Category: Anthropology

  • The Evolution and Genetics of Latin American Populations Cambridge University Press December 2001 528 pages 12 b/w illus. 128 tables 228 x 152 mm Hardback ISBN: 9780521652759 Paperback ISBN: ISBN:9780521022392 eBook ISBN: 9780511837128 Francisco M. Salzano Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biociências Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Maria C. Bortolini Universidade Federal…

  • Referential Ambiguity in the Calculus of Brazilian Racial Identity Southwestern Journal of Anthropology Volume 26, Number 1 (Spring, 1970) pages 1-14 Marvin Harris (1927-2001) Categorizations elicited from 100 Brazilian informants through the use of a standardized deck of facial drawings suggests that the cognitive domain of racial identity in Brazil is characterized by a high…

  • Racial Identity in Brazil Luso-Brazilian Review Volume 1, Number 2 (Winter, 1964) pages 21-28 Marvin Harris (1927-2001) According to the 1950 census, the population of Brazil consisted of 61.66% brancos, 26.54% pardos, and 10.6% pretos. In the I.B.G.E.’s 1961 review of these facts, the following caution is registered: In order to avoid erroneous interpretation, it…

  • This volume explores the lives and activities of people of African descent in Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the twenty-first century.

  • Spaniards, ‘pardos’, and the missing mestizos: identities and racial categories in the early Hispanic Caribbean New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids Volume 71, Numbers 1&2 (1997) pages 5-19 Stuart B. Schwartz, George Burton Adams Professor of History Yale University Traces the history of the mestizos, the descendants of Spanish-Indian contacts during the early…

  • Native American Roots in Black America Run Deep Indian Voices 2013-02-04 David A. Love Do you have Indian in your family? That’s a common question asked in the black community. Many African- Americans lay claim to Native American ancestry, and yet very few blacks have taken the steps to research this part of the history,…

  • Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool Princeton University Press 2005 312 pages 6 x 9 ISBN: 978-1-4008-2641-4 Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hunter College of the City University of New York The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its…

  • The Trend of the Race: A Study of Present Tendencies in the Biological Development of Civilized Mankind Harcourt, Brace and Company 1921 396 pages (Digitized by Google) Samuel J. Holmes (1868-1964), Ph.D., Professor of Zoology University of California, Berkeley CONTENTS I. An Introductory Orientation II. The Hereditary Basis III. The Inheritance of Mental Defects and…

  • Exactly How ‘Black’ Is Black America? The Root 2013-02-11 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research Harvard University 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Find out the percentage of African ancestry in black Americans. (The Root) — 100 Amazing…

  • Far back in the dim vista of ages, anterior to the current ideas of Noah or Adam, Egyptian records show that there were four great race types, or groups; and clear and distinct as they were orginally portrayed, so have they come down to this our day. Not one has ever been merged into another.