Category: Anthropology

  • Racial Democracy in Brazilian Marriage: Toward a Typology of Negro-White Intermarriage in Five Brazilian Communities The American Catholic Sociological Review Volume 21, Number 2 (Summer, 1960) pages 146-164 Austin J. Staley, O. S. B. Revised version of paper read at the Twenty-first Annual Convention of the American Catholic Sociological Society, Mundelein College, Chicago, Illinois, August…

  • Rosario Dawson and the Ambiguous Blackness of Latinidad antenna 2012-08-05 Keara Goin As has become abundantly clear to me over the course of my research, in the context of contemporary popular U.S. racial discourse, one is either Latina/o or Black, not both. Moreover, we see this phenomenon replicated in U.S. cinema, where characters played by…

  • Who Gets To Decide Who Is Native American? Tell Me More National Public Radio 2012-08-09 Michel Martin, Host Rob Capriccioso, Washington Bureau Chief Indian Country Today Media Network Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan A controversy about identity has erupted in the race for…

  • Who Is Jamaica? The New York Times 2012-08-05 Carolyn Cooper, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica DURING last week’s independence festivities, I took out my prized commemorative plate. It was a gift from the mother of a long-ago boyfriend who, incomprehensibly, complained constantly that his mother loved me…

  • Indigenous Nationalities and the Mestizo Dilemma Indian Country Today Media Network 2012-07-24 Duane Champagne, Professor of Sociology University of California, Los Angeles Mestizo. Métis. Mixed bloods. Though clearly different, all these terms are used to racially classify people with Indian ancestry. However, the definitions vary—and none is wholly satisfactory.   Part of the problem is…

  • A class of free Negroes existed in America almost from the time that they were first introduced into the Virginia colony in 1619. Contrary to popular belief, the free class may even be said to be prior in origin to the slave class, since the first Negroes brought to America, did not have the status…

  • The chief interest of the author in the Negro problem has centered about the matter of racial intermixture—the Mulatto problem—and most of his writings have had to do with this evil.

  • How Jews Became White Folks and What That says about Race in America Rutgers University Press 1998-10-01 272 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-2589-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-2590-7 Karen Brodkin, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology University of California, Los Angeles A wide-ranging and provocative assessment of how race, class, and gender shape social identity in the United States. We…

  • Obama is a Descendant of Nefertiti & Confucius Too Dominion of New York 2012-07-31 Alondra Nelson, Associate Professor of Sociology Columbia University There was breaking news yesterday in the lively world of presidential genealogy. Barack Obama–who is regarded as an inauthentic African-American by some because his late mother, Stanley Anne Dunham, was a white woman…

  • Almost White Macmillan 1963 212 pages Original Classication ID: E184.A1 B53 Source: University of Michigan via The Hathi Trust Digital Library Brewton Berry Contents Preface 1. The Myth of the Vanishing Indian 2. Where Are They? 3. Who Are They? 4. What the Whites Believe 5. What the Negro Thinks 6. Etiquette 7. How They…