 250 x 170 mm Hardcover ISBN: 9781920694418 Regina Ganter, Professor, School of Humanities Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Awards Won – 2007 NSW Premier’s Awards (Community and Regional History Prize) Won – 2007 Ernest Scott History Prize Australian histories too…

  • “Chinese Cubans” shows how Chinese migration, intermarriage, and assimilation are central to Cuban history and national identity during a key period of transition from slave to wage labor and from colony to nation. On a broader level, López draws out implications for issues of race, national identity, and transnational migration, especially along the Pacific rim.

  • Contact of Races in Brazil Social Forces Volume 19, Number 4 (May, 1941) pages 533-538 DOI: 10.2307/2571211 Arthur Ramos University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro BRAZIL, as well as other American countries, was originally a land of conquests; the growth of its population has developed by the contact or confluence of European settlers with the…

  • Black and Bengali In These Times 2013-03-02 Fatima Shaik A new book traces the hidden story of a mixed-race community. The federal census taker comes every 10 years and, for most people in the United States, this has little consequence. But not where I lived, in New Orleans, just outside the historic district of Tremé.…

  • White Without Soap: Philanthropy, Caste and Exclusion in Colonial Victoria 1835-1888, A Political Economy of Race University of Melbourne Custom Book Centre 2010 318 pages Paperback ISBN: 0980759420, 9780980759426 Marguerita Stephens Explores the connections between nineteenth century imperial anthropology, racial ‘science’ and the imposition of colonising governance on the Aborigines of Port Phillip/Victoria between 1835 and…

  • Race-Crossing Sacramento Daily Union Volume 2, Number 4 (1890-06-08) page 1, column 4 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection Lima, the capital of Peru, is pronounced to be the headquarters of all the world’s mongreldom. Its population is the product of three centuries of race-crossing, and a scientific investigator finds easily distinguishable among the inhabitants the…