Category: Anthropology

  • Who Will You Let Me Be? Race, Ethnicity, and Me: Autobiographical Reflections by Trinity University Students Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas Fall 2008 Claire Murphy-Cook Race, Ethnicity, and Me is a collection of autobiographical essays written by Trinity University students as an assignment for a course taught by Professor David Spener in the Department of…

  • Human Genetic Diversity and the Nonexistence of Biological Races Human Biology Volume 75, Number 4, August 2003 pages 449-471 Rich Kittles, Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics University of Illinois, Chicago Jeffrey C. Long, Professor of Anthropology University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Sewall Wright’s population structure statistic, FST, measured among samples of world…

  • This article examines a controversial report that focused negatively on mixed heritage children born and raised in the city of Liverpool. The official title was: “Report on an Investigation into the Colour Problem in Liverpool and Other Ports.”  The social researcher was Muriel E. Fletcher, who had been trained in the Liverpool School of Social…

  • The Genetic Structure of Admixed Populations Genetics February 1, 1991 Volume 127, Number 2 pages 417–428 Jeffrey C. Long, Professor of Anthropology University of New Mexico, Albuquerque A method for simultaneously estimating the admixture proportions of a hybrid population and Wright’s fixation index, FST, for that hybrid is presented. It is shown that the variance…

  • The Mystery of Capital: Eurasian Entrepreneurs’ Socio-Cultural Strategies for Commercial Success in Early 20th-Century Hong Kong Asian Studies Review Volume 34, Issue 4, 2010 pages 467-487 DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2010.527919 Victor Zheng The University of Hong Kong Siu-Lun Wong The University of Hong Kong Unlike economic capital, which is visible and easy to calculate, social capital is…

  • Mixed Indians, Caboclos and Curibocas: Historical Analysis of a Process of Miscegenation; Rio Negro (Brazil), 18th and 19th Centuries Chapter in: Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment (2009) Springer Part I pages 55-68 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9283-1_4 Décio de Alencar Guzmán The author analyses the process of mixing (mestiçagem) in the Rio Negro region during the…

  • Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview (Fourth Edition) Westview Press July 2011 400 pages Trade paperback ISBN: 9780813345543 Audrey Smedley, Professor Emerita of Anthropology and African American Studies Virginia Commonwealth University Brian D. Smedley, Vice President and Director Health Policy Institute Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies In a sweeping…

  • Race Mixture in Hawaii Journal of Heredity Volume 10, Issue 1 (1919) pages 41-47 Vaughan MacCaughey College of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii THE CHINESE The   Hawaiian Islands   arc remarkable for the diversity of  races represented and for the varied conjugal race-mingling which has taken place in this tiny island world during the past hundred and fifty…

  • The Origins of the Afrikaners and their Language, 1652-1720: A Study in Miscegenation and Creole Race & Class Volume 15, Number 4 (April 1974) pages 461-495 DOI: 10.1177/030639687401500404 Ken Jordaan We are a bastard people with a bastard language. Ours is a bastard nature. That is good and fine. And like all bastards, uncertain of…

  • Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-first Century School for Advanced Research Press 2011 280 pages 1 map, 3 tables, 6 appendices, notes, references, index 7 x 10 Circe Dawn Sturm, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Texas, Austin In Becoming Indian, author Circe Sturm examines Cherokee identity politics and the phenomenon…