Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Anthropology
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Race Finished: Book Review American Scientist April-May, 2012 Jan Sapp, Professor of Biology and History York University, Toronto Race?: Debunking a Scientific Myth. Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle. xviii + 226 pp. Texas A&M University Press, 2011. Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture. Edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Kathleen Sloan. xiv +…
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In this intriguing and highly accessible book, physical anthropologist Ian Tattersall and geneticist Rob DeSalle, both senior scholars from the American Museum of Natural History, explain what human races actually are—and are not—and place them within the wider perspective of natural diversity.
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Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory Left Coast Press March 2007 276 pages 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 978-1-59874-278-7 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-59874-279-4 eBook ISBN: 978-1-61132-467-9 eBook Rental (180 Days) ISBN: 978-1-61132-467-9 Edited by Charles Stewart Department of Anthropology University College London Social scientists have used the term “Creolization” to evoke cultural fusion and the emergence of new…
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An Estimate of Assimilation Rate of Mixed-Blood Aborigines in New South Wales Oceania Volume 32, Number 3 (March, 1962) pages 187-190 J. Le Gay Brereton Some anthropologists have suggested that the Aboriginal population of New South Wales (very largely mixed-bloods) will prefer integration to assimilation. It is therefore important to obtain some estimate of the…
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Examining the Legacy of European Names in the Elmina-Cape Coast Area of Ghana Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies Volume 1, Number 3 (2007) 22 pages Amma Kyerewaa Akrofi Texas Tech University Lawrence Owusu-Ansah Texas Tech University The prevalence of European family and place names in Fante areas of Ghana is one of the best known…
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Melungeon DNA Study Reveals Ancestry, Upsets ‘A Whole Lot Of People’ The Associated Press 2012-05-24 Travis Loller Jack Goins poses with a photo dated to have been taken in 1898 of his step-great-great grandfather George Washington Goins, who died in 1817, left, and great-great grandmother, Susan Minor-Goins who died in 1813 at the Hawkins County…