Category: Anthropology

  • Black, White, Other: Racial categories are cultural constructs masquerading as biology Natural History Volume 103, Number 12 (December 1994) pages 32-35 Jonathan Marks, Professor of Anthropology University of North Carolina, Charlotte While reading the Sunday edition of the New York Times one morning last February, my attention was drawn by an editorial inconsistency. The article…

  • Negra & Beautiful: The Unique Challenges Faced By Afro-Latinas Latina 2011-11-29 Damarys Ocaña, Freelance Journalist The frustrating ironies of being Afro-Latina hit Yuly Marshall with stunning regularity: At work at a Miami hospital, Hispanic patients of the Cuban-born radiology technician usually assume she’s African American, asking her, “Where did you learn to speak Spanish like…

  • The Long Shadow of the British Empire: The Ongoing Legacies of Race and Class in Zambia Palgrave Macmillan 2012-01-03 304 pges 13.800 x 8.250 inches, includes 10 pgs illus ISBN: 978-0-230-34018-3, ISBN10: 0-230-34018-0 Juliette Bridgette Milner-Thornton, Adjunct Research Fellow Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia The Long Shadow of the British Empire explores the lived experiences of…

  • The Retreat of Scientific Racism: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars Cambridge University Press September 1993 396 pages 228 x 152 mm ISBN: 9780521458757 DOI: 10.2277/0521458757 Elazar Barkan, Professor of International and Public Affairs Columbia University This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation…

  • Results of Inbreeding on Norfolk Island Science  Magazine Volume 65, Number 1693 (1927-06-10) page x DOI: 10.1126/science.65.1693.0x-s Providing the original stock is sound, inbreeding among human beings results in no deterioration, physical or mental. Nor does mixture of widely differing races produce an inferior type.  Such are the conclusions of Dr. Harry L. Shapiro, ethnologist…

  • Race Problems in America Science Magazine Volume 29, Number 752 (1909-05-28) pages 839-849 DOI: 10.1126/science.29.752.839 Franz Boas The development of the American nation through amalgamation of diverse European nationalities and the ever-increasing heterogeneity of the component elements of four people have called attention to the anthropological and biological problems involved in this process. I propose…

  • Methods of Racial Analysis Science Magazine Volume 63, Number 1621 (1926-01-22) pages 75-81 DOI: 10.1126/science.63.1621.75 E. A. Hooton Significance of the Term “Race” The term “race” as applied to man is commonly employed with no accurate and well-defined meaning. One often sees references to the “white race,” the “Jewish race,” the “Latin race,” the “Irish…

  • The African Presence in Brazil: Slavery, Resistance, Miscegenation and Strategic Popularization of Afro-Brazilian Music Culture Kalamazoo College 2004 69 pages Danielle Dubois Flax This thesis intends to investigate the history of slavery in Brazil, its effects on the demographic, psychological and political reality of Afro-Brazilians, and most essentially: how representations of Afro-Brazilian music and culture…

  • Creole Is, Creole Ain’t: Diachronic and Synchronic Attitudes toward Creole Identity in Southern Louisiana Language in Society Volume 29, Number 2 (June, 2000) pages 237-258 Sylvie Dubois, Gabriel Muir Professor of French Studies Louisiana State University Megan Melançon, Associate Professor of English Georgia College Creole identity in Louisiana acquired diverse meanings for several ethnic groups…

  • Islands and autochthons: Coloureds, space and belonging in Rhodesia and Zimbabwe (Part 1) Journal of Social Archaeology Volume 4, Number 3 (October 2004) pages 405-426 DOI: 10.1177/1469605304046423 Julia Katherine Seirlis Department of Anthropology University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa This article, the first in a two-part series, examines the ramifications of the complex relationships between race…