Category: Anthropology

  • Black Indian Slave Narratives John F. Blair, Publisher 2004 200 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-89587-298-2 Patrick Minges Few people realize that Native Americans were enslaved right alongside the African Americans in this country. Fewer still realize that many Native Americans owned African Americans and Native Americans from other tribes. Recently, historians have determined that of the…

  • (ANT/NAS 493): Mixed Blood: Looking at the Relationship Between Africans and Native Americans Creighton University Omaha, Nebraska Fall 2005 Rev. Raymond A. Bucko, S.J., Professor of Anthropology In this course the relationship between Africans and Native Americans will be explored.  “Africans and Native Americans worked as slaves and as free men together.  Both groups played important…

  • The Vanishing American Negro The American Mercury Volume LXIV, Number 278 (February 1947) pages 133-139 Ralph Linton (1893-1953), Professor of Anthropolgy Yale University In the question period following any talk on minority problems, someone invariably brings up the query, “What do anthropologists consider to be the long range solution of the Negro problem?” Though I…

  • Is the American Negro Becoming Lighter? An Analysis of the Sociological and Biological Trends American Sociological Review Volume 13, Number 4 (August, 1948) pages 437-443 William M. Kephart, Professor of Sociology University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia There is a belief in some quarters that there is a biological solution to the Negro problem; that is, in…

  • The Origins of Mixed Race Populations New African January 2005 Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts While rape played a huge part in the origins of Africa and the Diaspora’s mixed race populations, it is wrong to attribute it all to rape, argues Carina Ray. In the…

  • When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote: African-Native American Literature University of Illinois Press 2003 328 pages 6 x 9 in. Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-02819-9 Edited by: Jonathan Brennan, Professor of English Mission College, Santa Clara, California An exploration of the literature, history, and culture of people of mixed African-Native American descent An exploration of the literature, history,…

  • Fetishes and Monuments: Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20th Century Berghahn Books 2007 224 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-1-84545-363-3 Paberback ISBN: ISBN 978-1-84545-711-2 Roger Sansi, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology Goldsmith’s College, London One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomblé were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome…

  • As an introduction to this Special Issue of The Journal of Pan African Studies focusing on skin bleaching and global White supremacy, the purpose of this paper is to critically examine the symbolic significance of whiteness, particularly for and among African people, by outlining the history of global White supremacy, both politically and ideologically, discussing…

  • Indians and Diversity Indian Country Today Media Network 2012-05-03 Steve Russell, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Indiana University This term, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about affirmative action in university admissions, where my alma mater is on the side of diversity for a change. Most observers agree diversity is likely to…

  • Nineteenth-Century New Orleans and a Carnival of Women University of Florida 2006 72 pages Ragan Wicker A Thesis Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts The Carnival in New Orleans is historically the largest and longest annual public ritual…